The Black List 2016: Hollywood’s Best Unproduced Screenplays (Updating Live)
Hollywood’s Best Unproduced Screenplays (Updating Live)
Script about Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp’s “insane” relationship among early entries
The Black List 2016 is here, an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
A-list writers, showrunners and stars like Peter Dinklage, David Benioff, Armie Hammer, Eva Longoria and Domnhall Gleeson began announcing the scripts via social media videos posted on Monday — with an entry firing off every two minutes.
Early selections included a script take on the “insane” relationship between Monica Lewsinki and Linda Tripp, a true story of a woman sailing through a hurricane and a new take on the Fairy Godmother trope.
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The list will update live throughout the morning, and TheWrap will add scripts and loglines as they are posted.
Stay tuned for commentary from Black List founder Leonard Franklin.
The Time Traveler’s La Ronde
A story of a man who experiences love at all ages as he travels through time.
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Based on true events in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a young CIA agent is assigned to the Miami field office to become a case officer for a charismatic Cuban ambassador offering to help eliminate Fidel Castro.
The apocalypse is a blessing in disguise for one recluse until one other companion arrives.
Fairy Godmother
Fay is an in-demand fairy godmother hired by a “mind-boggling gorgeous” teenage client to bag a handsome prince.
At the height of the Cold War, an Air Force pilot vanishes over Sierra Nevada mountains.
Four female coworkers get lost in the wilderness when they are on a team building activity and they have to work together to survive.
Tasked with finding a game changing take of the sixth Jason Bourne movie, Tom Milton goes down the rabbit hole of cracking the story, with help of a professor and Bourne.
Based on the author’s own father’s escape from Sarajevo in 1992, actor Armie Hammer described the project as a heartbreaking tale of a man and his family.
A freshmen film exec at odds with the state of his industry is forced to work with the one person who is making him question everything.
Graham Moore (Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, “The Imitation Game”)
An attorney who takes on Thomas Edison in the legal battle over who would come to light America.
“The Post” is the true story about how about a Washington Post reporter and her editor overcame their differences to publish the story about the Pentagon Papers… which would change their lives.
The script explores the history of the universe and our species that questions the nature of life, love and mortality.
A dystopian take on Victor Hugo’s classic “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” sees a gypsy revolutionary and a hunchback take on an isolationist government.
After an alien invasion takes over the minds of humankind, one survivor know as “man” must make peace with the alien force to fight a greater evil.