The Black List (survey)

The Black List is an annual survey of the "most-liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. It has been published every year since 2005 on the second Friday of December by Franklin Leonard, a development executive who subsequently worked at Universal Pictures^[1] and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.^[2][3][4] The website states that these are not necessarily "the best" screenplays, but rather "the most liked", since it is based on a survey of studio and production company executives.^[5]

The Black List
Created	2004; 19 years ago (2004)
Location	blcklst.com/lists/
Author(s)	Franklin Leonard
Purpose	Ranking of top unproduced screenplays

Of the more than 1,000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, 440 have been produced as theatrical films,^[6] including Argo,^[7] American Hustle, Juno,^[1] The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire,^[8] Spotlight,^[9] The Revenant, The Descendants, and Hell or High Water. The produced films have together grossed over $30 billion,^[9] and been nominated for 241 Academy Awards and 205 Golden Globe Awards, winning 50^[10] and 40 respectively. As of the 92nd Academy Awards, four of the last 10 Academy Awards for Best Picture went to scripts featured on a previous Black List, as well as 12 of the last 20 screenwriting Oscars (Original and Adapted Screenplays).^[11] Additionally, writers whose scripts are listed often find that they are more readily hired for other jobs, even if their listed screenplays still have not been produced, such as Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, two of the writers of the screenplay for The Descendants, who had an earlier screenplay make the list.^[3] Slate columnist David Haglund has written that the list's reputation as a champion for "beloved but challenging" works has been overstated, since "these are screenplays that are already making the Hollywood rounds. And while, as a rule, they have not yet been produced, many of them are already in production."^[12]

On January 27, 2019, at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, it was announced that the LGBT media advocacy group GLAAD had partnered with The Black List to create The GLAAD List, a new curated list of the most promising unmade LGBT-inclusive scripts in Hollywood.^[13]

History

 

A Black List live script reading panel at the 2018 ATX Television Festival (pictured from L–R): Moderator Franklin Leonard, with Matt Lauria, James Lafferty, Jason George, Katherine Willis, Taylor Dearden, Nick Wechsler, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and Riley Scott.

The first Black List was compiled in 2005 by Franklin Leonard, at the time working as a development executive for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way Productions. He emailed about 75 fellow development executives and asked them to name the ten best unproduced screenplays they read that year.^[14] To thank them for participating, he compiled the list and sent it to the respondents. The name The Black List was a nod to his heritage as an African American man, and also as a subtle reference to the writers who were barred during the McCarthy era as part of the Hollywood blacklist.^[15]

The screenplays to top The Black List, from 2005 to 2022 respectively, are: Things We Lost in the Fire; The Brigands of Rattleborge; Recount; The Beaver; The Muppet Man; College Republicans; The Imitation Game; Draft Day; Holland, Michigan; Catherine the Great; Bubbles; Blond Ambition; Ruin; Frat Boy Genius; Move On; Headhunter; Cauliflower, and Pure.

Structure

The Black List tallies the number of "likes" various screenplays are given by development executives, and then ranks them accordingly. The most-liked screenplay is The Imitation Game, which topped the list in 2011 with 133 likes; it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015.^[16]

Films on the Black List

Main article: List of produced films included in The Black List

More than 440 screenplays have been put into production after appearing on The Black List.^[11] These include:

2005 Black List

(120/286 screenplays have been put in production)

• One Percent More Humid (2017)
• 21 (2008)
• The American (2010) – then titled A Very Private Gentleman, by Laura Harrington
• All God's Children Can Dance (2009) – then titled K-Town Super Frog
• Altered Carbon (2018–2020) – adapted to television
• Anonymous (2011) – then titled Soul of the Age
• Armored (2009)
• Babel (2006)
• Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
• Black Snake Moan (2006)
• Blades of Glory (2007)
• Blind (2016)
• Blood Diamond (2006)
• Breach (2007)
• The Brothers Solomon (2007)
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Carnival Row (2019) – then titled A Killing on Carnival Row; adapted to television^[17]
• Chapter 27 (2007)
• Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
• Charlie Bartlett (2007)
• Cougars, Inc. (2011) – then titled Mother's Little Helpers
• Dan in Real Life (2007)
• Dangerous Parking (2007)
• Dark Around the Stars (2013) – then titled Stars
• Death at a Funeral (2010)
• Delirium (2018) – then titled Home
• Dexter (2006–2013) – adapted to television
• Disturbia (2007)
• The Dirt (2019)
• Dream House (2011)
• Eight Below (2006) – then titled Antarctica
• Ender's Game (2013)
• The Expendables (2010) – then titled Barrow
• Factory Girl (2006)
• Fanboys (2009)
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
• The Forger (2014)
• Freedomland (2006)
• Fur (2006)
• The Game Plan (2007) – then titled Daddy's Little Girl
• Get Low (2009)
• The Good Lie (2014) – then titled Lost Boys of Sudan
• A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
• Hall Pass (2011)
• Hancock (2008) – then titled Tonight, He Comes
• Harold (2008)
• The Hawk Is Dying (2006)
• The Highwaymen (2019)
• The Hoax (2006)
• Horrible Bosses (2011)
• Hot Rod (2007)
• The Hunting Party (2007) – then titled Spring Break in Bosnia
• Infamous (2006)
• In Secret (2013) – then titled Terese Raquin
• Juno (2007)
• Killer Elite (2011)
• King of California (2007)
• The Kingdom (2007)
• The Kite Runner (2007)
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
• The Ledge (2011)
• Legendary (2010) – then titled Oxley's Road
• Life After Beth (2014) – then titled Winged Life
• The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) – then titled In Bloom
• Little Children (2006)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
• Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
• The Maiden Heist (2009) – then titled Lonely Maiden
• Mama's Boy (2007)
• Margaret (2011)
• Married Life (2007) – then titled Marriage
• Meet Bill (2007) – then titled Bill
• Meet Dave (2008) – then titled Starship Dave
• Message from the King (2016)
• Michael Clayton (2007)
• A Million Little Pieces (2019)
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)
• Nacho Libre (2006)
• Nebraska (2013)
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
• Not Another Happy Ending (2013) – then titled Happy Endings
• Notes on a Scandal (2006)
• The Number 23 (2007)
• The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
• The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
• Pathfinder (2007)
• Passengers (2008)
• Peacock (2010)
• Post Grad (2009) – then titled Ticket to Ride
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Proposal (2009)
• The Promotion (2008)
• The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
• Pu-239 (2006)
• Quid Pro Quo (2008)
• The Queen (2006)
• Reservation Road (2007)
• Righteous Kill (2008)
• The Sasquatch Gang (2006) – then titled The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang
• Stardust (2007)
• The Starling (2021)
• Stop-Loss (2008)
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007) – then titled Studio 7
• The Ten (2007)
• Tenure (2009)
• Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
• The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
• Turistas (2006)
• Under the Skin (2013)
• Wanted (2008)
• We Are Marshall (2006)
• The Whistleblower (2010)
• Wild Hogs (2007)
• The Words (2012)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
• The Year of Getting to Know Us (2008)
• Youth in Revolt (2009)
• Zodiac (2007)

2006 Black List

(40/87 screenplays have been put into production)

• 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
• 500 Days of Summer (2009)
• A Mighty Heart (2007)
• All About Steve (2009)
• Assassination of a High School President (2008)
• Away We Go (2009) – then titled This Must Be the Place
• The Brothers Bloom (2008)
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Changeling (2008)
• Crash Pad (2017) – then titled Bim Bam Baby
• Curve (2015)
• Dear Dictator (2018) – then titled Coup d'Etat
• Death at a Funeral (2007)
• The Devil's Double (2011)
• The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
• Dracula Untold (2014) – then titled Dracula Year Zero
• The Fighter (2010)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Get Smart (2008)
• Hanna (2011)
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
• In Bruges (2008)
• Life of Pi (2012)
• Lions for Lambs (2007)
• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
• The Messenger (2009)
• Natural Selection (2009)
• The Other Woman (2009) – then titled Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
• Open Grave (2013)
• Rendition (2007)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) – then titled Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
• Seven Pounds (2008)
• Seven Psychopaths (2012)
• She's Out of My League (2010)
• State of Play (2009)
• Superbad (2007)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• Year of the Dog (2007)

2007 Black List

• The Answer Man (2009)
• Adventureland (2009)
• All Good Things (2010)
• Big Eyes (2014)
• Blindness (2008)
• Blitz (2008)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
• The Book of Eli (2010)
• The Book of Love (2016)
• Burn After Reading (2008)
• Burnt (2015)
• Charlie Countryman (2013)
• Clash of the Titans (2010)
• Dear John (2010)
• Demolition (2015)
• Dirty Girl (2010)
• Doubt (2008)
• The Duchess (2008)
• Duplicity (2009)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Felt (2017)
• Genius (2016)
• The Hangover (2009)
• Happy. Thank You. More. Please. (2010)
• Hitchcock (2012)
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
• The Ides of March (2011)
• The Invention of Lying (2009)
• Invictus (2009)
• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) – then titled Dubai
• Jennifer's Body (2009)
• Justice League (2017)
• Last Chance Harvey (2008)
• Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992 (2017)^[a]
• Love & Other Drugs (2010)
• Management (2009)
• Never Let Me Go (2010)
• Orphan (2009)
• Passengers (2016)
• Recount (2008)
• The Revenant (2015)
• The Road (2009)
• Salt (2010)
• Selma (2014)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• Source Code (2011)
• The Town (2010)
• Valkyrie (2008)
• The Wackness (2008)
• The Way, Way Back (2013)
• Whip It (2009)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• World War Z (2013)
• The Wrestler (2008)
• Yes Man (2008)
• Zombieland (2009)

2008 Black List

(39/105 screenplays have been put into production)^[18]

• 47 Ronin (2013)
• 50/50 (2011) – then titled I'm With Cancer
• A.C.O.D. (2013) – then titled ACOD: Adult Children of Divorce
• All I Wish (2017) – then titled A Little Something for Your Birthday
• Bachelorette (2012)
• The Back-up Plan (2010) – then titled Plan B
• Bad Teacher (2011)
• The Beaver (2011)
• Big Hole
• Broken City (2013)
• Butter (2011)
• Child 44 (2015)
• Cop Out (2010) – then titled A Couple of Dicks
• Date and Switch (2014) – then titled Gay Dude
• The Debt (2010)
• The Descendants (2011)
• Easy A (2010)
• Everything Must Go (2010)
• The F Word (2013) – then titled The F-Word
• Foxcatcher (2014)
• The Fourth Kind (2009)
• Galahad
• Going the Distance (2010)
• Hope Springs (2012) – then titled Untitled Vanessa Taylor Project
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Killing Season (2013) – then titled Shrapnel
• London Boulevard (2010)
• Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story^[b]
• No Strings Attached (2011) – then titled Fuckbuddies
• Nowhere Boy (2009)
• The Oranges (2011)
• Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
• Out of the Furnace (2013) – then titled The Low Dweller
• Remember Me (2010) – then titled Memoirs
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Sleeping Beauty (2011)
• Unlocked (2017)
• Up in the Air (2009)
• What's Your Number? (2011) – then titled Twenty Times a Lady
• Winter's Discontent
• Worth (2020) – then titled What Is Life Worth?

2009 Black List

(42/97 screenplays have been put into production)^[19]

• 2 Guns (2013)
• 30 Minutes or Less (2011)
• Arthur (2011)
• The Baytown Outlaws (2012) – then titled Baytown Disco
• Booksmart (2019)
• Buried (2010)
• Cedar Rapids (2011)
• Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)
• Cut Bank (2014)
• Dark Was the Night (2014) – then titled The Trees
• Desperados (2020)
• Due Date (2010)
• The Duel (2016) – then titled By Way of Helena
• Feud (2017–present) – then titled Best Actress; adapted to television as an audience anthology series
• Gangster Squad (2013) – then titled LA REX
• The Guilt Trip (2012) – then titled My Mother’s Curse
• Hanna (2011)
• If I Stay (2014)
• The King's Speech (2010)
• The Kings of Summer (2013) – then titled Toy's House
• The Last Stand (2013)
• Lawless (2012) – then titled The Wettest County
• Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Red Riding Hood (2011) – then titled The Girl With the Red Riding Hood
• Restless (2011)
• Seeking Justice (2011) – then titled The Hungry Rabbit Jumps
• Shimmer Lake (2017)
• The Sitter (2011)
• The Social Network (2010)
• The Spectacular Now (2013)
• Take This Waltz (2011)
• That's My Boy (2012) – then titled I Hate You Dad
• The To Do List (2013) – then titled The Hand Job
• The True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016)
• The Umbrella Academy – screenplay by Mark Bomback^[c]
• The Vatican Tapes (2015)
• The Voices (2014)
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) – then titled Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps
• The Watch (2012) – then titled Neighborhood Watch
• Water for Elephants (2011)
• Z for Zachariah (2015)

2010 Black List

(44/76 screenplays have been put into production)^[20]

• Abduction (2011)
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
• American Hustle (2013) – then titled American Bullshit
• Argo (2012)
• ATM (2012)
• Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
• The Butler (2013)
• Can You Keep a Secret? (2019) – screenplay by Megan Martin
• Chronicle (2012)
• Cinema Verite (2011)
• Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
• Danny Collins (2015) – then titled Imagine
• Die in a Gunfight (2021)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014) – then titled All You Need Is Kill, by Dante Harper
• Everly (2014)
• Freaks of Nature (2015) – then titled Kitchen Sink
• Fun Size (2012)
• Gangster Squad (2013) – then titled LA REX
• Get a Job (2016)
• Gold (2016)
• The Hunger Games (2012) – then titled Hunger Games
• The Impossible (2012)
• Jackie (2016)
• The Last Son (2021) – then titled The Last Son of Isaac LeMay
• The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
• Lola Versus (2012)
• Looper (2012)
• Margin Call (2011)
• Murder of a Cat (2014)
• One Day (2011)
• Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) – then titled Oz: The Great and Powerful
• People Like Us (2012) – then titled Welcome to People
• Paint (2023)
• Prom (2011)
• Safe House (2012)
• Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) – then titled Boy Scouts vs. Zombies
• Search Party (2014) – then titled Road to Nardo
• Serena (2014)
• Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
• Stoker (2013)
• That Awkward Moment (2014) – then titled Are We Officially Dating?
• Triple 9 (2016) – then titled 999
• What Happened to Monday (2017) – then titled What Happened to Monday?

2011 Black List

(28/71 screenplays have been put into production)^[8][21]

• 77
• The Accountant (2016)
• Arizona (2018)
• Bad Words (2013)
• Before I Fall (2017)
• Bethlehem
• Beyond The Pale
• The Big Stone Grid
• The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
• Breyton Ave
• Christo
• Cities of Refuge
• Crazy for the Storm
• The Current War (2017)
• Dead of Winter
• Desperate Hours
• Dirty Grandpa (2016)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• The Duff (2015)
• El Fuego Caliente
• The End
• Ezekiel Moss
• Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses
• Father Figures (2017) – then titled Bastards
• Flarsky
• The Flamingo Thief
• Friend of Bill
• Future Man (2017–2020) – adapted to television
• Good Kids (2016)
• Grace of Monaco (2014)
• Grim Night
• The Gun Eaters
• Guys Night
• He's F****n Perfect
• Hidden (2015)
• The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
• Home By Christmas
• How to Disappear Completely
• Hyperdrive
• The Imitation Game (2014)
• In the Event of a Moon Disaster
• Jane Got a Gun (2015)
• The Knoll
• The Last Drop
• The Last Witness
• Line of Sight
• Little White Corvette
• Long Shot (2019)
• Maggie (2015)
• A Many Splintered Thing
• Murders and Acquisitions
• On A Clear Day
• The Outsider (2018)
• Pinocchio
• Playing It Cool (2015)
• Powell
• The Pretty One (2013)
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
• Self/less (2015)
• Sex Tape (2014)
• The Slackfi Project
• St. Vincent (2014) – then titled St. Vincent de Van Nuys
• The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto
• Two Night Stand (2014)
• The Wedding
• Untitled Arizona Project
• Untitled Hlavin Heist
• When the Streetlights Go On (2020–present) – adapted to television

2012 Black List

• Arrival (2016)
• Blockers (2018)
• Come and Find Me (2016)
• Don't Make Me Go (2022)
• Draft Day (2014)
• The Equalizer (2014)
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
• Fathers and Daughters (2015)
• The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
• Flower (2017)
• Hell or High Water (2016)
• Jojo Rabbit (2019)
• The Judge (2014)
• The Keeping Room (2014)
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
• The Outcasts (2017)
• Project Almanac (2015)
• Run All Night (2015)
• Sand Castle (2017)
• Shut In (2016)
• Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
• The Survivalist (2015)
• Sweet Virginia (2017)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Whiplash (2014)

2013 Black List

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
• American Sniper (2014)
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
• Cake (2014)
• Dude (2018)
• The End of the Tour (2015)
• Faults (2014)
• The Gateway (2021)
• Hot Summer Nights (2017)
• A Monster Calls (2016)
• Pan (2015)
• Patient Zero (2018)
• The Sea of Trees (2015)
• Shovel Buddies (2016)
• Spotlight (2015)

2014 Black List

(17/70 screenplays have been put into production)^[22]

• American Made (2017)
• The Babysitter (2017)
• Big Time Adolescence (2019)
• Bird Box (2018)
• Coffee and Kareem (2020)
• The Founder (2016)
• Gifted (2017)
• Josie (2018)
• LBJ (2016)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Money Monster (2016)
• Morgan (2016)
• My Friend Dahmer (2017)
• On the Basis of Sex (2018)
• The Shallows (2016)
• The Wall (2017)
• Tau (2018)

2015 Black List

(15/81 screenplays have been put into production)^[23]

• All the Money in the World (2017)
• American Woman (2018)
• City of Lies (2017)
• Chappaquiddick (2017)
• Crater (TBA)
• Dreamland (2019)
• Eli (2019)
• Lucy in the Sky (2019)
• Miss Sloane (2016)
• Operation Finale (2018)
• Rough Night (2017)
• Set It Up (2018)
• Stronger (2017)
• Wish Upon (2017)
• White Boy Rick (2018)

2016 Black List

(14/73 screenplays have been put into production)^[24]

• Adrift (2018)
• Bad Education (2019)
• Free Guy (2021)
• Hala (2019)
• Hotel Artemis (2018)
• I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
• I Am Mother (2019)
• I, Tonya (2017)
• Late Night (2019)
• Life Itself (2018)
• Oxygen (2021)
• The Post (2017)
• Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
• Villains (2019)

2017 Black List

(10/76 films have been put into production^[25])

• All My Life (2021)
• American Tabloid
• Arc of Justice
• Ballerina
• Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
• Brosio
• Call Jane (2022)
• Cancer Inc.
• Come As You Are
• Daddio
• The Dating Game (TBA) - then called Rodney & Sheryl
• Don't Be Evil
• Dorothy & Alice
• Escape
• Escape From the North Pole
• The Expansion Project
• The Fifth Nixon
• Finch (2021) – then titled Bios
• Fubar
• Gadabout
• George
• The Great Nothing
• Greenland
• Green Rush
• The Grownup
• Hack
• Health and Wellness
• Heart of the Beast
• Hughes
• Infinite (2021)
• Innocent Monsters
• Jellyfish Summer
• Jihotties
• Kate (2021)
• Keeper of the Diary
• Key of Genius
• Kill Shelter
• The Kingbreaker
• Let Her Speak
• Liberation
• Lionhunters
• Little Boy
• The Lodge (2019)
• Mad, Bad, And Dangerous to Know
• The Man From Tomorrow
• Meat
• The Mother
• Moxie (2021)
• Newsflash
• On
• One Thousand Paper Cranes
• The Other Lamb
• Panopticon
• The Poison Squad
• Power
• The Prospect
• Queen Elizabeth
• Ruin
• Ruthless
• The Saviors
• Skyward
• The Sleepover (2020)
• Sleep Well Tonight
• Social Justice Warrior
• Strongman
• The Survivor (2021) – then titled The Boxer
• The Thing About Jellyfish
• This Is Jane
• Trapline
• Valedictorian
• V.I.N.
• When In Doubt, Seduce
• When Lightning Strikes
• Where I End
• The White Devils
• Wyler

2018 Black List

(8/73 screenplays have been put into production)^[26]

• (Please) Maternity Leave
• 29th Accident
• 73 Seconds
• AMA (Ask Me Anything)
• Analytica
• At Risk
• Bag Man
• The Beast
• The Biscuit
• Black Flies
• Blur
• Bolsa Negra
• The Broodmare
• CI-34
• Cobweb (TBA)
• Conviction
• Dark
• Dead Dads Club
• The Defender
• Drudge
• Escher
• The Fastest Game
• Frat Boy Genius
• Get Home Safe
• Grace
• Gunfight
• The Half of It
• Happy Anniversary
• Happy Little Trees
• Hare
• In Retrospect
• Infidels
• Inhuman Nature
• The Interventionist
• Isleworth
• Just the Facts
• Just Girl
• The High Note (2020) – then titled Covers
• The Half of It (2020)
• Harry's All Night Hamburgers
• Kill the Leopard
• King Richard (2021)
• The Kings of Cool
• The Liberators
• Little Fish (2021)
• Mamba
• Me & Tammy Faye at the Betty Ford Clinic
• Meet Cute (2022)
• Naked Is the Best Disguise
• Nobody Nothing Nowhere
• One Night in Mississippi
• Our Condolences
• Popular
• Promising Young Woman (2020)
• Queen
• Queen & Slim (2019)
• Queens of the Stoned Age
• Ride
• Rub & Tug
• Saddam & Me
• The Second Life of Ben Haskins
• The Seventh
• Sharon
• Spark
• Tillman
• To the Extreme
• The United States of America v. Bill Gates
• Untitled Coast Guard
• Untitled Syria Project
• Welcome to the Neighborhood
• Wendi
• The Worst Guy of All Time (And the Girl Who Came to Kill Him)
• Young. Wild. Free.
• Your Boy

2019 Black List

(9/66 screenplays have been put into production)^[27]

• 10-31
• 8-Bit Christmas (2021)
• Affairs of State
• An Aftermath
• Apex – by Aja Gabel and MJ Wesner
• Apex – by Stephen Vitale
• Assisted Living
• Atlanta Onfire
• Barron: A Tale of Love, Loss, & Legacy
• Betty Ford – adapted to television
• Black Mitzvah
• Blue Slide Park
• Breathe
• The Broker
• Can You Tell Me How?
• Cicada
• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
• Dollhouse
• Doll Wars
• Don't Go in the Water
• Don't Worry Darling (2022)
• Field of View
• First Ascent – adapted to television
• First Harvest
• Girlfriend on Mars
• Grandma Wants to Die
• Helldiver
• High On Christmas
• The House is Not for Sale
• I Heart Murder
• Klein
• Knock at the Cabin (2023) – then titled The Cabin at the End of the World
• The Laborer
• A Magical Place Called Glendale
• The Man in the Woods
• Meet Cute
• The Menu (2022)
• The Mother (2022)
• Move On
• My Boyfriend's Wedding
• No Good Deed
• Nomads
• The Perdition in Liege
• Pod
• The Process
• Refuge
• The Repossession
• Resurrection (2022)
• Ripple
• Rumours
• Say Something Nice
• The Searchers
• The Showrunner
• Sister
• Shut In (2022)
• Stampede
• Super Dad
• The Swells
• T
• They Cloned Tyrone (2022)
• This Is Going To Hurt
• Til Death
• The Traveler
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
• Voicemails for Isabelle
• Wayward

2020 Black List

(6/80 screenplays have been put into production)^[28]

• 1MDB
• Annalise & Song
• Anything's Possible (2022) – then titled What If?
• Bella
• A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey
• Bikram
• Birdies
• The Black Belt
• Blood Ties
• Borderline
• The Boy Who Died
• Bring Me Back
• Bubble & Squeak
• Chang Can Dunk (2023)
• Cosmic Sunday
• Crush on You
• The Culling
• Dust
• Earworm
• Emancipation (2022)
• Emergency (2022)
• Enemies Within
• Excelsior
• Fight or Flight
• Fish in a Tree
• Flight Risk
• Forever Hold Your Peace
• Frenemy
• Gabi Seems Different
• Generation Leap
• Get Lite
• Good Chance
• The Gorge
• Gusher
• Handsome Stranger
• Headhunter
• Here Come the Bandits
• High Society
• Horsegirl
• I.S.S. (TBA)
• If You Were the Last (TBA)
• Lurker
• Magazine Dreams (TBA)
• The Man in the Yard
• Margot
• May December (TBA)
• Mouse
• Murder in the White House
• My Dear You
• Nanny (2022)
• Neither Confirm Nor Deny
• The Neutral Corner
• Occupied
• The Peak
• Plush
• Possum Song
• Reality
• Reptile Dysfunction
• Rewired
• Ripper
• Ruby
• St. Simmons
• Saturday Night Ghost Club
• The Sauce
• Sharper (TBA)
• A Single Point of Failure
• State Lines
• Story
• Suncoast
• Tin Roof Rusted
• Towers
• Trespasser
• Two Faced
• The U.S.P.S.
• Uncle Wick
• Viceland
• Video Nasty
• War Face
• The Women of Route 40
• Yom Kippur

2021 Black List

(1/73 screenplays have been put into production)^[11]

• Abbi and the Eighth Wonder
• Air Jordan
• Apex – by Jeremy Robbins
• Ballast
• Barron's Cove
• Believe Me
• Bella
• Blackpill
• Candlewood
• Carriage Hill
• Cauliflower
• Challengers
• Chicago For One
• Cruel Summer
• The College Dropout
• The Dark
• Dennis Rodman's 48 Hours in Vegas
• The Devil Herself
• Divorce Party
• False Truth
• The Family Plan
• Fiendish
• The Fire Outside
• Follow
• Four Assassins (and a Funeral)
• From Little Acorns Grow
• Go Dark
• Grizz
• Hard To Get
• Hello Universe
• Homecoming
• Hot Girl Summer
• Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel
• A Hufflepuff Love Story
• An Ideal Woman
• Idol
• Indigo
• In The End
• It Was You
• Jellyfish Days
• Killer Instinct
• Killers and Diplomats
• Lady Krylon
• Lift
• Loud
• The Masked Singer
• Max and Tony's Epic One-Night Stand
• Mercury
• Michael Bay: The Epic Biopic
• Mimi
• Mr. Benihana
• A Nice Indian Boy
• Operation Milk & Cookies
• Rabbit Season
• Sandpiper
• See How They Run
• Shania!
• Skeleton Tree
• Sleep Solution
• St. Mary's Catholic School presents The Vagina Monologues
• Symphony of Survival
• Thicker Than Ice
• The Villain
• Ultra
• The Unbound
• Wait List
• The Way You Remember Me
• Ways to Hide in Winter
• Weird
• Wheels Come Off
• Whittier
• Worst. Dinner. Ever
• Yasuke

2022 Black List

• 42.6 Years
• A Guy Goes to Therapy
• The Americano
• An Oakland Holiday
• Beachwood
• Baby Boom
• The Boy Houdini
• Break Point
• Better Luck Next Time
• Below
• Black Dogs
• Black Kite
• Beachwood
• Colors of Authority
• Clementine
• Cheat Day
• Caravan
• Chatter
• Craigshaven
• Court 17
• Dying for You
• Dumb Blonde
• The Demolition Expert
• Eternity
• Fog of War
• Gather the Ashes
• GOAT
• Going for Two
• The House in the Crooked Forest
• The Homestead
• Himbo
• It's a Wonderful Story
• I Love You Now and Forever
• It's Britney, Bitch
• Jambusters
• JERRY!
• Jingle Bell Heist
• Let's Go Again
• Life of the Party
• Madden
• The Midnight Pool
• Match Cut
• Mega Action Cut
• Marriage Bracket
• Oh The Humanity
• Pikesville Sweep
• Popular
• Pop
• The Pack
• Pure
• Pizza Girl
• Pumping Black
• Resurfaced
• Ripple
• Ravenswood
• Semper Maternus
• Subversion
• The Sisters
• The Seeker
• Sang Froid
• There You Are
• They Came from a Broken World
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses
• Total Landscaping
• Trap
• Undo
• Viva Mexico
• Vitus
• Weary Ride the Belmonts
• Wildfire
• What We Become
• Wild
• White Mountains
• You're My Best Friend

Notes

1. Initially greenlit as a narrative feature, it was shifted during development into a documentary.
2. Written by Matthew Wilder, this screenplay never went into production. The 2013 film Lovelace is based on a screenplay written by Andy Bellin and is not connected to Wilder's script.
3. Bomback was eventually replaced by another writer for the film adaptation, which never came to fruition. A separate television adaptation, The Umbrella Academy (2019), was later developed for Netflix, with the pilot episode written by Jeremy Slater.

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External links

• Official website