The 12th edition of "The Black List" features 73 unproduced screenplays. Here are the next 33, indexed alphabetically, from M to Z.
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Read and download nearly all of the "Black List: 2016" screenplays. We have 73 of the 73 selected scripts from this particular year.
Four Your Consideration, we have the final 34 scripts listed and indexed alphabetically, from M through Z, for quick access. From Joseph J. Greenberg's and David Robert Mitchell's "Man Alive", to Zach Dean's "Voyagers", and everything in between.
If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2016" scripts were chosen by more than 250 film-industry executives.
What is "The Black List" you ask? To find out how it all works, scroll down a little bit.
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Consider the name ironic. This isn't a list of scripts written by those who are unwelcome in the industry. Rather, "The Black List" is a compilation of "most liked" unproduced screenplays from a certain year. Screenwriters, young and old, repped or voiceless, submit their works for consideration.
Annually, since 2005, film industry executives read hundreds of screenplays and choose which ones are their favorite. Referred to as a "mention", favored scripts with the most mentions are featured on, in this regard, the "Black List: 2016".
Written by: Joseph J. Greenberg | David Robert Mitchell
Mentions: 14
After an alien invasion takes over the minds of humankind, one survivor known as "Man" must make peace with the alien force to fight a greater evil.
Written by: Shay Hatten
Mentions: 15
An outlandish, surreal imagining of how in 1985 Stephen King wrote and directed his horror classic MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.
Written by: Jade Bartlett
Mentions: 6
A precocious young writer becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming of age drama that examines the blurred lines of emotional connectivity between professor and protégé, child and adult.
Written by: Chai Hecht
Mentions: 6
The true story of Marvin Glass, brilliant, charismatic, self-loathing, paranoid, demanding – and probably the greatest toy inventor of all time.
Written by: Alex R. Johnson
Mentions: 12
When Angie witnesses the betrayal and murder of her father during a smuggler’s drop, the vigilant and determined young woman calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible.
Written by: Steve Desmond | Michael Sherman
Mentions: 8
Inspired by actual events from a phenomenon that occurred in 1974, a young married couple discover a mysterious metallic orb in the woods near their house following a meteor shower. While the unusual object dazzles the couple by exhibiting some awe-inspiring properties, its true purposes are revealed to be far more sinister than they could ever imagine.
Written by: Matthew Orton
Mentions: 7
Twenty four hours inside the British Prime Minister’s abode at 10 Downing Street.
Written by: Kate Trefry
Mentions: 17 (14th overall in 2016)
Based on true events in Anchorage, Alaska in 1966, a teen girl attempts to sneak into the hotel where the Beatles are staying to lose her virginity to George Harrison.
Written by: April Prosser
Mentions: 9
Four dysfunctional female coworkers get lost in the wilderness during a team-building trip and must work together in order to survive.
Written by: Justin Shady
Mentions: 10
With Nazi agents attempting to stop the production of a film that is poking fun at Hitler, an FBI agent and an LAPD detective must team up to protect a drunk and angry Charlie Chaplin from being kidnapped.
Written by: Tom Cartier
Mentions: 11
A look inside the tortuous drama of Donald Trump’s first Manhattan real estate deal, his relationships with troubled older brother Freddy and famed fixer Roy Cohn, and how they all created the Trump of today.
Written by: Jenny Halper
Mentions: 8
Written by: Pete Bridges
Mentions: 7
Finding themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a newly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.
Written by: Lucas Carter
Mentions: 7
A famous top cop wakes up twenty years after a shootout and is reinstated to solve the case that killed his old partner. Only problem: he’s a bull in a China shop, and 2016 is a very different time than the 1990s world he’s used to. To teach him the ropes, he’s paired with his old partner’s son, a risk averse traffic cop.
Written by: Alyssa Hill
Mentions: 7
Based on a true story set in 1960s New York, a journalist finds and investigates a woman whom he believes is married to a Nazi in hiding. Their relationship results in the first ever extradition of an American citizen for war crimes.
Written by: Topher Rhys-Lawrence
Mentions: 8
Defying an isolationist, fear-mongering government, a gypsy revolutionary, a mutinous soldier, and a deaf hunchback become the champions of human tolerance and the symbols for a peaceful future in a dystopian revision of Victor Hugo’s novel.
Written by: Chris Bremner
Mentions: 13
Set in the 1980s, based on the true story of a man who went from star DEA agent to convicted drug trafficker in the worst corruption scandal in DEA history.
Written by: Kathy Charles
Mentions: 15
Living with his wife and child in a trailer while working as a janitor, Stephen King struggles with alcoholism and his own dark history as he attempts to complete Carrie.
Written by: Graham Moore
Mentions: 10
Attorney Paul Cravath takes on Thomas Edison in a legal battle to determine whether Edison or his rival George Westinghouse will provide the electricity to light America.
Written by: Ben Bolea
Mentions: 18 (13th overall in 2016)
Written by: Tony Tost
Mentions: 35 (3rd overall in 2016)
The true story of an underdog rower trying to make it into the 1984 Olympics, told through the story of his relationships with his coach, his father, his fiancée, and with competition itself.
Written by: Tom Dean
Mentions: 18 (13th overall in 2016)
An exploration of relationships as a man witnesses different types of love across the ages.
Written by: Michael Schatz
Mentions: 10
The extraordinary true story of Johanna "Hannie" Schaft, a young woman who dropped out of college to join the Dutch Resistance during WWII, eventually becoming one of their most talented assassins and one of the Nazis’ most wanted enemies.
Written by: Charlie Kesslering
Mentions: 9
When a socially awkward engineer creates an android to fill in for her, things go awry when it becomes self actualized.
Written by: Chris Urch
Mentions: 10
An emotionally charged depiction of the six months leading up to one of Alexander McQueen’s greatest shows, probing both his personal and professional personas.
Written by: Cat Vasko
Mentions: 11
A handsome prince falls in love with a commoner, so her fairy Godmother turns her in to a perfect princess. But when the spell works a little too well, the prince embarks on a quest to reverse it, not realizing that he’s endangering the entire fairy tale universe.
Written by: Seth Spector
Mentions: 22 (8th overall in 2016)
A frustrated film exec at odds with the state of his industry is forced to work with the one person who is making him question everything.
Written by: Zach Dean
Mentions: 28 (5th overall in 2018)
The cosmic love story of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.
