On the way back to her hometown for her dad’s wedding, Hazel gets drunk and makes out with an older, attractive female flight attendant. Twenty-four-year-old, quiet, self-conscious Hazel has struggled with her sexuality ever since her conservative dad walked in on her kissing a girl at a middle school sleepover and flipped his absolute shit. Davila directed the short “Emergency,” which won Best Narrative Short at SXSW 2018. Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an emergency.Īmazon Studios is listed as financier. Two newlyweds traverse a fictional country on their honeymoon but slowly realize they’re yearning to take separate journeys. Legendary Entertainment is listed as financier. When a woman on an interstellar voyage falls in love with someone during a cryosleep simulation, she attempts to discern whether the man is a real passenger on the ship or just a figment of her imagination. Two astronauts who think they’ve been lost in space forever fall in love, becoming content with their isolated lives, only to suddenly have to return to Earth.Ī high school senior attempts to get her principal fired after observing racist behavior, but she quickly learns he won’t go down without a fight.īRON Studios is producing the film, in which Taraji P. “If You Were the Last” by Angela Bourassa “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” by Dave CollardĪn adaptation of David Sharp’s book “The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation” that chronicles the clandestine CIA operation that risked igniting WWIII by recovering a nuclear armed Soviet sub, the K-129, that sunk to the bottom of the ocean in 1968. There are several screenplays set in space - including one about astronauts coping during a pandemic - and several concerned with the origin stories of cultural institutions: Marvel, Vice magazine, and Beanie Babies.Ī high-functioning cannibal selects his victims based on their Instagram popularity, but finds his habits shaken by a man who wants to be eatenĪ young Asian-American teen and basketball fanatic who just wants to dunk and get the girl ends up learning much more about himself, his best friends, and his mother. Several of the scripts follow people of color or trans people.
But no production company is more represented than Amazon, which is listed as financing five projects. Many are already in the works from various studios, including Apple TV+, Netflix, A24, Blumhouse, Paramount, and Sony.
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Since then many of the included scripts have gone on to be produced, often to great acclaim. Scripts had to receive mentions from at least seven of those executives to be included on this year’s Black List.
This year’s list was compiled from suggestions of over 375 film executives, who contributed up to 10 feature screenplays that were written in, or somehow uniquely associated with 2020 and will not begin principal photography during the year. The 16th annual Black List survey was released on Monday, showcasing 80 of the most popular un-produced scripts from up-and-coming screenwriters.