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Fox Searchlight purchased the script.ģ2 votes: 999 by Matt Cook. After the death of her father, a teenage girl must deal with a mysterious uncle. Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington to star.ģ9 votes: Stoker by Wentworth Miller. Universal Pictures to produce with Daniel Espinoza to direct. A young man at a CIA-run safe house must help a rogue ex-agent escape assassins. Doug Liman may direct.Ĥ3 votes: Safe House by David Guggenheim. A new army recruit in a war against aliens finds himself caught in a time loop. Darren Aronofsky directing for Fox Searchlight.Ĥ5 votes: All You Need Is Kill by Dante Harper. Jacqueline Kennedy’s life immediately after her husband’s assassination.

Anonymous Content producing.Ĥ7 votes: Jackie by Noah Oppenheim. Aspiring politician Karl Rove leads a dirty campaign for College Republican chairman under the guidance of Lee Atwater. LA Times also has a piece on the man behind the list, which you can read here.Ĥ9 votes: College Republicans by Wes Jones.

#The hit list screenplays update

We also reported on Oldboy director Park Chan-wook‘s English language debut with Carey Mulligan attached, Stoker.Ĭheck out the top ten below via LA Times and we will update when the full list comes in. As for the rest of the list, I’ll be seeing Margin Call (pictured above) at Sundance 2011 and Safe House goes into production next year. The top one this year, College Republicans, has Shia LaBeouf and Paul Dano attached. The year before was The Beaver, now starring Mel Gibson and set for a release in 2011. Last year the top script was The Muppet Man from Christopher Weekes about “the life and times of the late Jim Henson.” Coming in second was Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Network script, which is a current frontrunner to sweep the Oscars. This fine December day marks the release of the 6th annual Black List, a ranked collection of the top un-produced screenplays in the town, compiled by Leonard. Some of this high-octane drama was lost in the screen translation, which is a shame, since the script is as good as it gets.Frank Leonard is the most popular man in Hollywood today.

In one instance he 'trades up' for superstar Bo Callahan, sacrificing his team's first round picks for the next four years, and then doubts whether Callahan is the man for the team after all.ĭraft Day reads like it's set in a warzone, and shines a light on the frenzied backstairs machinations that besets the NFL on transfer day.

Sonny Jnr is hit with setback after setback he's a laughing stock, the players are against him, the fans are against him, he's being outmanoeuvred by rival clubs, he's forced to take wildly risky chances on superstar players. The reason Draft Day works so well as a script is it follows one of the central tenets of screenwriting which is, 'thou shalt make things as hard as possible for your protagonist.'.

SummitĮverything that can go wrong does go wrong for our poor beleaguered coach, Sonny Weaver Jnr, general manager of the declining Buffalo Bills and son to the beloved Sonny Weaver, the talismanic icon of the Buffalo's, whom Sonny Jnr fired-talk about a gutsy call! Worse, Sonny's dad's just died today, which coincides with the day all hell breaks loose on the trading floor that is the drafting system of NFL-in short, it's a tough day for Sonny Jnr to navigate. Everything happened at a million miles an hour in this script, every decision was made in relation to a ticking clock, the frantic backroom panic was visceral and credible. Its focus on deadline day was a novel approach to the sports drama genre, imbuing the script with an immediacy and urgency we hadn't seen before. The story of a single hectic day, the eponymous Draft Day of the NFL, was a surprise hit in the screenwriting community, indeed, becoming the number one script of 2012's Black List, a listing of the best unproduced screenplays of the year.