2018 Blacklist Screenplays (Best Unproduced Screenplays)

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The 2018 Black List Pinpoints This Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays

The 2018 Black List is here. The annual compilation surveyed over 300 film executives, who voted on their favorite scripts of the past year that have not yet been produced. Previous years’ entries have included movies like Argo, Whiplash, Zodiac, In Bruges, Juno, The Wolf of Wall Street, Looper, The Social Network, The Prestige, There Will Be Blood, Inglourious Basterds, The King’s Speech, Take This Waltz, Arrival, John Wick, and Manchester by the Sea. Could your new favorite movie be lying in wait in the list below?

The 2018 Black List
To be absolutely clear, this is a list of “most liked” titles, not necessarily “the best” scripts in the pile. Sometimes high concept scripts like Yes Man will end up on the list, even though they ultimately result in movies that are largely forgettable. But there are always some major winners in here, and as Alfred Hitchcock once said, “To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.”

After looking at this list, I’m definitely looking forward to Nobody Nothing Nowhere, Queen & Slim, Harry’s All Night Hamburgers, Meet Cute, and Kill the Leopard. Read the full list below and let us know the ones that pique your interest the most.
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These were the most interesting ones to me:

King Richard

Zach Baylin

The true story of Richard Williams, the hard-nosed and uncompromising father of tennis prodigies turned superstars, Venus and Serena Williams.

Dead Dads Club

Amanda Idoko

A high schooler, in an effort to find a more interesting story for her college scholarship application, lies about her father’s recent death. But when the father tries to take advantage of the lie by faking his own death, the high schooler’s nemesis investigates, and bodies start piling up.

Mamba

Mike Schneider

A Chronicle of the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case in the early 2000s, based on reports, court transcripts, and police interviews.

Queen & Slim

Lena Waithe

The story of a black man and a black woman whose first date goes awry after they are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop. After killing the police officer in self-defense, they decide against turning themselves in and go on the run.

CI-34

Sascha Penn

The FBI pairs a young African-American agent with Greg Scarpa, the most notorious hitman in mafia history, to solve the murder of a civil rights activist in 1966 Mississippi.

The Defender

Nicholas Mariani

At the height of Jim Crow, a courageous black attorney with the audacious name of Scipio Africanus Jones risks his life and career to defend eighty-seven men wrongfully accused of murder, taking the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court and achieving a stunning victory that will change American history forever. Based on a true story.
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Link to all the scripts:
Black List 2018 – Google Drive
 
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The 16th annual The Black List was announced this morning by Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, and below is the rankings of hot unproduced (or on the verge of being produced) screenplays. Leading this year’s list with 29 votes is Sophie Dawson’s Headhunter which follows a high-functioning cannibal who selects his victims based on their Instagram popularity. However, he finds his habits shaken by a man who wants to be eaten.

Many of the scripts on the list have moved forward and are in the works including Randall Green’s coming of age comedy The Black Belt (15 votes), which has Chris Pratt starring and producing, for Monarch Media. Meanwhile, Taraji P. Henson is set to star in and direct Cat Wilkins’ Two-Faced (25 votes) for Bron Studios. This will mark the Oscar-nominee’s first time in the director’s chair for a feature.

'Desus & Mero's Desus Nice And The Kid Mero To Reveal 16th Annual Black List
Apple landed Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka’s Sharper (17 votes) and will partner with A24 on the feature which will star Julianne Moore as a con artist in Manhattan’s billionaire echelon. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kiernan Shipka and Cole Sprouse are attached to star in Aaron Katz’s Blood Ties (10 votes), who is set to direct. Legendary Entertainment has already acquired Crosby Selander’s debut spec script Bring Me Back (22 votes)
Paramount, as we first told you, made a preemptive mid-six against seven-figure deal on Jonathan Stokes’ Murder In The White House (9 votes) with Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe to produce for Original Film.

There’s also Kat Wood’s Ruby (7 votes) which was recently snatched up for development by Amazon and 87North and Fight or Flight (8 Votes) which was also newly acquired by Thunder Road.

Also, this just in from Deadline Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming soon after today’s rundown was announced: Amazon Studios has picked the Field Trip Productions-produced action-comedy Uncle Wick (8 votes). Pic is to be written by Gabe Delahaye, and will be directed by Will Graham.

The list has historically had a track record of great projects that have continued on to notable success and critical impact, i.e. Queen & Slim (from Black List 2018), I, Tonya, All the Money in the World, Bird Box, The Post and Oscar nominee Roman J. Israel, Esq. Since The Black List was released in 2005, 440+ Black List scripts have been produced grossing $30 billion at the global box office.
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The Black List 2020 Unveiled: Sophie Dawson’s ‘Headhunter’ Tops List – Deadline
 
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THE SAUCE
Chaz Hawkins
A depressed, selfish black man fights for his life after taking a job at a white-owned beauty parlor, whose monstrous owners concocted a wildly popular shampoo that requires a sickening ingredient.



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EMERGENCY
KD Davila
Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency.
MANAGEMENT – MANAGEMENT 360
MANAGERS – REILLY MARTIN, MARC MOUNIER, CLIFFORD MURRAY
FINANCIER – AMAZON STUDIOS
PRODUCERS – TEMPLE HILL ENTERTAINMENT

:why:
FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
Emma Dudley
Twenty-four-year-old, quiet, self-conscious Hazel has struggled with her sexuality ever since her conservative dad walked in on her kissing a girl at a middle school sleepover and flipped his absolute shyt. On the way back to her hometown for her dad’s wedding, Hazel gets drunk and makes out with an older, attractive female flight attendant. She’s thrilled to have moved past her hang-ups and had some fun until she arrives home and realizes that the flight attendant is her dad’s fiance.
AGENCY – THE GERSH AGENCY
AGENTS – SAM MASARU SEKOFF, AMANDA JO SMITH
MANAGEMENT – WRIT LARGE
MANAGERS – LAUREN DINELEY
PRODUCERS – LORD MILLER


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LURKER
Alex Russell
An obsessed fan maneuvers his way into the inner circle of his hip hop idol and will stop at nothing to stay in.
 
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Dr. Narcisse said:
:gucci:
THE SAUCE
Chaz Hawkins
A depressed, selfish black man fights for his life after taking a job at a white-owned beauty parlor, whose monstrous owners concocted a wildly popular shampoo that requires a sickening ingredient.



:jbhmm:
EMERGENCY
KD Davila
Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency.
MANAGEMENT – MANAGEMENT 360
MANAGERS – REILLY MARTIN, MARC MOUNIER, CLIFFORD MURRAY
FINANCIER – AMAZON STUDIOS
PRODUCERS – TEMPLE HILL ENTERTAINMENT

:why:
FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
Emma Dudley
Twenty-four-year-old, quiet, self-conscious Hazel has struggled with her sexuality ever since her conservative dad walked in on her kissing a girl at a middle school sleepover and flipped his absolute shyt. On the way back to her hometown for her dad’s wedding, Hazel gets drunk and makes out with an older, attractive female flight attendant. She’s thrilled to have moved past her hang-ups and had some fun until she arrives home and realizes that the flight attendant is her dad’s fiance.
AGENCY – THE GERSH AGENCY
AGENTS – SAM MASARU SEKOFF, AMANDA JO SMITH
MANAGEMENT – WRIT LARGE
MANAGERS – LAUREN DINELEY
PRODUCERS – LORD MILLER


:lupe:
LURKER
Alex Russell
An obsessed fan maneuvers his way into the inner circle of his hip hop idol and will stop at nothing to stay in.
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Some of these seem dope this year. Gonna post the link to the google drive with all the scripts once it's sent out. Should probably take a few days
 
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