È on-line la Black List 2012, la lista completa di quelle che sono reputate le migliori sceneggiature di Hollywood non ancora diventate film. L’iniziativa è nata da Franklin Leonard nel 2004, e viene stilata ogni anno grazie ai suggerimenti di centinaia di dirigenti del campo. Quest’anno 290 persone vi hanno collaborato, e ognuno ha contribuito a stendere una propria lista (fino a 10 nomi) dei loro script preferiti che in qualche modo hanno letto durante l’anno solare. Pare che ultimamente si sia perso l’effetto naïve iniziale, e sia diventata una vera a propria competizione tra le agenzie, che cercano di spingere il più possibile i propri clienti.
Ricordo che in passato hanno fatto parte della Black List pellicole come Juno (poi premio Oscar), 500 Days Of Summer, ma anche gli imminenti Stoker di Park Chan-wook, Saving Mr. Banks con Tom Hanks e molte altre.
Nella lista ci sono pellicole delle quali è già stato annunciato l’adattamento, come Transcendence di Jack Paglen, che sarà l’esordio alla regia di Wally Pfister, ma anche The Equalizer che avrà come protagonista Denzel Washington.
Ecco l’elenco completo appena pubblicato da Deadline con i voci ricevuti:
65
DRAFT DAY
Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman
On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred.
Agency: Gersh, CAA
Agents: Lee Keele (Joseph), Chris Till, Bill Zotti (Rothman)
Management: Kaplan/Perrone (Joseph & Rothman)
Managers: Josh Goldenberg, Aaron Kaplan
Production: Montecito Pictures
43
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS
Sean Armstrong
Based on true events. Inspector Geoff Harper conducts a forty year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian beach in January of 1966.
Agency: Verve
Agents: Aaron Hart, Adam Levine, Rob Herting, Bill Weinstein
Management: Principato-Young Management
Managers: Peter Dealbert, Susan Solomon
43
SEUSS
Eyal Podell, Jonathan Stewart
As a young man, Ted Geisel meets his future wife Helen, who encourages his fanciful drawings, and in the 1950s when Ted is struggling professionally, Helen helps inspire the children’s book that will become his first big hit, “The Cat in the Hat.”
Agency: Verve
Agents: Bryan Besser, Zach Carlisle, Rob Herting
Management: Industry Entertainment
Manager: Michael Botti, Jess Rosenthal
39
RODHAM
Young Il Kim
During the height of the Watergate scandal, rising star Hillary Rodham is the youngest lawyer chosen for the House Judiciary Committee to Impeach Nixon, but she soon finds herself forced to choose between a destined path to the White House and her unresolved feelings for Bill Clinton, her former boyfriend who now teaches law in Arkansas.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Barbara Dreyfus, Jenny Maryasis
Management: The Arlook Group
Managers: Richard Arlook, Jason Hong
Production: The Arlook Group, Temple Hill Entertainment
35
STORY OF YOUR LIFE
Eric Heisserer
Based on the short story by Ted Chiang. When alien crafts land around the world, a linguistics expert is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat. As she learns to communicate with the aliens, she begins experiencing vivid flashbacks that become the key to unlocking the greater mystery about the true purpose of their visit.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Barbara Dreyfus, Jon Huddle
Management: Art/Work
Manager: Julie Bloom
Financier: Film Nation
Production: Film Nation, Lava Bear, 21 Laps Entertainment
33
WUNDERKIND
Patrick Aison
A Mossad employed father and his CIA agent son team up to hunt an escaped Nazi.
Agency: ICM
Agents: Harley Copen, Bryan Diperstein, Emil Gladstone
Management: DMG Entertainment
Managers: Chris Cowles, Chris Fenton
Financier: Paramount
Production: Bad Robot, DMG Entertainment
31
EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL, AND VILE
Michael Werwie
Based on a true (and ultimately surprising) story, a promising young law student fights an oppressive legal system and growing public scrutiny when his routine traffic stop snowballs into shocking criminal charges, imprisonment, daring escapes, and ultimately acting as his own attorney in a nationally televised murder trial.
Agency: UTA
Agents: Peter Dodd, David Flynn, Jon Huddle, David Kramer
Management: Evolution Entetainment
Manager: Stephen Gates, Brad Kaplan
Production: Michael Costigan
29
GLIMMER
Carter Blanchard
When three friends go missing on a camping trip in a forest rumored to be haunted, the two left behind discover clues that lead them to a safe deposit box containing video tapes… showing exactly what happened to their friends.
Agency: Paradigm
Agents: David Boxerbaum
Management: Madhouse Entertainment
Managers: Ryan Cunningham, Adam Kolbrenner
Financier: Dreamworks
Production: Madhouse Entertainment
29
ME & EARL & THE DYING GIRL
Jesse Andrews
Based on Andrews’s eponymous novel, a quirky high school student who enjoys making films sparks a friendship with a classmate dying of leukemia.
Agency: WME
Agents: Anna Deroy, Sarah Self
Management: MXN
Managers: Michelle Knudsen, Mason Novick
Production: Indian Paintbrush
28
DEVILS AT PLAY
James Dilapo
In the Soviet Union in 1937, a worker of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs finds a list of traitors, which he thinks is going to be his way out.
Agency: Verve
Agents : Aaron Hart, Rob Herting, Adam Levine
Management: Kaplan/Perrone
Manager: Alex Lerner
26
SWEET VIRGINIA
Paul China, Benjamin China
A former rodeo star unknowingly starts a rapport with a young man who is responsible
for all of the violence that has suddenly gripped his small town.
Agency: WME
Agents: Roger Green, Sarah Self
Management: Fourth Floor Productions
Manager: Jeff Silver
25
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Brad Desch
A woman recalls her close relationship with her famous novelist father while struggling to overcome her fear of emotional involvement with her first real boyfriend.
Agency: ICM
Agents: Harley Copen, Bryan Diperstein, Laura Haas
Management: Management 360
Managers: Ali Itri, Jill McElroy
Production: Busted Shark
RODHAM by Young Il Kim
THE SURVIVALIST by Stephen Fingleton
MCCARTHY by Justin Kremer
CONVERSION by Marissa Jo Cerar
TIMES SQUARE by Taylor Materne, Jake Rubin
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM by Jason Micallef
SEUSS by Eyal Podell, Jonathan Stewart
JOJO RABBIT by Taika Waititi
THE DISCIPLE PROGRAM by Tyler Marceca
THE KILLING SPREE by Derek Elliott, Jack Donaldson
OUR NAME IS ADAM by T.S. Nowlin
DEVILS AT PLAY by James Dilapo
HEY, STELLA! by Tom Shephard
BLACK BOX by David Guggenheim
TITANS OF PARK ROW by Mitch Akselrad
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY by April Prosser
FLOWER by Alex McAulay
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Mark Hogan
CHERRIES by Brian Kehoe, Jim Kehoe
HIBERNATION by Will Frank, Geneva Robertson-Dworet
EL TIGRE by Aaron Buchsbaum, Teddy Riley
THE JUDGE by Bill Dubuque
GOODBYE, FELIX CHESTER by Max Taxe
WHO FRAMED TOMMY CALLAHAN? by Harry Kellerman
THE BROKEN by John Glosser
KING OF HEISTS by Will Staples
BLEEDING KANSAS by Russell Sommer, Dan Frey
THE LIGHTHOUSE by Eric Kirsten
EX BOYFRIEND OF THE BRIDE by Matt Hausfater
THE OUTSKIRTS by Dominique Ferarri, Suzanne Wrubel
PESTE by Barbara Marshall
THE PAPER MAN by Sean O’Keefe
FUCK MARRY KILL by Neel Shah, Alex Blagg
MAN OF TOMORROW by Jeremy Slater
MONSOON by Matt Ackley
MURDER CITY by Will Simmons
UNTITLED COPS SCRIPT by Blake McCormick
COME AND FIND ME by Zack Whedon
THE EQUALIZER by Richard Wenk
TRANSCENDENCE by Jack Paglen
GLIMMER by Carter Blanchard
WHIPLASH by Damien Chazelle
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS by Sean Armstrong
THE HOOVERVILLE DEAD by Brantley Aufill
STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA by Nikole Beckwith
FROM NEW YORK TO FLORIDA by Austin Reynolds
CLIVE by Natasha Pincus
COMANCHERIA by Taylor Sheridan
THE BALLAD OF PABLO ESCOBAR by Matt Aldrich
OUT OF STATE by Eric Pearson
WUNDERKIND by Patrick Aison
THE FINAL BROADCAST by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe
MIDNIGHT AT NOON by Nathaniel Halpern
AMERICATOWN by Ben Poole
GEORGE by Jeff Shakoor
SOMACELL by Ashleigh Powell
FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS by Brad Desch
Quali acclamate pellicole vedremo il prossimo anno sul grande schermo tratte da queste sceneggiature?
Fonte: deadline