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post #1 of 9
12/12/11 at 12:25pm
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by Renn Brown: link

So what are the (supposedly) best script floating around Hollywood without a home?
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post #2 of 9
12/12/11 at 12:36pm

I like a comment I read on deadlinehollywood and sums up my feelings about this list:

 

 

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This isn’t a stab at the list, but more of the system in general: Studio Executives tend not to read specs by new or unproduced writers, so this list isn’t really made up of scripts written by complete unknowns. This is a list of scripts, mostly with producers already attached, that the Executives read because they know the writers.

 

As well, since most of these scripts have producers or production companies attached, wouldn’t it be in the Studio Executive’s best interest to vote for a script that belongs to them, but their company just hasn’t gone into production on yet? Remember, most producers or production companies have deals with studios. That means these scripts mostly all have a home, are going to be heading to production, but just haven’t YET. And that means the script is eligible to be on the Black List! And since it’s eligible, the Studio Executive may as well vote for it to give it some clout.

 

I’m not saying the list doesn’t boast wonderful scripts, but it’s not AT ALL objective and unbiased.

 

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post #3 of 9
12/12/11 at 12:37pm

 

 

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IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER by Mike Jones

An alternate telling of the historic APOLLO 11 mission to land on the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash landed there.

 

I'd watch the hell out of this.  Except I'd change the title to Forever Mankind, which are the final words of the speech William Safire wrote for the eventuality.

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post #4 of 9
12/12/11 at 12:42pm


 

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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post

 

 

 

I'd watch the hell out of this.  Except I'd change the title to Forever Mankind, which are the final words of the speech William Safire wrote for the eventuality.



 

How about M-O-O-N: it spells disaster!

 

Anyway.. Some of these sound OK, some sound dumb. If someone were to make THE END I'd be OK with it, since I think it's an interesting subject for a movie

 

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post #5 of 9
12/12/11 at 3:56pm

So many of these sound like warmed over crap, either too much like movies I've already seen ad infinitum (some of them blatantly so!) or too much like each other.  Basically, anything about rediscovering love or writing a blog or zombies should just be struck from the list.  Or it could just be how these loglines are written,  "they're gonna have to work together if they don't kill each other first..."  sigh.

 

Other than Django, I like these ones:

 

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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 pros¬ecuted for being a homosexual..

 

19
THE KNOLL: by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers
A rookie cop and his potential flame witness JFK gunned down from the grassy knoll on November 22, 1963. Within hours, they’re on the run from the murderers who desperately need them silenced.

 

8
HOME BY CHRISTMAS – BOB HOPE
IN KOREA
by Ben Schwartz
Young Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of patriotism.

 

8
GASLIGHT
by Ian Fried
Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck.

 

 

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post #6 of 9
12/12/11 at 5:31pm

Sure glad that Tarantino kid finally got his break.rolleyes.gif

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post #7 of 9
12/14/11 at 12:50am

Like the sound of the Electricity war flick.  I was just reading about this in Bill Bryson's latest book - it's a great story.

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post #8 of 9
12/14/11 at 12:57am

The Jurassic Park-meets-Fanboys script is so fucking pandering and bullshitty that I have a hard time reading anything else on the list. I read that logline and it's just RAGE.

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post #9 of 9
12/14/11 at 7:51am

Is it wrong that Bad Words is my favorite of the whole bunch?

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