Black List 2023: Tom Hanks Kidnapping, Rescue Dog Who Suspects Owner is Serial Killer Top Annual Script Ranking
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer At the close of a particularly fraught year for Hollywood screenwriters, Monday saw the release of the annual Black List – a ranking of the top unproduced scripts in show business.
Voted on by nearly 400 creative executives, this year’s favorite project that has yet to receive a greenlight is “Bad Boy” by Travis Braun, described simply as the tale of a rescue dog who suspects his loving new owner is a serial killer.
The list includes 76 titles and covers wide narrative ground. Kirill Baru and Eric Zimmerman’s “The Great Pretender” is the story of America’s sweetheart Tom Hanks getting kidnapped, and the doppelgänger who must step in to save him.
Hunter Toro’s “Boy Falls From Sky” tells of an anxious playwright whose world is turned upside down by lies and bone-crushing accidents as he mounts the Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” In Jordan Rosenbloom’s “Spoiler,” a movie exec gets trapped inside a script he passed on, and must escape before the credits roll.
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