Annual compilation of the most-liked screenplays that have yet to be made is out Monday. Since 2004, film executive Franklin Leonard has published the list according to a huge consent of executives in the highest tiers of filmmaking. The purpose was to champion screenplays by talented, but not automatically famous screenwriters. Well over 125 Black List screenplays were turned into movies and between them they have won 20 Oscars and roughly $10 billion worldwide.
This year's list consists of 97 scripts with 307 Hollywood insiders contributing to the ranking such as development executives at studios, producers and financiers.
Previous scripts that have made the list have been turned into movies include The Descendants, 50/50 and Margin Call. Already in production from last year's Black List are Snow White and the Huntsman, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Oz the Great and Powerful.
Below, check out the Top 10 from 2011. The topics are an eclectic mix of genre, drama and odd-ball comedy.
1. The Imitation Game by Graham Moore (133 votes)
The story of British World War II cryptographer Alan Turing who broke several German codes, but in later life was prosecuted for being homosexual, leading to his suicide.
Agent: Creative Artists Agency — J.P. Evans, Jacqueline Sacerio
Manager: The Safran Co. — Tom Drumm
Producers: Ido Ostrowsky, Nora Grossman producing for Warner Bros.
2. When the Street Lights Go by Chris Hutton, Eddie O'Keefe (84 votes)
In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a murder of a high school girl and a teacher.
Agency: WME — Simon Faber, Sarah Self
Manager: Tariq Merhab Management — Tariq Merhab
Producers: Imagine Entertainment
3. Chewie by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux (59 votes)
A satirical, behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Stars Wars” through the eyes of Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca.
Agency: WME — Mike Esola
Manager: Industry Entertainment — Jess Rosenthal
4. The Outsider by Andrew Baldwin (53 votes)
In post-World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Jay Baker, John Garvey
Manager: Anonymous Content — Bard Dorros, David Kanter
Producers: Linson Entertainment for Warner Bros.
5. Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses by Matthew Aldrich (43 votes)
A man goes on a three-state crime spree with an accomplice, his 11-year-old daughter.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil
Manager: Silent R Management: Jewerl Ross
Producers: Pearl Street Productions production for Warner Bros.
6. In the Event of a Moon Disaster by Mike Jones (33 votes)
An alternate telling of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash-landed there.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency: David Kopple, JP Evans
Manager: The Gotham Group: Lindsay Williams
Producer: FilmNation
7. Maggie by John Scott 3 (30 votes)
As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency: Billy Hawkins, Dan Rabinow
Manager: Trevor Kaufman
Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
7. The Current War by Michael Mitnick (30 votes)
Based on the true story of the race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical system of electricity and sell their respective inventions to the country and the world.
Agency: William Morris Endeavor — Simon Faber
Manager: Fourth Floor Productions — Jeff Silver
9. The End by Aron Eli Coleite (28 votes)
Four people — a veteran broadcaster in London, a 16-year old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a devoted family man in Shanghai — each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Matt Rosen
Producer: Warner Bros.
10. Beyond the Pale by Chad Feehan (27 votes)
Based on William Gay's novel “Twilight,” teenage siblings suspect they've been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio
Manager: Management 360 — Guymon Casady, Mary Lee
Producers: Feehan's The Fort producing for Vendome Pictures
10. Ezekiel Moss by Keith Bunin (27 votes)
A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young widow and her 11-year-old son.
Agency: Creative Artists Agency — Rowena Arguelles
Manager: Kaplan/Perrone — Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone
Producers: A Likely Story and Mandalay Pictures
