Blacklist scripts 2022

You can read and download the "Black List: 2020" screenplays and scripts right here, right now.

They're listed and indexed alphabetically for quick access. For Your Consideration, the next batch of 40 scripts. From Elijah Bynum's "Magazine Dreams", to Brett Melnick's comedy, "Yom Kippur", and everything in between.

If you're a young writer looking for study guides, you've found the right place. These "Black List: 2020" scripts were chosen by industry executives.

What is the "Black List" you ask? It may not be exactly what you'd expect. Discover more, below.

Consider the name ironic. This isn't a list of scripts written by those who are unwelcome in the industry. Rather, the "Black List" is a compilation of "most liked" unproduced screenplays from a particular year. Screenwriters, young and old, repped or voiceless, submit their works for consideration.

Annually, since 2005, film industry executives read hundreds of screenplays and choose which ones are their favorite. Referred to as a "mention", favored scripts with the most mentions are featured on, in this regard, the "Black List: 2020".

Some screenplays get optioned by studios and become movies. Past scripts include "The King's Speech", "Free Guy" and "Promising Young Woman."

A Black amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence.

When a dangerous stranger shows up at her front door, a depressed widow must confront her own past in order to protect her two children.

Annie Mills has always known Margot Ellison to be two things: her best friend and a devout Mormon. But as high school graduation nears and Margot starts to crave change, the girls must grapple with the fear that growing up might require growing alone.

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

When seventeen-year old Minnies best friend Callie is killed in an accident, she struggles to find an identity of her own and forms a complicated friendship with Callies grieving mother.

The President is murdered during a private dinner, and Secret Service agent Mia Pine has until morning to discover which guest is the killer before a peace agreement fails and leads to war.

Based on a short story by Rachel Khong. A love story set in the afterlife about our struggle to let go of the past, even when our present is heaven... literally. Tess keeps searching for the love of her life without realizing hes right there next to her the whole time, helping her look.

Aisha is an undocumented nanny caring for a privileged child. As she prepares for the arrival of her only son, who she left behind in her native country, a violent supernatural presence invades her reality, jeopardizing the American Dream shes carefully pieced together.

An adaptation of David Sharps book The CIAs Greatest Covert Operation that chronicles the clandestine CIA operation that risked igniting WWIII by recovering a nuclear-armed Soviet Sub, the K-129, that sunk to the bottom of the ocean in 1968.

A Nevada court judge who moonlights reffing high-profile boxing matches must face his demons when hes assigned to the Olympic fight of an ex-con hed previously sentenced for murder.

The incredible true story of the multi-billion dollar Malaysian government corruption scandal which led to the conviction of Prime Minister Najib Razak and almost $5 billion in settlements paid out by Goldman Sachs.

A troubled young surgeon travels to a desolate peak to climb the mountain where her father suffered a mental breakdown years earlier, only to realize halfway up the rock wall that she might be subject to the same fate.

Sex, money, and one schoolyard fad that took a nation by storm. Based on the true story of Ty Warner, the enigmatic entrepreneur behind a 90s toy craze that sparked madness, murder, and a billion-dollar empire.

After discovering his secret songwriting partner dead, a country music star struggling to record new material makes a Faustian bargain with a family of possums who have taken up residency within his walls.

A woman abruptly discovers nothing shes known until now is real, and she must recover the truth in order to save the rest of the country, still trapped inside of the lie.

A chemical leak in a local water supply in Central Florida wreaks havoc on the invasive population of pythons, leading a family to the fight of their life to survive.

Harvard. 1959. A young Ted Kaczynski is experimented on by Dr. Henry Murray during a secret CIA psychological study that may have led to the creation of the Unabomber.

London, 1888: When their friends begin dying at the hands of a brutal killer, an all-female crime syndicate, The Forty Elephants, must work together to take down the predator stalking them - Jack The Ripper.

After her husband is attacked, assassin Ruby is lured into the open to hunt down those responsible, leading her back to the boss who wants to keep her in the fold at any cost.

After being haunted by a terrifying entity, a twelve-year-old boy teams up with his eccentric uncle and three other misfits to form their own ghost club, investigating all the paranormal sites in town so that he can find and confront the ghost thats tormenting him.

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

A chain of scam artists goes after one wealthy family with the perfect plan to drain them of their funds. But when love, heartbreak, and jealousy slither their way into the grand scheme, it becomes unclear whether the criminals are conning or the ones being conned.

Journalists race to expose how Boeing knowingly misled regulators, pilots, and airlines to cover up a problematic flight software system on the 737 MAX, leading to two major airplane crashes and the deaths of 346 people. Based on real events.

When a very fat and possibly gay boy from New Orleans is visited by an angel called Barbra Streisand, he sets out on a holy crusade in daytime television to touch and save the soul of every obese person in America before his demons consume him - if only to make his daddy proud. Its the true gospel of Richard Simmons.

When headstrong but well-intentioned college student Sara Jane bails on Senior Spring Break to drive a fourteen-year-old girl to get an abortion, shes shocked to discover that her passenger is an undercover pro-lifer who has kidnapped her.

When a journalist turned stay-at-home mom relocates to Los Angeles to rebuild after a personal trauma, she blurs the lines between fact and fiction... only to find herself at the center of her own story.

A awkward teenage outcast comes of age against the backdrop of the hospice where her brother [and coincidentally, Terri Schiavo] are dying.

When two life-long best friends discover that theyre both pregnant, they promise to embark on their journey together. But with the constant pressure of outsiders, the two struggle midst personal differences and must re-learn that what connected them as children can still be their glue as adults.

A businessmans obsession with his competitor leads him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery, fantasy, and delusion.

A father and daughter living in remote isolation must fight for survival after aliens arrive seeking revenge for killing one of their own.

A high school senior attempts to get her principal fired after observing racist behavior, but she quickly learns he wont go down without a fight.

Following in his murdered mothers footsteps, Michael Griffiths enlists in the United States Postal Service... only to discover a mail route full of surprises and a job that means maybe, just maybe, saving the world.

An action comedy wherein Benji Stone, a lovable but deeply unpopular sixteen year old, is pulled into an international assassination plot by his uncle, a retired undercover assassin charged with babysitting Benji for the weekend.

The true story of how Vice magazine grew from a free magazine in Montreal into a multi billion dollar media empire, making two of its founders multi-millionaires while the third founder was kicked out and went on to modernize the white supremacist movement by creating the Proud Boys.

Three teenagers who rent a cursed VHS tape are pulled into an 80s slasher movie that threatens to trap them forever.

A female U.S. Army Special Agent is sent to a remote, all-male outpost in Afghanistan to investigate accusations of war crimes. But when a series of mysterious events jeopardize her mission and the units sanity, she must find the courage to survive something far more sinister.

An unassertive seventeen year old turns his high school on its head when he asks out his crush, a transgender classmate.

A struggling single mother must confront dangerous forces - and sins of her past - when her world collides with that of a serial killer. Inspired by the true story of Delawares only serial murderer, the Route 40 killer.

After getting high on the night of Yom Kippur, three distant cousins wake up with muddled minds and empty stomachs as they find themselves in the middle of a kidnapping and a major drug ring.

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