I've got all 70 of the BlackList scripts and have begun reading them. There is lots of good stuff here. The number one script 'The Imitation Game,' is great. It has already been optioned for Leonardo DiCaprio and slated for 2014. Sam Sparro Self Titled Rar Files.
THE BLACK LIST GUIDES 1 TV SCRIPT STANDARDS While the nuts and bolts of formatting a pilot script for television are essentially the same as that of a feature film.
If you can get your hands on these, I highly recommend reading them, as it gives great insight into the current writing trends. You can see what agents consider the BEST. You can also gauge different agents tastes and possibly pitch those agents your similar project. The most fascinating thing is how many screenwriting rules are broken.
Writers are including emotions, camera angles and specific music in the scripts, which has long been a NO, No. Film executive Franklin Leonard has been compiling The Black List since 2005. He started it out of desperation. Then a development executive at Appian Way, Leonard had been drowning in a sea of bad screenplays. He turned to his counterparts in the industry for a life preserver, and his simple e-mail to 75 Hollywood execs asking for good script suggestions resulted in an avalanche of replies. He compiled those answers into a dossier he dubbed the Black List — part self-referential title (Leonard is African American) and part ironic nod to the 1940s and '50s Hollywood blacklist of suspected communists and communist sympathizers that on occasion derailed careers. A phenomenon was born.
Today, over 300 people participate in compiling the list; those invited to participate contribute an unranked list of up to 10 of their favorite scripts of the year. While the number of participants has ballooned, Leonard says the purpose of the list remains the same: to recognize solid screenplays. In the past, the list has been responsible for bringing Oscar-winning films such as Juno, Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech to the attention of studios. The 2011 list consists of 74 screenplays that film executives have voted their favorite scripts yet to make it into production. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on The Black List. The Black List is not a 'best of' list.
It is, at best, a 'most liked' list. 133 Votes THE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore The story of British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual.
AGENCY: CAA AGENT: JP Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: The Safran Company MANAGER: Tom Drumm FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Ido Ostrowsky, Nora Grossman #2. 84 Votes WHEN THE STREET LIGHTS GO ON by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher.
AGENCY: WME AGENT: Simon Faber, Sarah Self MANAGEMENT: Tariq Merhab Management MANAGER: Tariq Merhab PRODUCER: Imagine Entertainment #3. 59 Votes CHEWIE by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux A satirical behind the scenes look at the making of Star Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca.