Genre: Crime/Drama/ThrillerPremise: (from IMDB) When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.About: William Friedkin, the famed director of The Exorcist, has been sitting on a Scriptshadow favorite, the dual-female captive script, Sunflower, for a long time. […]

Genre: ComedyPremise: When he suspects that his long-time astronaut girlfriend might be cheating on him up on the International Space Station, Doug, a janitor for NASA, decides to head into space to stop her. About: Space Invader has been kicking around development for a couple of years now. At one point it was gearing up […]

Genre: DramedyPremise: A young man moves to Los Angeles and spends the next 30 years trying to break into acting.About: Edward Ford is considered by many to be one of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Lem Dobbs, the writer, wrote the script based on a real person. It is loved so much that even […]

Genre: Indie/Drama/Love StoryPremise: After a young woman in a small town finds out she’s going to die, she meets a man who will go to the ends of the earth to preserve her memory. About: This was one of the ten finalists in the 2010 Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting contest. The Nicholl is the biggest screenwriting […]

Man, I don’t think I’ve read a single one of these.  If you have any of them, please send them my way!  Oh yeah, The Brit List is a list of the best unproduced screenplays from British writers. (edit: Okay, got’em.  Now, if you’ve read any of these and have an opinion, please drop a […]