{"id":17733,"date":"2011-12-12T20:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:54:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:54:28","slug":"the-imitation-game-heads-this-years-black-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/12\/the-imitation-game-heads-this-years-black-list\/","title":{"rendered":"THE IMITATION GAME Heads This Year’s BLACK LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The true story of the World War Two cryptologist who broke the Nazi’s presumably “unbreakable” Enigma Code machines tops this year’s Black List of the best unproduced screenplay currently circulating in Hollywood. British novelist Graham Moore’s The Imitation Game<\/strong>, about how mathematician Alan Turing cracked the Nazi’s wartime communications while simultaneously laying the groundwork for modern computers earned an incredible 133 mentions. The previous highest vote earner was The Beaver<\/strong> which pulled 67 votes in 2007. While I haven’t read all of the scripts named to this year’s list, I have read The Imitation Game<\/strong> and its win here is well deserved.<\/p>\n

As per their own description-<\/p>\n

The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year.<\/p>\n

This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the The Black List.<\/p>\n

All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein. The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2011 affiliations.<\/p>\n

It has been said many times, but it\u2019s worth repeating:<\/p>\n

The Black List is not a \u201cbest of \u201c list. It is, at best, a \u201cmost liked\u201d list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Imitation Game<\/strong> sold in October<\/a> to Warner brothers as a possible project for Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/p>\n

Perusing the complete list, there are few trends that do stand out. There seem to be a number of show business-centric stories (Chewie<\/strong>, Saving Mr Banks<\/strong>, Home For Christmas- Bob Hope In Kore<\/strong>a) and there seems to be a few zombie scripts, a holdover from one of last year’s more popular trends. Interestingly, there are two different “Pinocchio” projects, one of which is a prequel! You can download this year’s Black List release here<\/a>, or just read all the titles listed below in order of votes received.<\/p>\n

133
\nTHE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n

84
\nWHEN THE STREET LIGHTS GO ON by Chris Hutton, Eddie O\u2019Keefe
\nIn the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher.<\/p>\n

59
\nCHEWIE by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux
\nA satirical behind the scenes look at the making of Star Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca.<\/p>\n

53
\nTHE OUTSIDER by Andrew Baldwin
\nIn post World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza.<\/p>\n

43
\nFATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO KISSES by Matthew Aldrich
\nA man goes on a three state crime spree with an accomplice, his eleven year old daughter.<\/p>\n

33
\nIN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER by Mike Jones
\nAn 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.<\/p>\n

30
\nMAGGIE by John Scott 3
\nAs a \u201cwalking dead\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

30
\nTHE CURRENT WAR by Michael Mitnick
\nBased 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.<\/p>\n

28
\nTHE END by Aron Eli Coleite
\nFour people \u2013 a veteran broadcaster in London, a sixteen year old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, and a devoted family man in Shanghai \u2013 each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours.<\/p>\n

27
\nBEYOND THE PALE by Chad Feehan
\nTeenage siblings suspect they\u2019ve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister than either imagined.<\/p>\n

27
\nEZEKIEL MOSS by Keith Bunin
\nA 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.<\/p>\n

24
\nGRACE OF MONACO by Arash Amel
\nGrace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting career to focus on being a full time princess, uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco\u2019s Prince Rainier III are at odds over the principality\u2019s standing as a tax haven.<\/p>\n

24
\nHE\u2019S FUCKIN\u2019 PERFECT by Lauryn Kahn
\nA social media savvy girl who is pessimistic about love finds the perfect guy and decides to use her internet research skills to turn herself into his perfect match.<\/p>\n

23
\nBETHLEHEM by Larry Brenner
\nA group of people struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies don\u2019t eat vampire.<\/p>\n

20
\nTHE THREE MISFORTUNES OF GEPPETTO: by Michael Vukadinovich
\nA prequel to the story of Pinocchio in which Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war, and ad\u00acventure, all to be with Julia Moon, his true love.<\/p>\n

20
\nPOWELL by Ed Whitworth
\nBased on the true story of Colin Powell questioning the Bush administration leading up to his United Nations presentation where he made the case for going to war with Iraq.<\/p>\n

19
\nTHE KNOLL: by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers
\nA rookie cop and his potential flame witness JFK gunned down from the grassy knoll on November 22, 1963. Within hours, they\u2019re on the run from the murderers who desperately need them silenced.<\/p>\n

17
\nHOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY: by Ed Solomon
\nA child prodigy tries to take control of his life away from his demanding parents.<\/p>\n

17
\nDESPERATE HOURS by E Nicholas Mariani
\nA small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher\u2019s doorstep covered in blood.<\/p>\n

17
\nA MANY SPLINTERED THING by Chris Shafer, Paul Vicknair
\nWhen a charming heartbreaker finally meets a girl he can\u2019t have, he discovers the true meaning of love by living out other people\u2019s love stories and writing his own.<\/p>\n

17
\nFLARSKY by Daniel Sterling
\nA political journalist courts his old babysitter, who is now the United States secretary of state.<\/p>\n

17
\nBLOOD MOUNTAIN by Jonathan Stokes
\nAfter his team is ambushed and killed in Pakistan, a young army ranger must escort the world\u2019s most wanted terrorist over dangerous terrain in order to bring him to justice. While being hunted by both of their enemies, they must find a way to work together in order to survive.<\/p>\n

17
\nBASTARDS by Justin Malen
\nTwo brothers, raised to believe their biological father died, find out their mother slept with many powerful and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the road to find their real father.<\/p>\n

17
\nCRAZY FOR THE STORM by Will Fetters
\nThe true story of Norman Ollestad\u2019s relationship with his father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing at the age of three. But it was that experience that allowed an 11-year old Norman to survive a plane crash amidst a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountains.<\/p>\n

16
\nTHE SLACKFI PROJECT by Howard Overman
\nA hapless and broken hearted barista is visited by two bad-ass soldiers from the future who tell him mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them.<\/p>\n

14
\nTHE MUSEUM OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS by Natalie Krinsky
\nLucy, a twenty-eight year old junior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, is sleeping with her boss. When he dumps her she begins a collection of \u201cbreak up items\u201d and starts a blog which goes viral.<\/p>\n

14
\nST VINCENT DE VAN NUYS by Ted Melfi
\nWhen a twelve year old boy in need of a babysitter moves in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life mainly consists of gambling, hookers, and drinking, the elder becomes an unlikely mentor to the boy.<\/p>\n

14
\nDJANGO UNCHAINED by Quentin Tarantino
\nA freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the two men set out to find Django\u2019s enslaved wife.<\/p>\n

13
\nTHE ACCOUNTANT by Bill Dubuque
\nThe Treasury Department pursues a brilliant, autistic accountant who doubles as an assassin and \u201cproblem-solves\u201d with precision in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

13
\nSAVING MR. BANKS by Kelly Marcel
\nThe story of how Walt Disney got the rights for Mary Poppins.<\/p>\n

12
\nBRIDGES ON THE FORT POINT CHANNEL by Chuck Maclean
\nAn Irish family in the 1970s, dealing with the loss of their father and the busing of black kids into white neighbor-hoods, decides to blow up all the bridges in Boston.<\/p>\n

12
\nTHE BIG STONE GRID by Craig Zahler
\nA cop is pulled into an underworld organization that brutally murders people to extort money out of others.<\/p>\n

12
\nCITIES OF REFUGE by Brandon Willer
\nA former FBI psychologist is called in to investigate when a young girl goes missing after the apparent murder of her father and brother by two strangers in a small Oklahoma town.<\/p>\n

12
\nGOOD KIDS by Chris McCoy
\nFour overachieving high school students in Cape Cod reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation.<\/p>\n

11
\nLEAVING PETE by Ali Waller, Morgan Murphy
\nA recently divorced author is stunned when his ex writes a popular book about their breakup, and he has to keep that fact secret from his new girlfriend, who works for the book\u2019s publisher.<\/p>\n

11
\nHIDDEN by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
\nAn elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak.<\/p>\n

11
\nDIRTY GRANDPA by John Phillips
\nA young groom engaged to a demanding woman is forced to spend the week before his wedding with his half-blind, half-crazy, and wholly horny grandfather. Through this wild journey, his grandfather shows him how to take life by the balls and lead with his heart.<\/p>\n

11
\nGRIM NIGHT by Allen Bey, Brandon Bestenheider
\nA family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year.<\/p>\n

10
\nWATCH ROGER DO HIS THING by Michael Starrbury
\nA retired hitman gets roped back into his old trade in order to save his friend\u2019s life and quickly finds himself caught in a struggle trying to finish the job, and get his family out of Chicago alive at the same time.<\/p>\n

10
\nTHE FLAMINGO THIEF by Mike Lesieur
\nGrief stricken over his wife leaving him, a man finds solace in an odd activity\u2026 swiping figurines of flamingos.<\/p>\n

10
\nTWO NIGHT STAND by Mark Hammer
\nAfter an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They\u2019re now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.<\/p>\n

10
\nSEX TAPE by Kate Angelo
\nWhen a married couple make a sex tape to spice up their relationship, it disappears, and they are frantic to get it back.<\/p>\n

10
\nTHE GUN EATERS by Alex Paraskevas, Jordan Goldberg
\nFour hardened New York detectives race to apprehend a relentless spree-killer who\u2019s executing victims from Queens to Southampton in the span of a single day.<\/p>\n

10
\nLITTLE WHITE CORVETTE by Michael Diliberti
\nA down and out brother and sister go to Miami to sell a duffel bag of cocaine that they found in the trunk of a corvette left them by their dead father.<\/p>\n

9
\nJANE GOT A GUN by Brian Duffield
\nAfter her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn\u2019t seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband\u2019s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.<\/p>\n

9
\nTHE LAST WITNESS by Stefan Jaworski
\nAn FBI Agent interrogates an amnesiac, sole survivor of a Boston bombing in order to prevent future terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

9
\nMURDERS & ACQUISITIONS by Jonathan Stokes
\nThe world of high-stakes finance collides with that of high-priced hitmen when an ousted CEO decides to hire an assassin to kill the corporate raider who stole his company.<\/p>\n

9
\nFLASHBACK by Will Honley
\nA former NASA pilot with amnesia \u2014 also the first person to travel the speed of light \u2014 realizes he has the ability to travel back in time and along the way rediscovers his love for his wife.<\/p>\n

9
\nTHE LAST DROP by Brandon Murphy, Phil Murphy
\nA fully functioning alcoholic meets the girl of his dreams and soon discovers that there\u2019s a lot more at stake than love if he doesn\u2019t clean up his act.<\/p>\n

9
\nFRIEND OF BILL by Harper Dill
\nAfter a humiliating episode in New York, a young woman returns to her hometown and tries to deal with her alcoholism.<\/p>\n

8
\nDEAD OF WINTER by Sarah Conradt
\nA teenage girl heads to a remote cabin in the moun\u00actains with her father and new stepmother \u2013 an experience the father hopes will bond the two ladies. But when a mysterious wounded Park Ranger shows up, family bonding will be the least of their concerns.<\/p>\n

8
\nON A CLEAR DAY by Ryan Engle
\nWhen a powerful and mysterious force invades an American city, a young father must traverse the battle-torn city in an effort to save his wounded wife and rescue their stranded children. In the process, our hero becomes the target of an enemy who will stop at nothing to kill him.<\/p>\n

8
\nHOME BY CHRISTMAS \u2013 BOB HOPE IN KOREA by Ben Schwartz
\nYoung Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of patriotism.<\/p>\n

8
\nTHE PRETTY ONE by Jenee LaMarque
\nWhen a woman\u2019s identical \u201cprettier\u201d twin sister dies, the woman assumes her sister\u2019s identity, moving into her apartment and the big city.<\/p>\n

8
\nBAD WORDS by Andrew Dodge
\nThe bastard child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult, only to find friendship in a young Indian contestant.<\/p>\n

8
\nJURASSIC PARK by Imran Zaidi
\nA high school couple and two of their friends ditch school to catch a special preview screening of JURASSIC PARK.<\/p>\n

8
\nGASLIGHT by Ian Fried
\nSecretly 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.<\/p>\n

7
\nSUBJECT ZERO by Dave Cohen
\nA Frankenstein-like tale of a scientist who develops a powerful new drug that brings his son back to life after he dies in a terrible car accident. Unfortunately, the desperate experiment of a loving father leads to the creation of a flesh-eating zombie epidemic with horrific consequences.<\/p>\n

7
\nTHE HITMAN\u2019S BODYGUARD by Tom O\u2019Connor
\nThe world\u2019s best bodyguard must protect his arch nemesis, the world\u2019s top assassin\u2026so he can testify against a brutal dictator and save his wife.<\/p>\n

7
\nCRISTO by Ian Shorr
\nA man is unlawfully sentenced to an infamous prison and escapes, then transforms himself into the mysterious Cristo and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him.<\/p>\n

7
\nUNTITLED HLAVIN HEIST by John Hlavin
\nAn American thief living in Paris is coerced into pulling off a complex heist in order to save his kidnapped wife.<\/p>\n

7
\nLINE OF SIGHT by F Scott Frazier
\nAfter a military coup takes out the executive branch of government, the country\u2019s survival depends on a Navy Seal sniper extraction team getting the Speaker of the House from Washington DC to New York.<\/p>\n

7
\nPINOCCHIO by Bryan Fuller
\nA wooden puppet, Pinocchio, dreams of becoming a real boy.<\/p>\n

7
\nTHE WEDDING by Andrew Goldberg
\nA group of couples deal with their respective issues as they attend a wedding.<\/p>\n

7
\n77 by David Matthews
\nTwo stories from 1974 are linked together \u2013 the unsolved murder of an LAPD officer and the nationally televised shootout in South Central Los Angeles between the Symbionese Liberation Army and the LAPD where 50,000 rounds of gunfire was exchanged. The events will be seen through the eyes of a pair of police partners, one black and one white.<\/p>\n

6
\nGUYS NIGHT by Christopher Baldi
\nSick of brunches, bosses, and light beer, four co-workers set out on the mother of all guys nights in an attempt to rediscover their manhood.<\/p>\n

6
\nSELF\/LESS by Alex Pastor, David Pastor
\nAn extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body\u2019s origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.<\/p>\n

6
\nHYPERDRIVE by Alex Ankeles, Morgan Jurgenson
\nWhen a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth.<\/p>\n

6
\nBEFORE I FALL by Maria Maggenti
\nWhen a popular teen girl is killed in a car crash, she relives the critical day seven times and makes changes in an attempt to affect the outcome; in the process, she herself changes as she tries to make up for previous heartless, self-absorbed behavior and gains a better understanding of herself and others. As she evolves and makes the connections necessary to save a bullied, depressed girl\u2019s life, she comes to accept her own fate.<\/p>\n

6
\nBREYTON AVE by J Daniel Shaffer
\nA group of teens living without adults and under their own social order in a small fenced-in neighborhood are forced to face what they fear is the inevitable physical danger beyond the fence.<\/p>\n

6
\nEL FUEGO CALIENTE by Ben Schwartz
\nA remake of SOAPDISH, a desperate telenovela star dreaming of Hollywood stardom has her life implode, making her real life crazier than the insane show she made famous.<\/p>\n

6
\nTHE DUFF by Josh Cagan
\nAdapted from Kody Keplinger\u2019s novel THE DUFF, the travails of a seventeen year old girl who believes she is the \u201cdesignated ugly fat friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

6
\nUNTITLED ARIZONA PROJECT by Luke Del Tredici
\nA satirically dark comedy about a homicidal foreclosure victim kidnapping a real estate agent and planning to kill her in the housing development where she finagled money from customers like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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