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BLACK LIST Announces Top 10 Unproduced Screenplays of The Year

For the past several years throughout Hollywood, Franklin Leonard’s Black List has become one of the years most anticpated lists.
An annual compendium of the year’s best unproduced screenplays (previous screenplays on the list that have been produced include The Social Network, Cedar Rapids, Ides of March, The Descendants, Juno, and The Beaver).
After the jump, learn the top ten titles from this year’s list.

The Imitation Game by Graham Moore
The story of British World War II cryptographer Alan Turing who broke several German codes, but in later life was prosecuted for being homosexual, leading to his suicide.

When the Street Lights Go by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe
In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a murder of a high school girl and a teacher.

Chewie
A satirical, behind-the-scenes look at the making of Stars Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca.

The Outsider by Andrew Baldwin
In post-World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza.

Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses by Matthew Aldrich
A man goes on a three-state crime spree with an accomplice, his 11-year-old daughter.

In the Event of a Moon Disaster by Mike Jones
An alternate telling of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash-landed there.

Maggie by John Scott 3
As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie.
 
The Current War by Michael Mitnick
Based on the true story of the race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical system of electricity and sell their respective inventions to the country and the world.

The End by Aron Eli Coleite
Four people — a veteran broadcaster in London, a 16-year old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a devoted family man in Shanghai — each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours.

Beyond the Pale by Chad Feehan
Based on William Gay’s novel Twilight, teenage siblings suspect they’ve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister.
 
Ezekiel Moss by Keith Bunin
A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young widow and her 11-year-old son.

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