Any year’s most-acclaimed movies usually started as glimmers in a writer’s eye between two and ten years earlier. And the Best Picture nominees Nebraskaand The Revenant took eight years to move from script to screen. How It Ends, an action film that arrived earlier this year, made the list way back in 2010. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex, which opens this week, was a Black List selection - in 2014. Critics often speak approvingly of movies that feel “of the moment,” but because of the vagaries and challenges of production, that moment can be maddeningly long in coming. They’re biopics of people who haven’t sold their life rights, or based-on-a-true-story accounts that would never clear any studio’s legal department but still serve as effective calling cards for their authors - showy work that can put them on the map, demonstrate their skill at dialogue, character, and/or structure, and improve their chances to be hired for a project a film company wants to make.īut the Black List serves another purpose: It’s a yearly glimpse of the state of the art by the art’s next great group of creators. That would be a great batting average in baseball and is an astonishing one for film development, especially since a significant number of Black List scripts are not really meant to be produced. The roster of Black List screenplays that have gone on to be produced and distributed runs to 300 - almost as impressive a number as the 700 that (so far) haven’t.
American Hustle, Argo, Arrival, Hell or High Water, The Imitation Game, Juno, Manchester By the Sea, Michael Clayton, Spotlight, and Whiplashwere all Black List scripts so is this week’s new arrival Bird Box. That’s not hype: Ten of the last 20 Best Screenplay Oscar winners first showed up on the Black List, which was founded and is overseen by Franklin Leonard, a development exec who has worked with, among others, Will Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio. Over the past decade, the list has become not only an index of hot properties but a kind of super-early Oscars preview - these are the movies we’ll see getting trophies sometime between 20. With that in mind, here are ten major films that actually began on The Black List.This week marks the release of the 14th edition of the Black List - the annual rundown of the most-liked unproduced screenplays to make the rounds in Hollywood as voted on by 300 studio and production-company executives. Meryl Streep remarked that “there is this list I gather that travels around through all the office in ’s The Black List.” Everyone filmmaker's goal is to find a powerful script that can be turned into an even more powerful movie, after all. The list has become a way for industry leaders to find screenplays that have not yet been picked up. RELATED: 10 Best Unproduced Screenplays Of 2020, According To The Black List The annual survey publishes a list of commendable scripts not produced, giving a platform for both established and unestablished writers to have their work adapted to the screen by interested producers. Leonard felt that he wasn’t finding many good scripts to recommend to his bosses, so he asked his peers in the industry to send him a list of their favorite scripts that went unproduced - thus giving way to The Black List. The Black List was founded in 2005 by Franklin Leonard, who had been working for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company.
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