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The Black List (survey)

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The Black List
Created2004; 20 years ago (2004)
Locationblcklst.com/lists/
Author(s)Franklin Leonard
PurposeRanking of top unproduced screenplays

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]

Of the more than 1,000 screenplays The Black List has included since 2005, at least 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]

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Canada and the United States share the longest, straightest, possibly boringest border in the world. But, look closer, and there's plenty of bizarreness to be found. While these sister nations get along fairly well, they both want to make it really clear whose side of the continent is whose. And they've done this by carving a 20-foot wide space along the border. All five and a half thousand miles of it. With the exception of the rare New England town that predates national borders or the odd airport that needed extending, this space is the no-touching-zone between the countries and they're super serious about keeping it clear. It matters not if the no-touching-zone runs through hundreds of miles of virtually uninhabited Alaskan / Yukon wilderness. Those border trees, will not stand. Which might make you think this must be the longest, straightest deforested place in the world, but it isn't. Deforested: yes, but straight? Not at all. Sure it looks straight and on a map, and the treaties establishing the line *say* it's straight... but in the real world the official border is 900 lines that zig-zags from the horizontal by as much as several hundred feet. How did this happen? Well, imagine you're back in North America in the 1800s -- The 49th parallel (one of those horizontal lines you see on a globe) has just been set as the national boundary and it's your job to make it real. You're handed a compass and a ball of string and told to carefully mark off the next 2/3rds of a continent. Don't mind that uncharted wilderness in the way: just keep the line straight. Yeah. Good luck. With that. The men who surveyed the land did the best they could and built over 900 monuments. They're in about as straight as you could expect a pre-GPS civilization to make, but it's not the kind of spherical / planar intersection that would bring a mathematician joy. Nonetheless these monuments define the border and the no-touching-zone plays connect-the-dots with them. Oh, and while there are about 900 markers along this section of the border, there are about 8,000 in total that define the shape of the nations. Despite this massive project Canada and the United States still have disputed territory. There is a series of islands in the Atlantic that the United States claims are part of Maine and Canada claims are part of New Brunswick. Canada, assuming the islands are hers built a lighthouse on one of them, and the United States, assuming the islands are hers pretends the lighthouse doesn't exist. It's not a huge problem as the argument is mostly over tourists who want to see puffins and fishermen who want to catch lobsters, but let's hope the disagreement gets resolved before someone finds oil under that lighthouse. Even the non-disputed territory has a few notably weird spots: such as this tick of the border upward into Canada. Zoom in and it gets stranger as the border isn't over solid land but runs through a lake to cut off a bit of Canada before diving back down to the US. This spot is home to about 100 Americans and is a perfect example of how border irregularities are born: Back in 1783 when the victorious Americans were negotiating with the British who controlled what would one day be Canada, they needed a map, and this map was the best available at the time. While the East Coast looks pretty good, the wester it goes the sparser it gets. Under negotiation was the edge of what would one day be Minnesota and Manitoba. But unfortunately, that area was hidden underneath an inset on the map, so the Americans and British were bordering blind. Seriously. They guessed that the border should start from the northwestern part of this lake and go in a horizontal line until it crossed the Mississippi... somewhere. But somewhere, turned out to be nowhere as the mighty Mississippi stops short of that line, which left the border vague until 35 years later when a second round of negotiations established the aforementioned 49th parallel. But there was still a problem as the lake mentioned earlier was both higher, and less circular than first though, putting its northwesterly point here so the existing border had to jump up to meet it and then drop straight down to the 49th, awkwardly cutting off a bit of Canada, before heading west across the remainder of the continent. Turns out you just can't draw a straight(-ish) line for hundreds of miles without causing a few more problems. One of which was luckily spotted in advance: Vancouver Island, which the 49th would have sliced through, but both sides agreed that would be dumb so the border swoops around the island. However, next door to Vancouver Island is Point Roberts which went unnoticed as so today the border blithey cuts across. It's a nice little town, home to over 1,000 Americans, but has only a primary school so its older kids have to cross international borders four times a day to go to school in their own state. In a pleasing symetry, the East cost has the exact opposite situation with a Canadian Island whose only land route is a bridge to the United States. And these two aren't the only places where each country contains a bit of the other: there are several more, easily spotted in sattelite photos by the no-touching zone. Regardless of if the land in question is just an uninhabited strip, in the middle of a lake, in the middle of nowhere, the border between these sister nations must remain clearly marked.

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.[13] 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 reference to the writers who were barred during the McCarthy era as part of the Hollywood blacklist.[14]

The screenplays to top The Black List, from 2005 to 2023 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; Pure; and Bad Boy.

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.[15]

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 produced)

2006 Black List

(40/87 screenplays produced)

2007 Black List

2008 Black List

(39/105 screenplays produced)[18]

2009 Black List

(41/97 screenplays produced)[19]

2010 Black List

(44/76 screenplays produced)[20]

2011 Black List

(28/71 screenplays produced)[8][21]

2012 Black List

2013 Black List

(17/72 screenplays produced)[22]

2014 Black List

(17/70 screenplays produced)[23]

2015 Black List

(20/81 screenplays produced)[24]

2016 Black List

(20/73 screenplays produced)[25]

2017 Black List

(14/76 films have been put into production; 14 completed, 1 in production[26])

2018 Black List

(10/73 screenplays have been put into production; 8 completed, 2 in production)[27]

2019 Black List

(11/66 screenplays have been put into production; 8 completed, 1 in production)[28]

2020 Black List

(15/80 screenplays have been put into production; 10 completed, 5 in production)[29]

2021 Black List

(6/73 screenplays have been put into production; 5 completed, 1 in production)[11]

2022 Black List

(0/74 screenplays have been put into production)[30]

2023 Black List

(0/76 screenplays have been put into production)[31]

Notes

  1. ^ Initially greenlit as a narrative feature, it was shifted during development into a documentary.
  2. ^ Bomback was eventually replaced by another writer for the film adaptation, which never came to fruition. A separate television adaptation, The Umbrella Academy (2019-present), was later developed for Netflix, with the pilot episode written by Jeremy Slater.
  3. ^ Another screenplay on that year's list, written by Alexis C. Jolly, also went by the title A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood; however, while both screenplays involve Fred Rogers, Jolly's screenplay covers Rogers' early career and is otherwise unrelated to the script by Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue.

References

  1. ^ a b Sperling, Nicole (December 10, 2008). "The Black List: How Hollywood's Buzziest Scripts Get Their Juice". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Sperling, Nicole (September 19, 2012). "Black List founder Franklin Leonard out at Overbrook Entertainment". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Edgars, Geoff (February 23, 2012). "Hollywood's talent pool". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
  4. ^ Dodes, Rachel (December 21, 2012). "For Budding Screenwriters, a Way Past the Studio Gates". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  5. ^ Sperling, Nicole (December 13, 2011). "A 'Black List' that's a career boost". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  6. ^ Paulson, Michael (January 25, 2022). "The Black List, Founded in Hollywood, Expands Into Theater". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  7. ^ Finke, Nikki (December 13, 2010). "The Black List 2010: Screenplay Roster". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  8. ^ a b Child, Ben (December 13, 2011). "Hollywood's 'Black List' of best unproduced scripts of 2011 revealed". TheGuardian.com. Archived from the original on September 25, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  9. ^ a b Welk, Brian (December 13, 2021). "Black List 2021: Films About Kanye West, Martin Shkreli, Donald Trump Among Favorite Unproduced Scripts". TheWrap. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  10. ^ Kilday, Gregg (December 11, 2017). "2017 Black List of the Best Unproduced Screenplays Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  11. ^ a b c Hipes, Patrick (December 13, 2021). "The Black List 2021: Daniel Jackson's 'Cauliflower' Tops Heap Of Year's Most-Liked Unproduced Screenplays". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 14, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  12. ^ Haglund, David (December 13, 2011). "The Mostly Dull-Sounding Screenplays on This Year's 'Black List'". Slate. Archived from the original on December 11, 2018. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  13. ^ How an underground script list changed movies (Online video). Vox. September 14, 2017. Archived from the original on October 14, 2021. Retrieved October 13, 2021 – via YouTube.
  14. ^ Rottenberg, Josh (December 15, 2014). "Franklin Leonard's Black List can help green-light screenplays". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  15. ^ Kilday, Gregg (January 27, 2019). "Sundance: GLAAD and The Black List Join Forces to Promote LGBTQ Screenplays". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 11, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  16. ^ "Oscar Winners 2015: Complete List". Variety. February 22, 2015. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  17. ^ Ouellette, Jennifer (September 4, 2019). "Carnival Row Brings a Richly Textured Fantasy World to Life". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2021 – via Wired.com.
  18. ^ Finke, Nikke (December 10, 2008). "The Black List 2008: Top Screenplays". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  19. ^ Finke, Nikke (December 11, 2009). "The Black List 2009: Full Roster". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  20. ^ Sneider, Jeff (December 13, 2010). "2010 Black List: 5 Scripts With the Best Chance of Getting Made". TheWrap. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  21. ^ Han, Angie (December 12, 2011). "The 2011 Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays". Slashfilm. Archived from the original on October 15, 2021. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  22. ^ "Black List 2013: Full Screenplay List". Deadline Hollywood. December 16, 2013. Archived from the original on May 16, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
  23. ^ Ford, Rebecca (December 15, 2014). "The 2014 Black List Announced". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  24. ^ Coggan, Devan (December 14, 2015). "The Black List announces 2015 script selections". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 1, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  25. ^ McNary, Dave (December 12, 2016). "Madonna Biopic 'Blond Ambition' Tops 2016 Black List". Variety. Archived from the original on December 13, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  26. ^ Hipes, Patrick (December 11, 2017). "The Black List 2017 Screenplays: Post-WWII Tale 'Ruin' Is No. 1 – Full Rankings". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  27. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 17, 2018). "The Black List 2018 Ranked: Disgruntled Snapchat Employee Story 'Frat Boy Genius' Leads; Scripts About Matt Drudge & Young Samuel L. Jackson Round Out Survey". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  28. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony; Ramos, Dino-Ray (December 16, 2019). "The Black List 2019 Screenplays Unveiled & Ranked: Ken Kobayashi's Frozen-Time Romance 'Move On' Tops List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 27, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  29. ^ Lindahl, Chris (December 14, 2020). "The 2020 Black List Presents the Year's Best Unproduced Scripts". IndieWire. Archived from the original on December 16, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  30. ^ Guy, Zoe (December 12, 2022). "The 2022 Black List Has a Britney Biopic, Four Seasons Total Landscaping Drama". Vulture. Vox Media. Archived from the original on December 12, 2022.
  31. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 11, 2023). "The Black List 2023: Travis Braun's Bad Boy Leads List of Year's Most-Liked Hollywood Screenplays". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation.

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