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2007 Black List PDF
2007 Black List PDF
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THE BLACK LIST was compiled from the suggestions of over 150 film
executives and high-level assistants, each of whom contributed the
names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or
are somehow uniquely associated with, 2007 and will not be released
in theaters during this calendar year.
Like last year, scripts had to receive at least two mentions to be
included on THE BLACK LIST.
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 2007 affiliations.
It has been said, but its worth repeating: THE BLACK LIST is not a
best of list. It is, at best, a most liked list.
Enjoy.
44
43
38
35
29
27
25
24
21
17
AVAILABLE.
16
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
14
13
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
11
UNAVAILABLE. Sony.
THE HUMAN FACTOR by Anthony Peckham
Nelson Mandela unites the country of South Africa during the early
days of his presidency as the country hosts the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Overture.
10
9
UNAVAILABLE. Rogue.
LION MAN OF TUSCANY by Nathan Skulnik
The true story of Gino Bartali, the Tour de France-winning Italian
cyclist who, during World War II, helped save the lives of over 800
Jews by helping to smuggle them out of fascist Italy.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Dreamworks.
BLITZ by Nathan Parker
The London police track down a vicious killer known as The Blitz as he
rampages through the city killing cops as he goes.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Mandate.
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by Simon Beaufoy
An illiterate kid looks to become a contestant on the Hindi version of
Who Wants to be A Millionaire in order to re-establish contact with the
girl he loves, who is an ardent fan of the show.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Dreamworks.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET by Terence Winter
The story of Jordan Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who
served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s
securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall
Street and in the corporate banking world.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
UNAVAILABLE. Miramax.
None
Ken Kamins
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
THE WRESTLER by Robert Siegel
Randy The Ram Robinson, a 1980s-era pro wrestler, has become a
burnt-out shell of his former self. After he has a heart attack during
a small-time match, a doctor tells him he could die if he fights again.
In an effort to build a new life, Robinson takes a job at a deli, moves
in with an aging stripper and tries to build a relationship with her
son. The prospect of a rematch with his old nemesis, the Ayatollah,
proves too tempting to resist, even though it means risking his life.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Sony.
AVAILABLE
COLD CITY by David James Kelly
During the Charles Manson frenzy of 1969, an ex-cop must overcome his
demons when hes hired to help protect a young girl and sole witness to
Legion Gringo, a murderer who has been brutally slaughtering
prostitutes in LA.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Groundswell.
AVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
UNAVAILABLE. Groundswell.
BLACK BOX by Brad Holloway
Following the crash of an airliner, a special
the black box contained no answers and goes on
truth. Meanwhile the United States government
operatives family hostage to turn him into an
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Miramax.
AVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
UNAVAILABLE. Overture.
MAGGIE LYNN by Craig Brewer
A woman's life is turned upside down when she learns her husband has
had an affair. She goes on the road with her brother's country music
band and taps into her pain to become a burgeoning music star.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
THE ORNATE ANATOMY OF LIVING THINGS by Matt Spicer & Max Winkler
A New York bookstore clerk discovers a museum devoted to his life.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Waldenmedia.
THE REVENENT by Mark L Smith
In 1870, a black scout is mauled by a bear and then left for dead by
the white trappers he was leading. He survives and seeks revenge.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Sony.
UNTITLED CHEF PROJECT by Steve Knight
A Michelin-level chef tries to make a comeback from major personal
issues. He gathers his old friends together as his dream team and
ends up falling in love with the newest member of the group.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
THE WACKNESS by Jon Levine
New York, summer 1994, the greatest year in hip-hop. A troubled
teenage drug dealer trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled
psychiatrist intent on living his life to the fullest. The two form an
unlikely friendship, but things get complicated when the kid falls for
the doctor's daughter.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
WILD WILD EAST by Chase Palmer
In modern day Ukraine, the political landscape resembles the Wild West.
Gangsters run the government, and the government runs the gangs. And only
one man, an American known only as The Fixer, knows how to navigate the murky
and dangerous waters without getting himself, or his clients, killed.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE. Focus.
THE WIZARDS OF PERFIL by Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
Based on the short story by Kelly Link.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
ZELDA by Hanna Weg
The true story of Zelda Fitzgerald (and her famous husband Scott), the
Jazz Age icons who lived large, soared high and crashed very hard.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
36 by Richard Price
Two detectives try to solve a series of armored car robberies with a
promotion going to whoever catches the perpetrators.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
UNAVAILABLE. ThinkFilm.
AVAILABLE.
AVAILABLE.
BFF by Jenni Konner & Ali Rushfield
Two best friends in their late 20s, who have been inseparable best
friends since freshman year of college, break up and have to deal with
the repercussions of ending their intensely close friendship.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Disney.
BIG EYES by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski
Based on the true story of painter Margaret Keane and her husband,
Walter, who took credit for his wife's work while she toiled in
obscurity.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Dreamworks.
BURN AFTER READING by The Coen Brothers
CIA agent Osborne Cox decides to pen his memoirs and is fired from the
agency. The disc containing the memoirs inadvertently gets left in a ladies
locker room at a gym, where Linda and co-worker Chad, hatch a plan to sell
its contents to the highest bidder.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Focus.
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
DEEP THROAT by Peter Landesman
The true story of W. Mark Felt, the retired FBI man who identified
last year as anonymous Watergate source Deep Throat.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
DEMOLITION by Bryan Sipe
A man who just lost his wife forms a relationship with a woman under
bizarre and hilarious circumstances.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
None.
Ampersand Management - Marti Blumenthal, Joan Scott
AVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
EAGLE EYE by Hilary Seitz
A slacker and a single mother are framed as terrorists and forced to
become members of a cell with plans to carry out a political
assassination.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Universal
FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by Josh Marston
Based on Jonathan Lethems novel. A white kid living in a black
neighborhood of Brooklyn forms an unlikely friendship with the son of a
washed-up musician.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Groundswell.
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
A GOOD MOTHER by Rey Howard
The lives of two women converge in a dark and unexpected manner.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
IN by Bess Wohl
A young woman, just out of college and trying to write her first
novel, takes a tutoring job to help a wealthy and handsome student get
into Harvard. She finds herself seduced by him and his entire family
when they take her in as one of their own.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
JIMBO by William Finkelstein
The downfall of populist Ohio Congressman James Traficant, who was
expelled from Congress and jailed in 2002 for taking bribes, filing
false tax returns, and racketeering.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Nickelodeon.
LET IT FALL by John Ridley
An examination of the Los Angeles riots of 1992 after an all-white
jury acquitted four police officers charged with beating Rodney King.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
MAMMOTH by Lukas Moodysson
Tom, as successful New York businessman, leaves his wife and daughter
in the care of a Filipino nanny to go on a business trip to Thailand.
As he delves into a new cultural experience, Tom soon realizes he wants
to change his life, setting off a chain of dramatic events.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
None
Paul Schwartzman Office - Paul Schwartzman
UNAVAILABLE. Universal.
MAN UNDER by Ann Cherkis
Members of a drab, unhappy family in suburban New Jersey find their
lives dramatically altered when a photograph of them is showcased at
the Museum of Modern Art as the centerpiece of a retrospective exhibit
for a photographer who was murdered.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
UNAVAILABLE. Miramax.
AVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE. Dreamworks.
OCEAN BEACH by Frank Cassese & Joel Plotch
A young man's incestuous love for his sister drives him mad when she
begins a relationship with someone else.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
None
None
AVAILABLE.
OF EVERY WICKEDNESS by Brian McGreevey & Lee Shipman
Based on a true story: Three years before Jack the Ripper shocked
London and the world, a murderer terrorized the dusty streets of
Austin, TX, in what would become the first recorded serial killings in
American history.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
PANDORA by Karl Gajdusek
The residents of a small Texas town are shocked when 7 local residents
are killed in a bank robbery gone wrong. Although the culprits are
immediately captured, they are kidnapped from the local jail and held
for ransom - the town now has to buy back their killers - and this is
when things really start to go awry.
AGENT:
MANAGER:
AVAILABLE.
None
None
UNAVAILABLE. Paramount.
AVAILABLE.
UNAVAILABLE. Touchstone.
UNAVAILABLE. Dreamworks.
INDEX
44 MENTIONS
RECOUNT by Danny Strong
43 MENTIONS
FARRAGUT NORTH by Beau
Willimon
38 MENTIONS
PASSENGERS by Jon Spaihts
35 MENTIONS
INFILTRATOR by Josh Zetumer
29 MENTIONS
SELMA by Paul Webb
27 MENTIONS
CURVEBALL by Steve Knight
25 MENTIONS
I WANT TO F--- YOUR SISTER by Melissa Stack
24 MENTIONS
THE ROAD by Joe Penhall
21 MENTIONS
THE WAY BACK by Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
17 MENTIONS
THIS SIDE OF THE TRUTH by Matt Robinson
16 MENTIONS
DUBAI by Adam Cozad
PIERRE PIERRE
by Edwin Cannistraci & Frederick Seton
14 MENTIONS
THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN
by Matt Drake
13 MENTIONS
SOURCE CODE by Ben Ripley
11 MENTIONS
EDWIN A. SALT by Kurt Wimmer
THE HUMAN FACTOR by Anthony Peckham
UNION STATION by Doug Jung
10 MENTIONS
ADVENTURELAND by Greg Mottola
9 MENTIONS
KAMIKAZE LOVE by Chad Damiani & JP Levin
7 MENTIONS
BFF by Chad & Dara Creasey
THE BOOK OF ELI by Gary Whitta
LION MAN OF TUSCANY by Nathan Skulnik
NEVER LET ME GO by Alex Garland
UNTITLED BILL CARTER PROJECT by Jordan Roberts
6 MENTIONS
$40,000 MAN by John Daily & Jonathan Goldstein
THE ART OF MAKING MONEY by Frank Baldwin
BLITZ by Nathan Parker
MANAGEMENT by Stephen Belber
SHELTER by Karl Mueller
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by Simon Beaufoy
UNTITLED MICHAEL MANN/JOHN LOGAN PROJECT
by John Logan
WEDNESAY by Massy Tadjedin
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET by Terence Winter
5 MENTIONS
DREAMS OF THE ROMANS by John Hindman
GET BACK by Chris McCoy
JENNIFERS BODY by Diablo Cody
JONES by Carol Heikkinen
MAN ON THE TRAIN by Dan Taplitz
VALKYRIE by Chris MacQuarrie
WORLD WAR Z by J. Michael Straczynski
THE WRESTLER by Robert Siegel
ZOMBIELAND by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick
4 MENTIONS
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Craig Titley
BALTIMORE by Chris Terrio & Jesse Lichtenstein
COLD CITY by David James Kelly
DARKON by John Hodgman
GENIUS by John Logan
BROTHERS IN ARMS aka HILL 427 by Noah Lukeman
ORPHAN by David Leslie Johnson
SCORE by Jeremy Slater
UNTITLED CHARLES RANDOLPH PHARMACEUTICAL SCRIPT
by Charles Randolph
3 MENTIONS
ALL GOOD THINGS
by Marcus Hinchey, Marc Smerling & Andrew Jarecki
BLACK BOX by Brad Holloway
BLINDNESS by Don McKellar
BUTTERCUP by Alice ONeil
CLASH OF THE TITANS by Travis Beacham
DEAR JOHN by Jamie Linden
DIRTY GIRL by Abe Sylvia
DOUBT by John Patrick Shanley
ELI WEBB by Thompson Evans
HANGOVER by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore
HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE by Josh Radnor
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
by Peter Straughan
JEFF THE IMMORTAL by Chris Bishop
JOY by Jack Paglen
LAST CHANCE HARVEY by Stephen Hopkins
MAGGIE LYNN by Craig Brewer
THE ORNATE ANATOMY O FLIVING THINGS
by Matt Spicer and Max Winkler
RELATIVITY by Peter Craig
THE REVENENT by Mark L Smith
TEHRAN by Richard Regen
INDEX
3 MENTIONS (cont.)
TOKYO SUCKERPUNCH by Ed Solomon
UNTITLED CHEF PROJECT by Steve Knight
THE WACKNESS by Jon Levine
THE WEDDING PARTY by Francesca Marciano
WILD WILD EAST by Chase Palmer
WITH KIND REGARDS FROM KINDERGARTEN
by Adam K Kline
THE WIZARDS OF PERFIL by Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
WRECKING BALL by Susan Brightbill
ZELDA by Hanna Weg
2 MENTIONS
36 by Richard Price
THE 37TH DIMENSION by Griffin Creech & Tom Kuntz
ARCADIA DISINHERITED by Adam Hutchinson
ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE MAKING OF PSYCHO
by John McLaughlin
BACK EAST by Zach Whedon
BEAT KIP by Rob Kerkovich & Todd Waldman
BFF by Jenni Konner & Alli Rushfield
BROMANCE by Barry Schwartz & Raza Syed
BURN AFTER READING by The Coen Brothers
COXBLOCKER by Tim Dowling
DEEP THROAT by Peter Landesman
DEMOLITION by Bryan Sipe
THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
by Robbie Pickering
THE DUCHESS
by Jeffrey Hatcher & Anders Thomas Jensen
DUPLICITY by Tony Gilroy
EAGLE EYE by Hilary Seitz
ENRON by Sheldon Turner
FIASCO HEIGHTS by Kyle Ward
FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by Josh Marston
GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK JAPAN by JF Lawton
A GOOD MOTHER by Rey Howard
I ROCK IRAQ by Stephen Chin
IN by Bess Wohl
JIMBO by William Finkelstein
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA by The Mulroneys
THE LAND OF LOST THINGS by Dan Mazeau
LET IT FALL by John Ridley
MAMMOTH by Lukas Moodysson
MAN AND WIFE by Lorene Scafaria
MAN UNDER by Ann Cherkis
MATZOBALLERS by Adam Herschman
NO MANS LAND by Jeff Nachmanoff
OCEAN BEACH by Frank Cassese & Joel Plotch
OF EVERY WICKEDNESS
by Brian McGreevey & Lee Shipman
PANDORA by Karl Gajdusek
PICTURES OF YOU by Josh Friedlander
ROSCOE by Steve Zaillian
SEX AND SYLVIA PLATH by Jennifer OKieffe
SHOTGUN HARLEY by Jason Jones & Mike Beaver
SOMEBODY TO LOVE by Michael Cunningham
SPACE INVADER by Mike Lisbe & Nate Reger
STRANGE SKIES by Pat Healy
2 MENTIONS (cont.)
THE TOWN by Peter Craig
UNIQUE by Michael Cooney
WHIP IT by Shauna Cross
WILL by Demetri Martin
YEARBOOK by Bob Nelson
YES MAN by Nick Stoller
cont.