Coroczna lista „czarna lista” ciekawych scenariuszy, które
nie zostały zakupione i skierowane do realizacji w USA. Z historii wiemy, że wiele z
tych tekstów – dzięki właśnie znalezieniu się na „czarnej liście” – pozyskuje producentów.
Jest to więc bardzo ciekawa forma ich promocji.
Zapraszam do zapoznania się ze scenariuszami z tej listy. Prezentuję ją w oryginale. Szczegóły na blcklst.com
BUBBLES by
Isaac Adamson 44
A baby
chimp is adopted by the Pop star Michael Jackson. Narrating his own story,
Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop’s inner circle
through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to
Bubbles’ release.
STRONGER by
John Pollono 40
The true
story of Jeff Bauman, who after losing his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon
bombing, was an integral part of helping police to locate the suspects.
ROCKET* by
Jeffrey Gelber, Ryan Belenzon 37
Roger “The
Rocket” Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, has 4672 strikeouts,
354 wins and a record 7 Cy Young awards. This is the story of why he is not in
the Hall of Fame.
THE
LIBERTINE by Ben Kopit 37
After the
Head of the French National Assembly is placed under house arrest for
accusations of sexual assault, he must live in a guarded apartment with his
estranged wife until the case comes to a close.
CRATER by
John J. Griffin 34
On the
moon, five teens take an unauthorized and adventure-filled road trip, just
before one of them is to be sent away on a seventy-five year journey to another
planet, leaving behind his best friends.
MISS SLOANE
by Jonathan “Jonny” Perera 31
A powerful
lobbyist sacrifices her career on Capitol Hill so she can push through an
amendment enforcing stricter federal laws regulating guns.
TRUE FAN by
John Whittington 28
After
interfering with a foul ball during a Chicago Cubs playoff game, Steve Bartman
was tortured and stalked by die hard Cub fans for potentially costing them
their first National League pennant since 1945. Years later, in a new town with
a new identity—but depressed, overweight and working a dead end job—Steve meets
a woman who gives him a new lease on life and reason to live.
PALE BLUE
DOT by Brian C Brown, Elliot DiGuisseppi 26
Twelve
months after returning from a space mission, decorated astronaut Laura Pepper
is arrested for the attempted murder of a fellow astronaut.
REAGAN by
Mike Rosolio 25
When Ronald
Reagan falls into dementia at the start of his second term, an ambitious intern
is tasked with convincing the commander in chief that he is an actor playing
the president in a movie.
BUMP by Ori
Guendelman, Rob McClelland 21
After an
accidental hit and run, a young lawyer’s entire life unravels over the span of
one night as he attempts to dispose of a corpse that turns out to be much more
than an innocent victim.
ELI by
David Chirchirillo 21
Having
moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, eleven year old
Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, he soon
realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than
they appear.
SEPTILLION
TO ONE by Adam Perlman, Graham Sack 20
While a
former FBI agent is working in the fraud unit of the Texas State Lottery
investigating a woman who has mysteriously hit the lottery jackpot three times,
he falls in love.
WHITE BOY
RICK by Logan Miller, Noah Miller 20
True story
of Richard Wershe Jr., the only successful white boy gangster/drug kingpin in
an African American dominated 1980’s Detroit ghetto.
BOOMTOWN by
Matt King 18
A slick
corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret discovers a sinister
criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country.
DREAMLAND
by Nicolaas Zwart 18
With his
family’s farm on the precipice of foreclosure, fifteen year old Eugene Evans is
determined to capture a fugitive bank robber and collect the bounty on her
head. Against all odds, he beats out the FBI and the local police to capture
her, only to discover that all may not be what it seems.
THE
FISHERMAN by Will Dunn 18
A fisherman
sails out of Martha’s Vineyard in search of the shark that killed his fellow
sailors while they were stranded in the water for four days after their ship
was attacked by a Japanese submarine.
THE WATER
MAN by Emma Needell 18
A young boy
tries to save his mother from terminal cancer by seeking out the town’s
bogeyman, The Water Man, who is fabled to have conquered death.
ALL THE
MONEY IN THE WORLD by David Scarpa 17
The story
of Getty kidnapping crisis encompassing the Red Brigades, the Italian tabloids
and the Vatican.
BOY by
Mattson Tomlin 17
A teenage
boy is born with special abilities and spends his childhood switching names and
cities so as to keep his identity hidden. When he loses control and
accidentally kills his father, he and his mother have to go on the run.
THE SHAVE
by Thomas White, Miles Hubley 17
A dirty
cop, exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, visits the boy’s
father at his barbershop, and while receiving a straight razor shave, listens
to him recount the story of his son’s life.
DO NO HARM
by Julia Cox 16
An
ambitious surgeon’s life takes a dangerous turn when she indulges in an affair
with a doctor whose god complex challenges her own.
HAMMERSPACE
by Mike Van Waes 16
A
terminally-ill teenager looking for answers about his missing father finds a
key that unlocks an opening to an alternate animated dimension and a new friend
who helps him repair his broken family.
THE
WRETCHED EMILY DERRINGER by Chris Thomas Devlin 16
Gleefully
terrifying her small town as a serial killer known as “The Misfit Butcher,”
13-year-old Emily Derringer becomes annoyed when a new killer comes to town and
residents begin attributing his sloppy murders to the Misfit Butcher. In a
macabre coming of age story, Emily must deal with her competition while also
taking on the other trials and tribulations of junior high school life.
PANDEMONIUM,
SPLENDIDLY MANAGED by Brett Conrad 15
A local
Phoenix newscaster at the pinnacle of local celebrity slowly descends into the
depths of madness as he sees his world around him start to crumble piece by
piece all while trying to become a game show host in Los Angeles.
THE
VIRGINIAN by Michael Russell Gunn 15
Based on
the novel by Owen Wister, a young, down-and-out George Washington, desperate to
join the British Army, accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and
save the American colonies.
CASTLE
DRIVE by Matthew Scott Weiner 14
Based on
real events, the story of the writing of Fatal Vision, the 1983 bestselling
true crime classic that chronicles the summer journalist Joe McGinness spent
with “Green Beret Killer” Jeffrey McDonald while he was on trial for the brutal
murder of his wife and children.
CUT AND RUN
by Zoe McCarthy 14
A female
urologist and a retired hooker form an unlikely friendship when they team up to
take down a notorious sex trafficker in Miami.
MAYDAY 109
by Samuel V. Franco, Evan Kilgore 13
Based on
actual events, a young John F. Kennedy struggles to save the crew of his PT
Boat after it is sunk by a Japanese warship during World War II.
MORNINGSTAR
by David Birke 13
The war is
over. A bitter and uneasy truce has been reached with an invading alien race,
and a new cold war has begun. Fueled by suspicions of an alien spy in their
ranks, the United Nations Intelligence Division entrusts their top agent,
Martin Webber, with finding the mole.
MOVE THAT
BODY by Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs 13
Five
friends rent a beach house in Miami for a bachelorette weekend and accidentally
kill a male stripper.
NYAD by
Robert Specland 13
Based on
the true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who in 2013, after 4 failed
attempts and at the age of 64, became the first person ever to open-swim from
Cuba to Florida (55 hours non-stop) overcoming impossible odds, personal
tragedy, and 103 miles of open ocean.
QUEEN OF
THE AIR by Cat Vasko 13
Based on
the book “Queen of the Air” written by Dean N. Jensen. The story of famed
trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel and her relationship with fellow trapeze artist
Alfredo Codona, who were two of the most famous entertainers of the world
during their time.
SPRING
OFFENSIVE by Matthew McInerney-Lacombe 13
Dr. Liz
Scott, a British epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, fights to
contain an outbreak of Ebola in Afghanistan’s war torn Helmand province as the
Taliban’s assault on allied forces threatens to turn the localized outbreak
into a global catastrophe.
THE BURNING
WOMAN by Brad Ingelsby 13
A reckless,
fun-loving young woman confronts the dark side of life after losing her
daughter.
BLACKFRIARS
by Chris Bremner 12
Set around
the Blackfriars massacre of 1978, the true story of a Boston police officer and
a con man-turned-witness, who become unlikely friends hiding out in Bermuda,
ultimately perpetrating a con on the Boston DA they’re tasked to serve.
CIRCLE OF
TREASON by Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel 12
Based on
the book “Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and The Men
He Betrayed” written by Sandra Grimes & Jeanne Vertefeuille. When two women
in the CIA suspect there is a mole working there, they have to overcome the
institution’s hierarchy and chauvinism to bring down the traitor.
STAR ONE by
David Coggeshall 12
Two CIA
agents must overcome their opposing worldviews to evade the Soviet and Chinese
armies during a dangerous mission to Tibet in 1950. The true story of the first
CIA agent ever to die in the line of duty; the “first star’ on the CIA Memorial
Wall.
THE SET UP
by Kari Granlund 12
Two
co-dependent female best friends’s friendship is put through the wringer after
a blind date gone awry sends them on a dangerous, all-in-one-night adventure
with a drug dealer.
BARE
KNUCKLE by Dave Matillo 11
New York
City 1862: The bare knuckle boxing champion, Bad Jack, develops a crush on a
common French girl and uses his political influence to send her Irish lumberman
husband off to the Civil War so he can take her for his own. Unfortunately for
Bad Jack, the Irishman doesn’t die in the war and t comes back a killer looking
to exact revenge on the pugilist and his entire corrupt entourage.
CHAPPAQUIDDICK
by Taylor Allen, Andrew Logan 11
A
historically factual look at what really happened when Ted Kennedy drove off
the road into a Martha’s Vineyard bay with Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.
GREAT FALLS
by Andy Friedhof 11
After
negligently killing a hunter with their patrol car, an alcoholic Sheriff’s
Deputy and her superior officer must decide what to do with the only witness to
their crime – a death row inmate only days from execution.
HUNTING
EICHMANN by Matthew Orton 11
The
thrilling capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by a secret Mossad team
in South America.
A SPECK IN
THE SEA by Jeff Pope 10
Based on
the article “A Speck in the Sea” by Paul Tough. The true story of the rescue of
lobster fisherman John Aldridge who fell into the ocean in the middle of the
night on July 24th, forty miles off Montauk with no life vest and no way to
signal where he was.
BATTLE OF
NEW ORLEANS by Dan Kunka 10
In one of
the greatest untold stories in American history, General and future President
Andrew Jackson reluctantly partners with world-renowned pirate Jean Lafitte to
lead a rag-tag team of soldiers against the indomitable British Army in the
climactic battle of the War of 1812.
CRIMSON
TRAIL by Jeremy Shipp 10
Devastated
by the cold-blooded murder of his family, a devout frontier preacher risks his
soul to lead a posse in pursuit of the Harpe Brothers—America’s first serial
killers. Based on a true story.
LABYRINTH
by Christian Contreras 10
Based on
the book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan. The story of the investigation into the
murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG.
OUR WEEK
WITH WALLER by Evan Mirzai, Shea Mirzai 10
After
getting laid off, two Americans cash in their vacation pay and head to Spain
where their paths collide with one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists.
SET IT UP
by Katie Silberman 10
Two young
assistants realize they can get more free time if they occupy their bosses’
time by setting them up on a date.
UNTITLED
SOCIOPATH PROJECT by Topher Rhys-Lawrence 10
A
successful New Yorker’s seemingly perfect life starts unraveling once he’s
suspected for the murder of his co-worker, and his only alibi is the
doppelganger that’s begun stalking him.
ARES by
Geneva Robertson-Dworet 9
The survival
story of an astronaut whose space capsule crash lands in the African desert and
whose mission to space was part of a larger conspiracy.
FINAL
JOURNEY by Michael Lee Barlin 9
A
mistreated elderly Inuit woman is forced out of her village to survive alone on
the savage arctic tundra.
MILITIA by
Henry Dunham 9
After a
shooting on a police funeral by a suspected militia member, a recluse ex-cop
and fellow militia man must interrogate the suspected gunmen in his own militia
before copycat attacks start a nationwide war between cops and militias.
SALEM by
Mark Bianculli, Jeff Richard 9
Fifteen
years after the witch trials, the scars of Salem are reopened when young women
begin showing up dead. Desperate for answers, the town elders turn to a man of
science to uncover the truth behind its terrifying events plaguing their
community.
TOMORROW ON
THE RUNWAY by Frederick Seton 9
Kermit St.
Lucy has a ridiculous name and is ridiculously ill-equipped to deal with adult
responsibilities. After a tragedy shakes him to his core, Kermit takes it upon
himself to look after and raise two young children.
TREASURE
ISLAND by James Coyne 9
Based on
the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, young Jim Hawkins finds a map to a buried
fortune; to claim it means a perilous voyage, pirate treachery, and the wicked
mentorship of Long John Silver.
UNTITLED
LARRY HILLBLOM PROJECT by Matt Portenoy 9
The strange-yet-true
story of the battle over the estate of Larry Lee Hillblom, billionaire founder
of DHL.
A LIFE
FANTASTIC by Natalie Antoci 8
A single
mother with a terminal diagnosis embarks on a road trip with her eccentric 9
year old son and nanny to find a loving and progressive family that will accept
him for whoever he may grow up to be.
AN AFRICAN
WESTERN by Chloe Castellon, Ridgeway Wilson 8
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.
ATLANTIC
WALL by Zach Dean 8
A lone
American paratrooper, stranded behind enemy lines hours before D-Day, is tasked
with delivering intelligence critical to the outcome of the war and compelled
to fulfill a promise to protect the young son of a murdered ally.
BED REST by
Lori Evans Taylor 8
An
expectant mother who is confined to bed rest starts to experience paranormal
events.
I BELIEVE
IN AMERICA by Terry Clyne 8
A
behind-the-scenes look at the making of THE GODFATHER, revealing that the
creative forces behind one of the finest American films ever made were all as
cunning and ruthless as the mobsters portrayed in Mario Puzo’s bestseller.
IDA TARBELL
by Mark McDevitt 8
Ida
Tarbell’s magazine series “The History of the Standard Oil Company,” not only
changed the history of journalism but also the fate of Rockefeller’s empire,
which was shaken by the powerful pen of its most implacable observer.
LOU by
Maggie McGowan Cohn 8
An elderly
woman who hacks out a rough existence on a remote island is forced to help her
dimwitted neighbor rescue her daughter whose ex has kidnapped her and escaped
into the woods.
PRECONCEPTION
by Jake Morse, Scott Wolman 8
A couple on
the verge of parenthood embarks on a pre-baby bucket list.
SENIOR YEAR
by Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli 8
A
cheerleader wakes up after a twenty year coma and returns to sit at the cool
table and try to become prom queen, as a thirty seven year-old woman. V
ERONA by
Neil Widener, Gavin James 8
A
re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
105 AND
RISING by Andrew Cypiot 7
Amid the
chaos of a fILling nation on April 29, 1975, the objective was clear: safely
evacuate all remaining Americans from Saigon. But to Major Jim Kean and
Ambassador Graham Martin, the moment represented something else: the final
opportunity to uphold promises and obligations to the people of South Vietnam.
FREE AGENT
by Sam Regnier 7
A female
NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of
her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a
younger colleague and his teenage sister.
HOMEGROWN
by Jacques Edeline 7
A teenage
boy, raised in total seclusion and indoctrinated by his enigmatic father, is
sent to live with a foster family and enrolled in a public high school when his
father is incarcerated, threatening their relationship and causing the boy to
question everything he’s learned.
THE BOY by
Owen Egerton 7
Sixteen
years after stabbing a classmate to appease a legendary phantom known as the
Boy, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and
nephew, but as the Boy continues to haunt her she must face her deepest terror
and discover the truth about the Boy before he claims her nephew.
CARNIVAL by
Matias Caruso 6
A deadly
carnival knife-thrower hunts down the members of a powerful crime syndicate who
murdered his sister.
CROOK
COUNTY by Gita Pullapilly, Aron Gaudet 6
A
whistleblower’s harrowing journey into an undercover FBI operation in 1980’s
Cook County, Illinois, sending him toe-to-toe with corrupt judges, hustling
defense attorneys, and Chicago mobsters; and ultimately resulting in the
largest number of convictions of government officials in the history of the
United States.
DAMSEL by
Bryan McMullin 6
After first
being locked in a tower and then hidden deep in the forest to prevent a prince
from rescuing her, long-haired Rapunzel vows to get revenge.
FRANCIS AND
THE GODFATHER by Andrew Farotte 6
Facing
financial ruin, auteur filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is forced to direct the
adaptation of Mario Puzo’s pulp novel The Godfather, pitting him against
legendary mega-producer Robert Evans.
GREEN RIVER
KILLER by Michael Sheen 6
Based on
the Eisner Award winning graphic novel of the same name. Detectives in the
Green River Killer case attempt to unravel both the facts behind the gruesome
murders that plagued the Pacific North West for over a decade and the psychosis
of the killer they find themselves face to face with.
LANDSLIDE
by Will Staples, Tony Camerino 6
Based on
the book How to Break a Terrorist by Tony Camerino. The story of America’s
search for terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the man who played a key role in
tracking him down by using psychological warfare.
RESURFACE
by Pete Bridges 6
An
underwater earthquake decimates a research crew working at the bottom of the
Mariana Trench, leaving two survivors with limited resources to ascend 35,000
feet and reach the surface before their life support runs out.
SONGS OF
TREBLINKA by Viorica Blan 6
Based on a
true story. A renowned Jewish conductor plots a revolt with fellow prisoners as
he attracts the respect of his Nazi captors in Poland’s most notorious death
camp.
THE CANYON
by Alex Koplow 6
When
parents reunite with their grown children for a road trip to hike the Grand
Canyon, the family conflicts on the way prove far more grueling than the twenty
mile hike.
THREE
MONTHS by Jared Frieder 6
After being
exposed to HIV the weekend of his high school graduation in 2011, a punk gay
teenager from Miami attempts to start a new relationship with a someone from
his support group as they try to endure the three months it takes to get
accurately tested.
WISH UPON
by Barbara Marshall 6
When
Claire, a sixteen year old misfit, finds a magic box that promises a chance at
the life she has always wanted, she never could have guessed that each wish
would demand a deadly payment.
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