Black list: Top Unproduced Screenplays 2015
by just_ksu1 | created - 14 Jan 2016 | updated - 14 Jan 2016 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Bubbles (I)
Animation, Comedy | Announced
A chimpanzee tells his story of living with the legendary musician, Michael Jackson.
Director: Mark Gustafson | Star: Piyali Munshi
2. Stronger (I) (2017)
R | 119 min | Biography, Drama
Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Richard Lane Jr.
Votes: 49,637 | Gross: $4.21M
3. The Libertine
Drama | Announced
Living under house arrest for allegations of sexual assault, a French diplomat awaits trial with his estranged wife in their guarded apartment.
4. Crater (2023)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best friends, prior to permanently leaving the Moon and relocated to another planet.
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Stars: Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Mckenna Grace, Billy Barratt, Orson Hong
Votes: 4,090
5. Miss Sloane (2016)
R | 132 min | Drama
In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. But when taking on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds winning may come at too high a price.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 82,496 | Gross: $3.50M
6. True Fan
Drama | Announced
A disgraced Chicago Cubs fan seeks out a new life after he's accused of costing the baseball team's chances at winning the pennant.
7. Lucy in the Sky (2019)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
Director: Noah Hawley | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Dan Stevens
Votes: 8,692
8. Reagan
Biography, Drama | Announced
An intern for U.S. President, Ronald Regan, is tasked with helping the world leader cope with his dementia.
9. Bump (II)
Drama | Announced
An attorney's life is turned upside down when he tries to cover up a fatal hit and run.
Director: Zach Braff | Star: Charlene McKenna
10. Eli (I) (2019)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A boy receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder discovers that the house he's living in isn't as safe as he thought.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Charlie Shotwell, Kelly Reilly, Max Martini, Lili Taylor
Votes: 40,815
11. Septillion to One
Comedy, Romance | Announced
A former FBI agent working for the fraud unit of the Texas State Lottery ends up falling for a woman he's supposed to be investigating after she suspiciously won the jackpot three times.
Director: Mark Romanek
12. White Boy Rick (2018)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Votes: 43,103 | Gross: $24.01M
13. Boomtown
Thriller | Announced
A corporate investor unearths a criminal conspiracy in North Dakota's oil territory.
14. Dreamland (I) (2019)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A teenager's adventures as a bounty hunter take an unexpected twist.
Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte | Stars: Finn Cole, Margot Robbie, Travis Fimmel, Kerry Condon
Votes: 8,375
15. The Fisherman (IV)
Drama | Announced
A fisherman in New England tracks down a shark that killed his friends.
16. The Water Man (I) (2020)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A boy sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers.
Director: David Oyelowo | Stars: David Oyelowo, Amiah Miller, Lonnie Chavis, Rosario Dawson
Votes: 4,616
17. All the Money in the World (2017)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris
Votes: 91,007 | Gross: $25.11M
18. The Shave
Drama | Announced
A dirty cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the dead boy's father at his barbershop, and while receiving a straight razor shave listens to him recount the story of his son's life.
19. Do No Harm (I)
Thriller | Announced
A surgeon's affair with another ambitious doctor puts her life in jeopardy.
Director: Larysa Kondracki
20. Hammerspace
Sci-Fi | Announced
A dying teenager finds a key that unlocks a world to an alternate dimension that helps him in his time of crisis.
21. The Wretched Emily Derringer
Horror | Announced
A young killer discovers that there is a copycat murderer in her town who's crimes are wrongfully being credited to her.
22. Pandemonium, Splendidly Managed
Drama | Announced
A local TV news anchor from Arizona tries to make it as a game show host in Los Angeles.
23. The Virginian
Drama | Announced
George Washington, who is young, depressed and hoping to switch sides in the revolution, accepts a risky yet vital mission to conquer a French fort.
Director: Jason Hall
24. Castle Drive
Drama | Announced
A journalist interviews a murderer known as the "Green Beret Killer".
26. American Woman (2018)
R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman raises her young grandson after her daughter goes missing.
Director: Jake Scott | Stars: Sienna Miller, Sky Ferreira, Kentucker Audley, Christina Hendricks
Votes: 7,663 | Gross: $0.24M
27. Mayday 109
Drama | Announced
John F. Kennedy's PT boat comes under attack by a Japanese warship in World War II.
Director: James Gray
28. Morningstar (I)
Sci-Fi | Announced
An alien race forms a truce with the people of Earth, but one secret agent is sent on a mission to determine if there is an alien spy.
29. Rough Night (2017)
R | 101 min | Comedy
Things go terribly wrong for a group of girlfriends who hire a male stripper for a bachelorette party in Miami.
Director: Lucia Aniello | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Zoë Kravitz, Ilana Glazer
Votes: 55,810 | Gross: $22.11M
30. Nyad (2023)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Anne Marie Kempf, Carolyn McCormick
Votes: 36,767
31. Queen of the Air
Drama | Announced
The story of Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who in the early 20th century was one of the biggest stars in the world as she performed for the Circus. Her tragic love affair with Alfredo Codona, one of the best trapeze artists to ever exist, also was chronicled. The two were tempestuous artists, divas and madly in love. Their rise to fame is tracked, from the mud-caked small-town circuses to the... See full summary »
33. Blackfriars
History | Announced
Based upon Walter Robinson's life story in connection with the Black Friars Massacre of 1978.
Director: Will Gluck
34. Circle of Treason
Biography, Drama, History | Pre-production
A pair of CIA agents help bring down one of the agency's biggest moles, Aldrich Ames, in the 1990s.
Director: Massy Tadjedin
35. The Set Up
Action, Comedy | Announced
A pair of friends get in over their heads when they're set up on a blind date.
36. Star One
Thriller | Announced
Two CIA agents must overcome their opposing world views to evade Soviet forces during a dangerous overland journey to save Tibet from looming Chinese invasion. It's the true story of the first CIA agent ever to die in the line of duty.
37. Chappaquiddick (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern
Votes: 14,601 | Gross: $17.40M
38. Great Falls
Drama, Thriller | Announced
Two police officers try to cover-up a crime in which the only witness is an inmate on death row.
39. Hunting Eichmann
Thriller | Announced
Israeli agents track down Adolph Eichmann in a pro-Nazi region of Argentina.
40. Battle of New Orleans (II)
Drama | Announced
General Andrew Jackson teams up with Jean Lafitte to battle against the British Army in the the War of 1812.
41. Crimson Trail
Drama | Announced
A preacher sets out on the American frontier seeking revenge against a pair of the notorious serial killers who murdered his family.
42. Our Week with Waller
Action, Comedy | Announced
Two friends take a vacation in Spain where they run into one of the world's most dangerous terrorists.
43. Set It Up (2018)
TV-14 | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Two corporate executive assistants hatch a plan to match-make their two bosses.
Director: Claire Scanlon | Stars: Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs
Votes: 64,204
44. A Speck in the Sea
Drama | Announced
Based on actual events, an account of a lobster fisherman's harrowing experience after he slipped off his boat and fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
45. Untitled Sociopath Project
Thriller | Announced
A man's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that he's being stalked by a doppelganger.
46. Ares
Drama, Sci-Fi | Announced
An astronaut crash lands in the African desert and suspects the mission is part of a conspiracy.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
47. Final Journey
Drama | Announced
An Inuit woman struggles for survival alone in the arctic tundra.
48. The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018)
Unrated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A former cop-turned-militia man investigates a shooting at a police funeral.
Director: Henry Dunham | Stars: James Badge Dale, Chris Mulkey, Brian Geraghty, Robert Aramayo
Votes: 4,575
49. Tomorrow on the Runway
Comedy, Drama | Announced
Ill-prepared for parenthood, Kermit St. Lucy, finds himself raising two young children.
50. Untitled Larry Hillblom Project
Biography, Drama | Announced
The story of billionaire Larry Hillblom, founder of the international delivery service DHL, who went missing after his plane went down near Saipan in 1995.
Star: Dwayne Johnson
51. An African Western
Drama | Announced
When a young African woman's village is destroyed by a "Christian" paramilitary unit and her sister is kidnapped, she uses every weapon at her disposal on an odyssey to save her last living relative.
52. Atlantic Wall
Drama, War | Announced
An American soldier is trapped behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Star: Bradley Cooper
53. Bed Rest (2022)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A pregnant woman on bed rest begins to wonder if her house is haunted or it's all in her head.
Director: Lori Evans Taylor | Stars: Melissa Barrera, Guy Burnet, Edie Inksetter, Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez
Votes: 3,845
54. I Believe in America
Drama | Announced
A behind-the-scenes account of the making of the epic 1972 film, 'The Godfather'.
55. Ida Tarbell
Drama | Announced
Journalist, Ida Tarbell, takes on the Rockefeller's empire by publishing an investigative series about the history of the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine at the turn of the century.
56. A Life Fantastic
Drama | Announced
A terminally-ill single mom looks for a new home for her 9-year-old-son.
57. Lou (I) (2022)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A storm rages. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother teams up with the mysterious woman next door to pursue the kidnapper, a journey that tests their limits and exposes shocking secrets from their pasts.
Director: Anna Foerster | Stars: Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Asha Bateman
Votes: 33,475
58. Preconception
Comedy | Announced
A couple in their 30s decide to live it up before settling down into parenthood.
Director: Ari Sandel
59. Senior Year (2022)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
A cheerleading stunt gone wrong landed her in a 20-year coma. Now she's 37, newly awake and ready to live out her high school dream: becoming prom queen.
Director: Alex Hardcastle | Stars: Rebel Wilson, Angourie Rice, Mary Holland, Molly Brown
Votes: 43,648
61. 105 and Rising
Drama | Announced
An American Ambassador to and a general oversee the 1975 evacuation of U.S. citizens from Vietnam.
62. The Boy (II)
Drama | Announced
A woman is haunted by a ghost that tells her to commit violent acts.
63. Free Agent
Drama | Announced
An executive with the National Basketball Association tries to keep her personal life from interfering with one of the biggest professional deals of her career.
64. Homegrown (I)
Drama | Announced
A home-schooled teenager is sent to live with a foster family and enroll in public school after his father is sent to prison.
65. The Canyon (I)
Drama | Announced
A family reunites for a road trip that opens old wounds and presents unexpected challenges as they prepare to hike Grand Canyon.
66. Carnival (I)
Thriller | Announced
A knife-thrower at a carnival seeks revenge against those who killed his sister.
Director: Robert Stromberg
67. Crook County
Drama | Pre-production
An undercover agent tries to root out corruption in Chicago's judicial system in the 1980s.
Directors: Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly
68. Damsel
Fantasy | Announced
Rapunzel plots revenge after years of captivity in an isolated tower in the forest.
Director: P.J. Hogan
69. Francis and the Godfather
Drama | Announced
Young director Francis Ford Coppola faces off against producer Robert Evans during the production of 'The Godfather.'
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, Elle Fanning, Elisabeth Moss
70. Green River Killer
Drama | Announced
Investigators track down a notorious serial killer who terrorized residents in the Pacific Northwest of the United States during the 1980s and '90s.
Director: Michael Sheen | Star: Michael Sheen
71. Landslide (I)
Drama, Thriller | Announced
American intelligence officers track down al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
72. Resurface
Action, Thriller | Announced
A pair of divers are trapped 35,000 feet underwater after an earthquake separates them from their crew.
73. Song of Treblinka
Drama, War | Announced
Held prisoner in Poland's most notorious death camp during World War II, a Jewish conductor stages a revolution against his Nazi captors.
74. Three Months (2022)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places.
Director: Jared Frieder | Stars: Troye Sivan, Viveik Kalra, Brianne Tju, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 2,364
75. Wish Upon (2017)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them.
Director: John R. Leonetti | Stars: Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert
Votes: 22,869 | Gross: $14.30M
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