This is the 13th edition of The Black List and since its inception by feature development executive Franklin Leonard the survey has yielded north of 400 Black List scripts. music scene to make her dreams of producing music a reality. The story follows a longtime assistant of a famous singer who must navigate the rocky waters of the L.A.
There are also some titles that are already being fast-tracked, i.e., Universal-Working Title’s Covers by Flora Greenson which already has $6.5M in California production tax credits and is still in development. In addition, there’s Jon Dorsey’s Kings of Cool which follows a nerdy teen who tries to a win a student election at an all-black high school in the segregated 1960s American South where he’s up against a young Samuel L. Topping this year’s list is a Social Network-like story, Elissa Karasik’s Frat Boy Genius, which follows a disgruntled employee of Snapchat who tells the story about the rise of her former Stanford classmate, “preeminent douchebag and current boss” Evan Spiegel.Īlso of note on this year’s list is Cody Brotter’s Drudge, a screenplay about reporter Matt Drudge as he broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal, nearly taking down a presidency, all from a desktop computer in his one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood. Who Reps The Black List 2018 Scripts: The Charts
