UPDATE: Here are some noteworthy (and a few cheeky) statistics about this year’s Black List titles.
-11 biopics
-8 scripts with explicitly politically-charged content
-5 scripts about Hollywood or the entertainment industry
-5 scripts by writers discovered by the Black List’s website
-5 writers with scripts on previous Black Lists
-3 scripts featuring terminally-ill teenagers
-2 scripts about Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fame
-2 scripts about the making of JAWS
-2 winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowship
-1 script about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing
-1 writer with two scripts on the list
UPDATE #2: The Black List has revealed via their Twitter all 72 authors and scripts on the
2013 Black List, the annual list of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced
screenplays. Full list, below. More info to come later, including loglines.
Best Picture Oscar winners “Argo,” “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog
Millionaire” were all featured on previous Black Lists. Meanwhile, seven of the
last twelve screenwriting Oscars were featured on previous Black Lists (“Juno,”
“Slumdog Millionaire,” “The King’s Speech,” “The Social Network,” “The
Descendants,” “Django Unchained” and “Argo”).
UPDATE #3: 12 new names and scripts have been added, completing the 2013 Black List of 72 unproduced screenplays:
SEED – Christina Hodson
SUPERBRAT – Eric Slovin, Leo Allen
PAN – Jason Fuchs
DUDE – Olivia Milch
HOT SUMMER NIGHTS – Elijah Bynum
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN – Andrew Sodroski
QUEEN OF HEARTS – Stephanie Shannon
A MONSTER CALLS – Patrick Ness
RANDLE IS BENIGN – Damien Ober
MAKE A WISH – Zach Frankel
PATIENT Z – Michael Le
MISSISSIPPI MUD – Elijah Bynum
UPDATE #1: 10 new names and scripts have been added, bringing the current number to 60:
TIME AND TEMPERATURE – Nick Santora
BROKEN COVE – Declan O’Dwyer
LAST MINUTE MAIDS – Leo Nichols
SECTION 6 – Aaron Berg
SUGAR IN MY VEINS – Barbara Stepansky
WHERE ANGELS DIE – Alexander Felix
FRISCO – Simon Stephenson
SEA OF TREES – Chris Sparling
DIABLO RUN – Shea Mirzai, Evan Mirzai
CAKE – Patrick Tobin
EARLIER: The first 50 announced scripts:
LINE OF DUTY – Cory Miller
A BOY AND HIS TIGER – Dan Dollar
INQUEST – Josh Simon
SWEETHEART – Jack Stanley
THE COMPANY MAN – Andrew Cypiot
BURN SITE – Doug Simon
SHOVEL BUDDIES – Jason Mark Hellerman
CAPSULE – Ian Shorr
PURE O – Kate Trefry
FULLY WRECKED – Jake Morse, Scott Wolman
THE END OF THE TOUR – Donald Margulies
THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY – Nick Creature, Michael Sweeney
SPOTLIGHT – Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
EXTINCTION – Spenser Cohen
BURY THE LEAD – Justin Kremer
GAY KID AND FAT CHICK – Bo Burnham
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD – Alexis C. Jolly
INK AND BONE – Zak Olkewicz
DOGFIGHT – Nicole Riegel
SOVEREIGN – Geoff Tock, Greg Weidman
I’M PROUD OF YOU – Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue
THE SPECIAL PROGRAM – Debora Cahn
FAULTS – Riley Stearns
THE INDEPENDENT – Evan Parter
THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING – Richard Cordiner
AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE – Richard Naing, Ian Goldberg
THE CIVILIAN – Rachel Long, Brian Pittman
THE CROWN – Max Hurwitz
REVELATION – Hernany Perla
THE KILLING FLOOR – Bac Delorme, Stephen Clarke
ELSEWHERE – Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis
CLARITY – Ryan Belenzon, Jeffrey Gelber
1969: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR HOW KUBRICK LEARNED TO STOP
WORRYING AND LAND ON THE MOON – Stephany Folsom
FROM HERE TO ALBION – Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani
NICHOLAS – Leo Sardarian
THE GOLDEN RECORD – Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell
MAN OF SORROW – Neville Kiser
DIG – Adam Barker
FREE BYRD – Jon Boyer
REMINISCENCE – Lisa Joy Nolan
BEAUTY QUEEN – Annie Neal
THE POLITICIAN – Matthew Bass, Theodore Bressman
AMERICAN SNIPER – Jason Dean Hall
TCHAIKOVSKY’S REQUIEM – Jonathan Stokes
THE REMAINS – Meaghan Oppenheimer
BEAST – Zach Dean
THE LINE – Sang Kyu Kim
HALF HEARD IN THE STILLNESS – David Weil
THE FIXER – Bill Kennedy
POX AMERICANA – Frank John Hughes
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