For the next week or so, every day I will be featuring ten or so of the recently submission unproduced scripts (which you can also find on the Unproduced Scripts page).

High Rise by David J. McCann (mojomccann)

(Short, Horror) – Harry’s got a collection to make, one he’ll never forget. 10 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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Goods Lift by Michael McGennan hosted by Michael McGennan’s Writes

(Drama) – A young woman who discovers a way to peer 24 hours into tomorrow must find a way to reach yesterday to save her murdered lover. 118 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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Stargate Atlantis: The Last of the Mohicans by Richard Marois

(Sci Fi, Fantasy) – Set with an approximate third season timeline, our heroes accidentally discover an injured Ancient in unconventional stasis. Strong ties are formed as our heroes benefit from the experience of their newfound friend. 96 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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Stargate Atlantis: Standing on the edge of forever by Richard Marois

(Sci Fi, Fantasy) – Our Ancient has a plan. Having left Atlantis, she lays out its foundation and goes dormant waiting for the trigger. Yet again, Sheppard will meet his nemesis. Little do the parties know that their respective destinies will forever be altered. 95 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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Infinite Insanity by David

(Short, Radio Play) – An ‘epic’ sci fi space opera. 9 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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The Journey by James Richards

(Comedy) – Four guys unite together to overcome their divorce stories and learn from eachother’s life experiences. 112 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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Alien Weekend by Richard

(Action, Adventure) – Three aliens. Bonky, Pogo and Poy, crash land on earth and are quickly be-friended by two brothers, Jordan and Lennie. Together they must journey to dead mans skull and find the missing peice of the ships navigation system so the aliens can find their way home. Along the way they are pursued by Buster, the local bully and his family, who will stop at nothing to capture the aliens for their own gains. 104 pages (fdr – formatting: )
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Winter Sweethearts by Stephen Brown (stebrown)

(Short, Romance, Drama) – A widower meets an old friend for one more chance at love. 5 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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I Apologize by Dora McCuller

(Drama, Thriller) – A teenager in rage with the AIDS virus, whom seeks revenge on all men. 139 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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I Hate Edward Cullen by Adam

(Short, Comedy) – After his girlfriend breaks up with him because he isn’t “Edward enough” for her, Jason discovers the Twilight series and takes an instant disliking to it. He meets the perfect girl and she’s surprisingly never heard of Twilight. He needs to make sure it stays that way. 10 pages (pdf – formatting: )
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The 2010 Black List (pdf format) is out.

Some previous Black List scripts included Juno, The Social Network, 500 Days of Summer and Lars And The Real Girl.

This year, with 49 votes leading the pack is College Republicans by by Wes Jones

Based on true events. Aspiring politician Karl Rove runs a dirty campaign for national College Republican Chairman under the guidance of Lee Atwater, his campaign manager.

A few other notable (well, at least to me) nods are:

Hunger Games by Billy Ray. Based on the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

I’m heartened to see this make The Black List. My boys and I have read the series and I hope that the scripts appearance on The Black List means that they’ll be able to pull off which appears to me to be a very difficult book to film.

Also appearing is Chris Sparling’s ATM. Chris wrote Buried which came out last year.

Three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for survival when they stop to use an ATM.

Another script that caught my eye was Boy Scouts Vs. Zombies by Carrie Evans & Emi Mochizuko.

A troop of Boy Scouts on their weekend camping trip must protect an island town from a zombie outbreak and save the local girl scout troop.

Check out Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood which has an excellent writeup and analysis of The Black List.

*For those of you who don’t know, The Black List is an annual list of Hollywood’s most liked unproduced screenplays. It started in 2004 when Franklin Leonard, a development executive for Appian Way, asked folks in the business to send in their list of top 10 unproduced screenplays. Those lists were complied into The Black List (which now as a site entirely devoted to The Black List).

Babz Buzz

Each month Literary Agent, Babz Bitela of Silver Bitela Agency talks soup to nuts about screenwriting.

The subject is The Shape of Things to Come – how the industry is changing.

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Babz also talks about

• Timing and Tone
• Floored by Kevin Haskin and Jason Bortz – (SimplyScripts Radio appearance)
• Waiting
• A Christmas Carol
• Fame and Success
• Things to Come
• Tron and Tron Legacy
• Props
• Inception
• Kurosawa
• Viral Media
• The Art of Regifting
• Babz Black List
  • Floored by Kevin Haskin and Jason Bortz – “Hannible Lector-esque without the Hanible Lector weirdness”
  • Long Shadow Woman by Craig Clyde (SimplyScripts Radio appearance) – Turn of the century Arizona. An outcast woman and a wounded Apache boy. One will teach. One will learn. Both will change.
  • LazerBladers by Robert Powers
  • Clause 13 by Craig Savin
  • Queen of the Mist by Richard Broadhurst

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Another script For Your Consideration.

The King’s Speech – undated, unspecified draft script by David Seidler – hosted by: The Weinstein Company – in pdf format

The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

Information courtesy of imdb.com