Every year, The Black List publishes a list of the most notable unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. (They take pains to note their picks should not be looked at as the “best” screenplays; instead, they describe them as the “most liked” scripts, based on a survey of various executives from throughout the world of movies.)

2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the first Black List, which was assembled by development executive Franklin Leonard. In the decades since, the Black List has become an annual event anticipated by the entire movie business. Literally hundreds of screenplays that have appeared on the Black List has been made into movies (and, to a lesser extent, TV shows).

Some of those films didn’t quite pan out — sometimes a script went unproduced because it was too challengin

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