The Black List 2013

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http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/2013-black-list-best-screenplays-full-list/

Black List 2013: Full Screenplay List
By THE DEADLINE TEAM

UPDATED WITH VOTES, LOGLINES & REPS: The annual Black List today revealed the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted on by over 250 film execs. A total of 72 scripts made the cut in the 2013 edition of the yearly ranking compiled since 2004 by Franklin Leonard, with Andrew Sodroski’s Holland, Michigan receiving the most votes of all. As usual there are plenty of familiar names on this list, including Jason Fuchs for his Pan screenplay that’s set up at Warner Bros with Joe Wright aboard to direct, and Jason Dean Hall’s American Sniper, another Warners project. Black List alumni that have gone on to Oscar and box office glory include Argo, The King’s Speech, and Slumdog Millionaire. This year 33.3 percent of Black List entries have financiers attached; 68 percent have producers attached; and 5 writers or writing teams don’t have agents. Here is the list by votes, with votes by agency here and manager reps here. More complete info as it comes:

2013 Black List Screenplays:

46
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN
Andrew Sodroski
When a traditional Midwestern woman suspects her husband of infidelity, an amateur investigation unravels.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, John Garvey, Ali Trustman
Management: Principato-Young Entertainment
Manager: Peter Dealbert
Production: Le Grisbi Productions

44
SECTION 6
Aaron Berg
An exploration of the formation of Great Britian’s secret intelligence agency, Military Intelligence, Section 6, known as MI6.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Bryan Besser, Adam Levine
Management: Caliber Media
Manager: Adam Marshall
Financier: Universal
Producers: Grey Matter Productions, Marc Platt Productions

39
FRISCO
Simon Stephenson
A forty-something pediatric allergist, who specializes in hazelnut and is facing a divorce, learns lessons in living from a wise-beyond-her-years terminally ill 15-year-old patient when she crashes his weekend trip to a conference in San Francisco.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Peter Dodd, Geoff Morley, Julien Thuan
Producer: Tom McNulty

27
A MONSTER CALLS
Patrick Ness
An adolescent boy with a terminally ill single mother begins having visions of a tree monster, who tells him the truths about life in the form of three stories, helping him to eventually cope with his emotions over his dying mom.
Agency: Michelle Kass Associates
Agents: Michelle Kass

25
THE SPECIAL PROGRAM
Debora Cahn
The true story of Jack Goldsmith, a young attorney who took charge of the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel, then courageously took on Vice President Cheney and his powerful inner circle when he discovered they were running a number of illegal activities through their so-called “Special Program”.
Agency: CAA
Agent: Craig Brody
Financier: The Weinstein Company
Producer: Spring Creek

24
HOT SUMMER NIGHTS
Elijah Bynum
A teenager’s life spirals out of control when he befriends the town’s rebel, falls in love, and gets entangled in selling drugs over one summer in Cape Cod.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Zach Carlisle, Tanya Cohen, Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Melissa Solomon
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Managers: Josh Goldenberg, Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone

SOVEREIGN
Geoff Tock, Greg Weidman
A man goes to space to destroy the ship that, upon going sentient, killed his wife.
Agency: WME
Agents: Daniel Cohan, Solco Schuit
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Managers: Chris Goble, Jeff Silver
Production: 21 Laps Entertainment

22
SHOVEL BUDDIES
Jason Mark Hellerman
Over 24 hours, four teenage friends try to complete the “Shovel List” (a will/bucket list) left for them by their best friend before he died of Leukemia.
Agency: CAA
Agents: John Garvey, Ali Trustman
Management: Management 360
Managers: Ali Itri, Dean Schnider

20
POX AMERICANA
Frank John Hughes
In the Old West, a group of soldiers go on a mission to slaughter a peaceful tribe in retaliation for another tribe’s attack on a white settlement, only to suffer at the hands of a devastating disease.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro
Financier: Code Entertainment
Producer: Code Entertainment

REMINISCENCE
Lisa Joy Nolan
An “archeologist” whose technology allows you to relive your past finds himself abusing his own science to find the missing love of his life.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Kassie Evashevski, Keya Khayatian, Julien Thuan
Financier: Legendary Entertainment

THE INDEPENDENT
Evan Parter
With America’s first viable independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands.
Agency: Paradigm
Agent: Ida Ziniti
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Ryan Cunningham

19
BEAST
Zach Dean
With the hope of starting over, a reformed criminal with an ultra-violent past returns home, but when he finds his own family leading his teenaged son down the same path of destruction, he will stop at nothing to save his child.
Agency: UTA
Agent: Charles Ferraro
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

THE GOLDEN RECORD
Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell
The true story of how Carl Sagan fell in love while leading the wildest mission in NASA history: a golden record to encapsulate the experience of life on earth for advanced extraterrestrial life.
Agency: Paradigm
Agents: Tanya Cohen, Rob Hertling, Adam Levine
Management: Hopscotch Pictures
Manager: Sukee Chew
Producer: Hopscotch Pictures

18
FAULTS
Riley Stearns
An expert on cults is hired by a mother and father to kidnap and deprogram their brainwashed daughter. He soon begins to suspect the parents may be more destructive than the cult he’s been hired to save her from.
Agency: WME
Agent: Warren Zavala
Management: Oasis Management Group
Manager: Ben Rowe

SWEETHEART
Jack Stanley
A young hitwoman tries to escape the business but finds herself in more danger after a high school reunion and a one-night stand.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, John Garvey, Stuart Marshall
Management: Silent R Management
Manager: Jewerl Ross
Producer: Cota Films

17
SUPERBRAT
Eric Slovin, Leo Allen
Temperamental tennis champion John McEnroe is sucked into a dangerous and ludicrous law enforcement sting during Wimbledon in 1980.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Greg Cavic, Matt Martin, Gregory McKnight
Management: Generate
Manager: Kara Welker
Producer: Ruby Films

16
DOGFIGHT
Nicole Riegel
A 15-year-old boy discovers that his kidnapped older brother has been living in a hidden, meth-producing compound, and infiltrates the camp in hopes of helping his brother escape.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Matt Martin, Matt Rosen
Management: Anonymous Content
Manager: Nicole Romano

THE CIVILIAN
Rachel Long, Brian Pittman
After an American doctor has his identity stolen by a covert operative, he must assume the dangerous mission of the one who stole it in order to clear his name.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Rames Ishak, Michael Sheresky
Management: Management 360
Manager: Scott Carr
Financier: Millennium Films

15
BURN SITE
Doug Simon
After a young teenage girl is murdered, her stepfather falls back on his dark and violent past to find her killer.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Aaron Hart, Rob Hertling, Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon
Management: Generate
Manager: Chris Pollack
Producer: Generate, Sourian Productions

QUEEN OF HEARTS
Stephanie Shannon
Oxford instructor Charles Dodgson (Louis Carroll) tells stories to the dean’s daughter Alice, and her sisters, while falling in love with the dean’s wife.
Agency: CAA
Agents: JP Evans, Matt Rosen
Management: Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Manager: David McIlvain
Financier/producer: Odd Lot Entertainment

14
BROKEN COVE
Declan O’Dwyer
After his brother is found brutally murdered, a man hellbent on revenge returns to his decrepit Irish fishing village home armed only with a mysterious list of names his brother left behind.
Agency: WME
Agents: Chris Donnelly, James Farrell, David Karp, Solco Schuit
Management: Energy Entertainment
Manager: Brooklyn Weaver
Producer: Energy Entertainment, Thunder Road Productions

GAY KID AND FAT CHICK
Bo Burnham
Two high school misfits become costumed vigilantes and take out their frustrations on the students who have bullied them throughout high school.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jason Heyman, Greg McKnight
Management: 3 Arts Entertainment
Manager: Dave Becky
Financier: Paramount Insurge

13
1969: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR HOW KUBRICK LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LAND ON THE MOON
Stephany Folsom
With NASA’s Apollo program in trouble and the Soviets threatening nuclear war, a female PR operative conspires with NASA’s Public Affairs Office to stage a fake moon landing in case Armstrong and Aldren fail, the goal being to generate public excitement that will aid the U.S. in winning the Cold War. But the op is faced with the biggest challenge of all: Filming the fake lunar landing with temperamental Stanley Kubrick.
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Aaron Kaplan

AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE
Richard Naing, Ian Goldberg
A father/son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. The more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes.
Agencies: APA (Naing), CAA (Goldberg)
Agents: Mike Goldberg (Niang), Matt Rosen (Goldberg)
Management: New Wave Entertainment
Manager: Josh Adler
Financier: Goldcrest Films International
Producers: 42, Imposter Pictures

THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY
Nick Creature, Michael Sweeney
When a difficult film shoot spirals hopelessly out of control into a living nightmare, an ambitious young director must face his greatest fears to turn a troubled production into the biggest movie of all time. Set on Martha’s Vineyard during the summer of 1974, this is the untold story of the making of Jaws.
Agency: Rothman Brecher
Agent: Jim Ehrich
Management: Heroes and Villains Entertainment
Managers: Markus Georg, Mikhail Nayfeld

WHERE ANGELS DIE
Alexander Felix
A street-tough, white social worker in the slums of Detroit acts on a dangerous and violent personal vendetta when he protects a young girl and her mother from her recently incarcerated, AIDS-infected boyfriend, after he abruptly massacres a seedy strip club in a rage.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Matt Martin, Ali Trustman
Management: Energy Entertainment
Managers: Tom Carter, Brooklyn Weaver
Producer: Vertigo Entertainment

12
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Alexis C. Jolly
Set in 1950s Manhattan, Fred Rogers journeys from a naive young man working for a NBC to the host of the beloved children’s TV show, Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Agency: APA
Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour
Management: Echo Lake Entertainment
Managers: Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, James Engle, Amotz Zakai
Financier/producer: Treehouse Pictures

INK AND BONE
Zak Olkewicz
When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage.
Agency: WME
Agent: Daniel Cohan
Management: Caliber Media
Manager: Will Rowbotham
Financier: Dimension Films
Producer: Prolific

11
THE BOY AND HIS TIGER
Dan Dollar
The true story of Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, Ali Trustman
Management: Industry Entertainment
Manager: Michael Botti
Financier: Warner Bros
Producers: Appian Way Productions, Vertigo Entertainment, Romark Entertainment

THE KILLING FLOOR
Bac Delorme, Stephen Clarke
A war veteran slaughterhouse worker and his friend discover a small fortune in heroin hidden inside a processed cow and maneuver to hold onto their find and cash out to save his grandfather’s house as the bad guys come looking for their wayward stash.
Agency: WME
Agent: David Karp
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Manager: Jeff Silver
Producer: Le Grisbi Productions

10
I’M PROUD OF YOU
Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue
Based on Tim Madigan’s autobiographical novel of the same name. A journalist looking for a story about television’s role in the Columbine tragedy interviews TV’s Mr Rogers and, as a friendship develops between the two, he finds himself confronting his own issues at home.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Jon Huddle, Keya Khayatian
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Alex Lerner
Financier: Big Beach Productions
Producer: Youree Henley

SEED
Christina Hodson
After suffering a devastating miscarriage a young woman and her fiance travel to Italy where she meets his family for the first time, but her grief turns to shock when the local doctor declares that she’s still pregnant. And while her fiance and his family seem delighted by the news, she begins to suspect their true motives are quiet sinister.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jay Baker, Matt Rosen
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Tobin Babst
Producer: The Safran Company, Temple Hill Entertainment

THE COMPANY MAN
Andrew Cypiot
Based on true events. CIA agent Edwin Wilson went behind enemy lines to secure weapons contracts and report information back to the CIA shortly after the Cold War. He had a meteoric rise until company policies changed and he was unceremoniously fired, but he continued to operate as a man without a country and became public enemy number one in the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Rob Herting, Adam Weinstein
Producers: Sourian Productions, Josh Kezdan

THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING
Richard Cordiner
When his big break finally arrives, an idealistic young movie director, Steven Spielberg, risks failing to complete the movie Jaws when his 25-foot mechanical shark stops working.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Rob Herting, Adam Weinstein
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone

9
THE CROWN
Max Hurwitz
In exchange for a lighter prison sentence, a young hacker goes undercover for the FBI in a sting operation to find and steal a super computer virus with the help of a team of unsuspecting hacker.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, Jacqueline Sacerio
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Manager: Jeff Silver
Financier/producer: Start Motion Pictures

DIABLO RUN
Shea Mirzai, Evan Mirzai
While on a road trip to Mexico, two best friends are forced to enter a thousand-mile death race with no rules.
Agency: Resolution
Agents: Remington Franklin, Martin Spencer
Producer: Atmosphere Entertainment

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RANDLE IS BENIGN
Damien Ober
Follows a woman in the ’80s who works at an IBM-like company and is at the forefront of national intelligence research. When her project (named RANDLE) hits a major milestone indicating that she may have actually achieved AI, it is unexpectedly hijacked by the agenda of the company’s mysterious CEO. As she dives deeper into the corporate agenda, she learns that there may be a connection between her project and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.
Agency: WME
Agents: Simon Faber, Solco Schuit
Management: Echo Lake Entertainment
Manager: Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, James Engle
Financier/producer: Echo Lake Entertainment

TCHAIKOVSKY’S REQUIEM
Jonathan Stokes
A conductor investigates the great composer’s seemingly unnatural death and unlocks the mysteries of the man himself while preparing to debut Tchaikovsky’s final symphony.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Ramses Ishak, Geoff Morely, Michael Sheresky
Management: Management SGC
Manager: Scott Carr

8
LINE OF DUTY
Cory Miller
Macbeth meets The Departed in the modern retelling of Shakespeare’s play, focusing on the tragic rise and fall of NYPD officer Sean Stewart, a heroic narcotics detective pushed to the dark side of police corruption by his scheming wife and a well-timed prophecy.
Agency: APA
Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour
Management: Luber Roklin Management
Manager: Bryan Brucks
Financier: Lotus Entertainment
Producers: Bedford Falls, Jim Belushi, Luber Roklin Entertainment

INQUEST
Josh Simon
After the death of Princess Diana, a reluctant investigator is hired to ascertain whether her death was premeditated. And in the process, he begins to uncover a conspiracy that compromises his own safely.
Agency: WME
Agents: Mike Esola
Management: Apostle Pictures
Manager: George Heller
Financer/producer: Start Motion Pictures

CAPSULE
Ian Shorr
A young man’s life is turned upside down when he mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Charles Ferraro
Management: Mosaic
Manager: Langley Perer
Financier: Fox
Producer: Hutch Parker Entertainment

FULLY WRECKED
Jake Morse, Scott Wolman
An R-rated talking car from the ’80s is brought back into service and teamed up with the son of his former partner, a befuddled cop looking to earn his stripes.
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Josh Goldenberg
Producer: Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions

SPOTLIGHT
Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
The true-life account of the Boston Globe’s breaking of the Catholic priest scandal in 2003.
Agencies: Gersh (McCarthy), WME (Singer)
Agents: Rhonda Price (McCarthy), Ari Greenberg (Singer)
Management: Anonymous Content (Singer)
Manager: Michael Sugar (Singer)
Producer: Anonymous Content

EXTINCTION
Spenser Cohen
A man must do everything he can to save his family from an alien invasion.
Agency: WME
Agent: Solco Schuit
Management: Energy Entertainment
Manager: Brooklyn Weaver
Financier: Good Universe
Producer: Mandeville Films

REVELATION
Hernany Perla
A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come.
Agency: Original Artists
Agent: Chris Sablan
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Ryan Cunningham
Financier: Lotus Entertainment
Producer: Circle Of Confusion

ELSEWHERE
Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis
After his girlfriend dies in a car accident, a man finds his true soulmate, only to wake from a coma to learn his perfect life was just a dream — one he is determined to make real.
Agency: Paradigm
Agent: David Boxerbaum
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Adam Kolbrenner
Producer: Madhouse Entertainment

CLARITY
Ryan Belenzon, Jeffrey Gelber
What if a world woke up tomorrow to scientific proof of the afterlife?
Agency: Paradigm
Agents: Nick LoPiccolo, Ida Ziniti
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Manager: Jeff Silver
Producer: Bona Fide Productions

THE POLITICIAN
Matthew Bass, Theodore Bressman
A disgraced governor and his underachieving accomplice go on the run from the FBI, U.S. Marshals and a gang of hardened drug dealers.
Agency: WME
Agents: Rich Cook, Solco Schuit
Management: Circle of Confusion (Bass), Principato-Young Entertainment (Bressman)
Manager: Julian Rosenberg (Bass), Peter Principato (Bressman)
Financier: Sony
Producer: The Mark Gordon Company, Point Grey Pictures

AMERICAN SNIPER
Jason Dean Hall
Based on Chris Kyle’s autobiography American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper In U.S. Military History.
Agency: CAA
Agent: Jay Baker
Management: Management 360
Manager: Dan Friedman
Financier: Warner Bros
Producer: 22nd & Indiana, Mad Chance Productions

THE LINE
Sang Kyu Kim
A corrupt bordercrossing agent must decide what is more important — saving his soul or inflating his bank account — when he discovers a young illegal boy who escaped a cartel hit on the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
Agency: CAA
Agent: Matt Rosen
Producer: 42

HALF HEARD IN THE STILLNESS
David Weil
A young man, who is inadvertently rescued after living 10 years in the basement of the child predator who abducted him, struggles to reunite with his family, while the detective in charge of his case investigates the link between his discovery and the recent disappearance of another local boy.
Agency: Gersh
Agent: Carlos Gonzalez
Management: Unified Management
Manager: Jesse Moresco
Producer: RA Max Studio Ltd

TIME & TEMPERATURE
Nick Santora
Based on a true story, Dale Julin (a low-level Fresno affiliate morning show host) stumbles upon the biggest story of his life — and though he has reached the midpoint of his career without ever being a “real journalist” — risks his safety and his marriage to uncover the truth that a small atomic bomb exploded in Central Valley, California, during the Korean War — a secret that has been hidden for decades.
Agency: WME
Agent: Jason Spitz
Management: The Gotham Group
Managers: Jeremy Bell, Stephan Iwanyk, Lindsay Williams

CAKE
Patrick Tobin
A woman who’s been suffering from chronic pain since the car accident that cost the life of her child finds the will to go on from the most unexpected places.
Agency: WME
Agents: Adriana Alberghetti, Kimberly Bialek
Producer: Ben Barnz

7
PURE O
Kate Trefry
In order to overcome violent visions brought on by OCD, a promising young writer is urged by family and friends to step outside her comfort zone to experience the excitement and vulnerability of truly living.
Management: Caliber Media
Manager: Lee Stobby

THE END OF THE TOUR
Donald Margulies
Upon hearing of David Foster Wallace’s suicide, writer David Lipsky recalls his 1996 interview with him.
Agency: WME
Agents: Kimberly Bialek, David Lubliner
Management: Anonymous Content
Manager: David Kanter
Producer: Anonymous Content

NICHOLAS
Leo Sardarian
With the Roman Empire on the brink of collapse, a fourth century bishop takes up arms to lead the armies of Constantine the Great into battle against the ruthless emperor, changing the face of Rome and begetting one of the greatest legends in history.
Agency: APA
Agents: Adam Perry, Chris Ridenhour
Management: Management 360
Managers: Ali Itri, Adam Riback
Producer: Level 1 Entertainment

MAN OF SORROW
Neville Kiser
Based on true events, the story centers on Oscar Wilde who goes from renowned playwright to losing everything personally and professionally.
Management: Principato-Young Entertainment
Manager: Peter Dealbert

DIG
Adam Barker
After his villainous father-in-law kidnaps his daughters, Sol, a tough-as-nails mountain man, travels across the frigid Appalachian mountains seeking vengeance.
Agency: ICM
Agent: Lars Theriot
Management: Industry Entertainment
Managers: Michael Botti, Andrew Dean
Producer: Industry Entertainment

THE FIXER
Bill Kennedy
A man who works in wealth management, and also has his hands in a number of less than ethical enterprises, begins collaborating with a Los Angeles-based drug dealer. The dealer just so happens to have the man’s son as one of his runners in the drug-fueled LA nightlife.
Agency: WME
Agent: Daniel Cohan
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Josh Goldenberg

SUGAR IN MY VEINS
Barbara Stepansky
A 14-year-old female prodigy finds companionship for the first time when she befriends a handsome older man.
Agency: ICM
Agents: Cullen Conly, Kathleen Remington
Management: HertzbergMedia
Manager: Alex Hertzberg

SEA OF TREES
Chris Sparling
An American man takes a journey into the infamous “Suicide Forest” at the foothills of Mount Fuji with the intention of taking his own life. When he is interrupted by a Japanese man who has had second thoughts about his own suicide, and is trying to find his way out of the forest, the two begin a journey of reflection and survival.
Agency: UTA
Agent: Charles Ferraro
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Aaron Kaplan
Producer: Gil Netter Productions

MAKE A WISH
Zach Frankel
A 14-year-old boy with terminal cancer has one last wish — to lose his virginity — and convinces his reluctant football star Make-A-Wish partner to help him score.
Agency: WME
Agents: Ryan Feldman, Solco Schuit, Sarah Self
Management: Untitled Entertainment
Managers: Ben Curtis, Jason Newman, Jason Weinberg
Producer: Inspire Entertainment, State Street Pictures

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BURY THE LEAD
Justin Kremer
A desperate, attention-hungry journalist concocts a story that ironically proves to be true and finds himself engulfed in a dangerous underworld of murder and mayhem.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Jon Cassir, Matt Rosen, Ali Trustman
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

FROM HERE TO ALBION
Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani
A tragic accident in a coastal English town sets off a chain of violence when a malevolent assassin attempts to punish all involved, including a dirty cop who is intent on covering up the truth.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Carolyn Sivitz, Melissa Wells
Management: Oasis Media Group
Manager: Ben Rowe
Financier/producer: Participant Media

FREE BYRD
Jon Boyer
After being diagnosed with dementia, a retired fiftysomething stunt motorcyclist sets out to perform one last jump.
Agency: WME
Agents: David Karp, Phil Raskind
Management: Zero Gravity
Manager: Eric Williams
Producer: Gil Netter Productions

BEAUTY QUEEN
Annie Neal
An unhappily married woman and her best friend go on a road trip to Las Vegas to compete in the Miss Married America competition.
Agency: Paradigm
Agents: Chris Smith, Ida Ziniti
Management: Benderspink
Manager: Daniel Yang, Jake Wagner

THE REMAINS
Meaghan Oppenheimer
Three former childhood friends with a complicated history get back together to spread the ashes of their friend who recently died.
Agency: CAA
Agents: Rowena Arguelles, Melissa Wells
Management: Underground
Manager: Evan Silverberg

LAST MINUTE MAIDS
Leo Nichols
Two lovable losers run into trouble after they start a service cleaning up the stuff you don’t want your loved ones to find once you die.
Management: Benderspink
Manager: Jake Wagner

PAN
Jason Fuchs
A prequel to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan. When an orphan is taken to the magical world of Neverland, he becomes a hero to the natives and leads a revolt against the evil pirates.
Agency: WME
Agents: Simon Farber, Phil Raskind
Management: Brookside Artist Management
Financier: Warner Bros
Producer: Berlanti Productions

DUDE
Olivia Milch
The story of four best girlfriends who must learn how to move forward without moving on, as they come down off their “high” of high school in this “Fast Times-esque” teenage comedy.
Agency: ICM
Agents: John Burnham, Brian Diperstein
Management: Mosaic
Managers: Jimmy Miller, Langley Perer

PATIENT Z
Michael Le
In a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies, a man who speaks their language questions the undead in order to find a cure for his infected wife.
Agency: APA
Agent: David Saunders
Management: Hung Entertainment Group
Manager: Jonathan Hung
Financier: Screen Gems
Producer: Vincent Newman Entertainment

MISSISSIPPI MUD
Elijah Bynum
In the middle of major financial problems, a down on his luck Southerner’s life begins to unravel when he accidentally runs over and kills a runaway girl.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Zach Carlisle, Tanya Cohen, Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Melissa Solomon
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Josh Goldenberg, Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone
Producer: Darko Entertainment

Two Mr. Rogers projects and two based on the making of Jaws? Hmmm...

 

[redhawk23]

Do any of these ever get made?

 

[redhawk23]

In answer to my own question, looking at the 2010 list quite a few.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/the-black-list-2010/

Interesting.

The original script for "fun size" must be quite a bit different from what made it to the screen because seriously that movie is absolutely awful.

 

[Rocketman]

Yikes, 99% of these sound like crap.

Reminiscence? Really? Could we be any more blatantly obvious on ripping off Inception?

 

[redhawk23]

Yikes, 99% of these sound like crap.

Reminiscence? Really? Could we be any more blatantly obvious on ripping off Inception?

"Written by Lisa Joy Nolan"

This can't be real.

 

[Sawyer]

Jonah's wife, yes.

 

[redhawk23]

"Burn Sight" sounds awful

 

[redhawk23]

Jonah's wife, yes.

Is it really?

 

[Sawyer]

"Burn Sight" sounds awful

It sounds like something Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson would star in.

Which isn't a disagreement.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I'm surprised there's two "Making of Jaws" screenplays in there. I would like to see an intelligent comedy come out of that fake moon landing one with Stanley Kubrik.

 

[StarLord]

AMERICAN SNIPER
Jason Dean Hall
Based on Chris Kyle’s autobiography American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper In U.S. Military History.

Is Brad Lee Cooper still doing this movie?

 

[747]

Lisa Joy Nolan is indeed Jonah Nolan's wife.

 

[Hyde]

Why are there two about the making of Jaws?

That one about faking the moon landing sounds like it could be fantastic. My favourites other than that are:

Clarity
Revelation
Inquest
Half Heard in the Stillness
Sugar In My Veins
Make a Wish
Capsule

 

[747]

I hope CLARITY gets done – intrigued by the idea.

 

[matrix_ghost]

God i hate rival projects based on the same material.
Of all the scripts Capsule sounds interesting.

Also :
15
BURN SITE
Doug Simon
After a young teenage girl is murdered, her stepfather falls back on his dark and violent past to find her killer.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Aaron Hart, Rob Hertling, Chris Noriega, Melissa Solomon
Management: Generate
Manager: Chris Pollack
Producer: Generate, Sourian Productions

People i give you the plot of Taken 3...with some rewrites of course

 

[Hunter Rider]

THE SPECIAL PROGRAM
Debora Cahn
The true story of Jack Goldsmith, a young attorney who took charge of the White House's Office of Legal Counsel, then courageously took on Vice President Cheney and his powerful inner circle when he discovered they were running a number of illegal activities through their so-called "Special Program."

THE INDEPENDENT
Evan Parter
With America's first viable independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands.

FAULTS
Riley Stearns
An expert on cults is hired by a mother and father to kidnap and deprogram their brainwashed daughter. He soon begins to suspect the parents may be more destructive than the cult he's been hired to save her from.

SWEETHEART
Jack Stanley
A young hitwoman tries to escape the business but finds herself in more danger after a high school reunion and a one night stand.

THE CIVILIAN
Rachel Long, Brian Pittman
After an American doctor has his identity stolen by a covert operative, he must assume the dangerous mission of the one who stole it in order to clear his name.

AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE
Richard Naing, Ian Goldberg
A father/son mortician team try to uncover the cause of death on a Jane Doe. The more they uncover, the more mysterious and terrifying their world becomes.

INK AND BONE
Zak Olkewicz
When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage.

These are the ones on the list that caught my eye.

 

[Wolfwood]

The moon landing one reminds me of "Wag the Dog", which I loved.

 

[bullets]

Gay kid and fat chick is one of the worst titles I've ever seen.

 

[Sawyer]

I know!!!

Gay Kid and Fat Woman would've been so much more appropriate.

 

[bullets]

Sort of like Jake and the fat man. Only this time Jake's gay and the fat man is a woman

 

[Hyde]

EXTINCTION
Spenser Cohen
A man must do everything he can to save his family from an alien invasion.
Agency: WME
Agent: Solco Schuit
Management: Energy Entertainment
Manager: Brooklyn Weaver
Financier: Good Universe
Producer: Mandeville Films

Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger) is in talks to direct:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/captain-america-director-talks-alien-669047