The Black List 2012: Screenplay Roster
By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief |
Monday December 17, 2012 @ 9:49am PSTTags: The Black List
http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/blacklist__120522215407.jpgOnce again, Deadline Hollywood will be the first to post in its entirety The Black List, which for the uninitiated is film executive Franklin Leonard’s hot unproduced screenplay pecking order which he began in 2004. (For now, here are the scripts in no particular order as they are announced on Twitter. Compiled every year from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives, each contributes the names of up to 10 of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, the current year and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. (This year, Leonard said more than 290 film executives voted). The Black List does catapult dozens of scripts into production and screenwriters out of oblivion. Diablo Cody’s Juno, Nancy Oliver’s Lars And The Real Girl and Scott Neustader’s and Michael Weber’s 500 Days Of Summer are just some of the screenplays which appeared on The Black List and then were made. I’ve noticed that it’s also a “big dick” measuring contest for the Hollywood agencies and their motion picture lit departments. Problem is, some screenwriters think this list isn’t on the up-and-up and accuse junior studio execs and assistants along with self-interested agents and managers of getting together to push their own clients on projects even if already abandoned. Also, if you spot inaccuracies, take it up with Leonard: I do not alter his list. Anyway, climb off the ledge if you’re not on The Black List. And, if you did make the cut, then congratulations:
JOJO RABBIT by Taika Waititi
THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM by Tyler Marceca
THE KILLING SPREE by Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson
OUR NAME IS ADAM by T.S. Nowlin
DEVILS AT PLAY by James Dilapo
HEY, STELLA! by Tom Shephard
BLACK BOX by David Guggenheim
TITANS OF PARK ROW by Mitch Akselrad
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY by April Prosser
FLOWER by Alex McAulay
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Mark Hogan
CHERRIES by Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe
HIBERNATION by Will Frank, Geneva Robertson-Dworet
EL TIGRE by Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley
THE JUDGE by Bill Dubuque
GOODBYE, FELIX CHESTER by Max Taxe
WHO FRAMED TOMMY CALLAHAN? by Harry Kellerman
THE BROKEN by John Glosser
KING OF HEISTS by Will Staples
BLEEDING KANSAS by Russell Sommer, Dan Frey
THE LIGHTHOUSE by Eric Kirsten
EX BOYFRIEND OF THE BRIDE by Matt Hausfater
THE OUTSKIRTS by Dominique Ferarri, Suzanne Wrubel
PESTE by Barbara Marshall
THE PAPER MAN by Sean O’Keefe
**** MARRY KILL by Neel Shah, Alex Blagg
MAN OF TOMORROW by Jeremy Slater
MONSOON by Matt Ackley
MURDER CITY by Will Simmons
UNTITLED COPS SCRIPT by Blake McCormick
COME AND FIND ME by Zack Whedon
THE EQUALIZER by Richard Wenk
TRANSCENDENCE by Jack Paglen
GLIMMER by Carter Blanchard
WHIPLASH by Damien Chazelle
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS by Sean Armstrong
THE HOOVERVILLE DEAD by Brantley Aufill
STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA by Nikole Beckwith
FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA by Austin Reynolds
CLIVE by Natasha Pincus
COMANCHERIA by Taylor Sheridan
THE BALLAD OF PABLO ESCOBAR by Matt Aldrich
OUT OF STATE by Eric Pearson
WUNDERKIND by Patrick Aison
THE FINAL BROADCAST by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe
MIDNIGHT AT NOON by Nathaniel Halpern
AMERICATOWN by Ben Poole
GEORGE by Jeff Shakoor
SOMACELL by Ashleigh Powell
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS by Brad Desch
By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief |
Monday December 17, 2012 @ 9:49am PSTTags: The Black List
http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/blacklist__120522215407.jpgOnce again, Deadline Hollywood will be the first to post in its entirety The Black List, which for the uninitiated is film executive Franklin Leonard’s hot unproduced screenplay pecking order which he began in 2004. (For now, here are the scripts in no particular order as they are announced on Twitter. Compiled every year from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives, each contributes the names of up to 10 of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, the current year and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. (This year, Leonard said more than 290 film executives voted). The Black List does catapult dozens of scripts into production and screenwriters out of oblivion. Diablo Cody’s Juno, Nancy Oliver’s Lars And The Real Girl and Scott Neustader’s and Michael Weber’s 500 Days Of Summer are just some of the screenplays which appeared on The Black List and then were made. I’ve noticed that it’s also a “big dick” measuring contest for the Hollywood agencies and their motion picture lit departments. Problem is, some screenwriters think this list isn’t on the up-and-up and accuse junior studio execs and assistants along with self-interested agents and managers of getting together to push their own clients on projects even if already abandoned. Also, if you spot inaccuracies, take it up with Leonard: I do not alter his list. Anyway, climb off the ledge if you’re not on The Black List. And, if you did make the cut, then congratulations:
JOJO RABBIT by Taika Waititi
THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM by Tyler Marceca
THE KILLING SPREE by Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson
OUR NAME IS ADAM by T.S. Nowlin
DEVILS AT PLAY by James Dilapo
HEY, STELLA! by Tom Shephard
BLACK BOX by David Guggenheim
TITANS OF PARK ROW by Mitch Akselrad
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY by April Prosser
FLOWER by Alex McAulay
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Mark Hogan
CHERRIES by Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe
HIBERNATION by Will Frank, Geneva Robertson-Dworet
EL TIGRE by Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley
THE JUDGE by Bill Dubuque
GOODBYE, FELIX CHESTER by Max Taxe
WHO FRAMED TOMMY CALLAHAN? by Harry Kellerman
THE BROKEN by John Glosser
KING OF HEISTS by Will Staples
BLEEDING KANSAS by Russell Sommer, Dan Frey
THE LIGHTHOUSE by Eric Kirsten
EX BOYFRIEND OF THE BRIDE by Matt Hausfater
THE OUTSKIRTS by Dominique Ferarri, Suzanne Wrubel
PESTE by Barbara Marshall
THE PAPER MAN by Sean O’Keefe
**** MARRY KILL by Neel Shah, Alex Blagg
MAN OF TOMORROW by Jeremy Slater
MONSOON by Matt Ackley
MURDER CITY by Will Simmons
UNTITLED COPS SCRIPT by Blake McCormick
COME AND FIND ME by Zack Whedon
THE EQUALIZER by Richard Wenk
TRANSCENDENCE by Jack Paglen
GLIMMER by Carter Blanchard
WHIPLASH by Damien Chazelle
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS by Sean Armstrong
THE HOOVERVILLE DEAD by Brantley Aufill
STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA by Nikole Beckwith
FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA by Austin Reynolds
CLIVE by Natasha Pincus
COMANCHERIA by Taylor Sheridan
THE BALLAD OF PABLO ESCOBAR by Matt Aldrich
OUT OF STATE by Eric Pearson
WUNDERKIND by Patrick Aison
THE FINAL BROADCAST by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe
MIDNIGHT AT NOON by Nathaniel Halpern
AMERICATOWN by Ben Poole
GEORGE by Jeff Shakoor
SOMACELL by Ashleigh Powell
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS by Brad Desch
