Black List (survey)

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The Black List is an annual survey that lists popular but not yet filmed scripts . The results have been published annually in December by the filmmaker Franklin Leonard since 2005.

history

Franklin Leonard, a former Universal Pictures employee , put together the first black list in 2005. He asked around 90 friends from the field of film production about their top ten scripts, which they had read this year, but which were not made into a film. From the resulting results, Leonard generated a list and sent it back to the participants in the survey as a thank you.

Since then, Leonard has surveyed filmmakers from various film studios and production companies every year and publishes the results online on the second Friday in December. Since the Black List came into being, a total of around 1,000 films have been listed, around a third of which were later filmed.

Films on the Black List (selection)

This list shows a selection of films that were on the black list and later filmed. The year the film was released is given in brackets.

2005

• A New Chance (2007)
• Juno (2007)
• Blood Diamond (2006)
• The best comes at last (2007)
• Prestige - The Masters of Magic (2006)

2006

• Dracula Untold (2014)
• Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger (2012)
• The Messenger (2009)
• Superbad (2007)
• Die for Beginners (2007, 2010)

2007

• Recount (2008)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• Hangover (2009)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Zombie Land (2009)

2008

• Easy to have (2010)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• The election campaigner (2015)
• Crazy About You (2010)

2009

• The King's Speech (2010)
• The Revenant (2015)
• The Social Network (2010)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Reference date (2010)

2010

• Argo (2012)
• American Hustle (2013)
• The Hunger Games (2012)
• Crazy, stupid, love. (2011)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

2011

• The Accountant (2016)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• Dirty Grandpa (2016)
• Killer's Bodyguard (2017)
• Playing It Cool (2014)
• The Imitation Game (2014)
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

2012

• Arrival (2016)
• Fate Is A Lousy Traitor (2014)
• The Judge - Right or Honor (2014)
• Draft Day (2014)
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
• Fathers and Daughters (2015)
• Hell or High Water (2016)
• Me and Earl and the Girl (2015)
• Jojo Rabbit (2019/20)
• John Wick (2014)
• Project Almanac (2015)
• Run All Night (2015)
• Sand Castle (2017)
• Shut In (2016)
• Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
• The Equalizer (2014)
• The Keeping Room (2014)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Viral (2016)
• Whiplash (2014)

2013

• American Sniper (2014)
• Cake (2014)
• Faults (2014)
• Hot Summer Nights (2017)
• Pan (2015)
• Patient Zero (2018)
• Seven Minutes After Midnight (2016)
• Shovel Buddies (2016)
• Spotlight (2015)
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
• The End of the Tour (2015)
• The Sea of ​​Trees (2015)

2014

• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Money Monster (2016)
• American Made (2017)
• The Founder (2016)
• Gifted - The Equation of a Life (2017)
• The Morgan Project (2016)
• My Friend Dahmer (2017)
• The Babysitter (2017)
• The Shallows (2016)
• The Wall (2017)

2015

• All the money in the world (2017)
• The Invention Of Truth (2016)
• Girls' Night Out (2017)
• Stronger (2017)
• Wish Upon (2017)
• City of Lies

2016

• I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
• I, Tonya (2017)
• That's Life - Life Itself (2018)
• The Publisher (2017)
• Roman J. Israel, Esq. - The Truth and Nothing But the Truth (2017)

2017

• The Lodge (2019)
• BIOS (2020)
• Breaking news in Yuba County
• Harry detention
• Infinite (2020)
• Kate

2018

• The High Note (2020)
• Little Fish (2020)
• Only half the story (2020)
• Promising Young Woman (2020)
• Queen & Slim (2019)

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Read Franklin Leonard's Black List can help green-light screenplays on latimes.com, accessed December 23, 2016.
2. ↑ A 'Black List' that's a career boost on latimes.com, accessed December 23, 2016.