The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the 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 2011 affiliations. It has been said many times, but it’s worth repeating: The Black List is not a “best of “ list. It is, at best, a “most liked” list. Enjoy. BUILD YOUR FENCES WE DIGGIN’ TUNNELS SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 1 133 84 THE IMITATION GAME WHEN THE STREET LIGHTS GO ON by Graham Moore by Chris Hutton, Eddie O’Keefe The story of British WWII cryptographer Alan In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code and a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher. later poisoned himself after being criminally pros- ecuted for being a homosexual.. AGENCY MANAGER WME Tariq Merhab AGENCY MANAGER AGENT PRODUCER CAA Tom Drumm Simon Faber, Imagine AGENT FINANCIER Sarah Self Entertainment JP Evans, Warner Brothers MANAGEMENT Jacqueline Sacerio PRODUCER Tariq Merhab MANAGEMENT Ido Ostrowsky, Management The Safran Company Nora Grossman 59 53 CHEWIE THE OUTSIDER by Evan Susser, Van Robichaux by Andrew Baldwin A satirical behind the scenes look at the making of In post World War II Japan, an American former Star Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew who prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza. played Chewbacca. AGENCY MANAGER AGENCY MANAGER CAA Bard Dorros, WME Jess Rosenthal AGENT David Kanter AGENT Jay Baker, John Garvey FINANCIER Mike Esola MANAGEMENT Warner Brothers MANAGEMENT Anonymous Content PRODUCER Industry Linson Entertainment Entertainment SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 2 43 33 FATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO by Mike Jones KISSES An alternate telling of the historic APOLLO 11 mission by Matthew Aldrich to land on the moon that examines what might have A man goes on a three state crime spree with an happened if the astronauts had crash landed there. accomplice, his eleven year old daughter. AGENCY MANAGER AGENCY MANAGER CAA Lindsay Williams CAA Jewerl Ross AGENT PRODUCER AGENT FINANCIER David Kopple, FilmNation John Garvey, Warner Brothers JP Evans, Stuart Manashil PRODUCER Matt Rosen MANAGEMENT Pearl Street MANAGEMENT Silent R Management Productions The Gotham Group 30 30 THE CURRENT WAR MAGGIE by Michael Mitnick by John Scott 3 Based on the true story of the race between Thomas As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to system of electricity and sell their respective inventions terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a to the country and the world. flesh-eating zombie. AGENCY MANAGER AGENCY FINANCIER WME Jeff Silver CAA Pierre-Ange Le Pogam AGENT AGENT PRODUCER Simon Faber Billy Hawkins, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam MANAGEMENT Dan Rabinow Trevor Kaufman, Fourth Floor MANAGEMENT Matthew Baer Productions Sly Predator MANAGER Trevor Kaufman SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 3 28 27 THE END BEYOND THE PALE by Aron Eli Coleite by Chad Feehan Four people - a veteran broadcaster in London, a Teenage siblings suspect they’ve been ripped off by the sixteen year old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, town undertaker, but what they discover is much more and a devoted family man in Shanghai - each try to sinister than either imagined. make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours. AGENCY MANAGER CAA Guymon Casady, AGENCY AGENT Mary Lee CAA Matt Rosen, FINANCIER AGENT Jacqueline Sacerio Vendome Pictures Matt Rosen, MANAGEMENT PRODUCER Martin Spencer Management 360 The Fort FINANCIER Warner Brothers 27 24 EZEKIEL MOSS GRACE OF MONACO by Keith Bunin by Arash Amel A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power Grace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of career to focus on being a full time princess, uses everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save widow and her 11-year-old son. Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monaco’s Prince Rainier III are at odds over the princi- AGENCY MANAGER pality’s standing as a tax haven. CAA Alex Lerner, AGENT Sean Perrone AGENCY PRODUCER Rowena Arguelles PRODUCER CAA Pierre-Ange Le Pogam MANAGEMENT A Likely Story, Mandalay AGENT Kaplan/Perrone Pictures Rich Green, Matt Rosen FINANCIER Pierre-Ange Le Pogam SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 4 24 23 HE’S FUCKIN’ PERFECT BETHLEHEM by Lauryn Kahn by Larry Brenner A social media savvy girl who is pessimistic about love A group of people struggling to survive a zombie finds the perfect guy and decides to use her internet apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading research skills to turn herself into his perfect match. themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies don’t eat vampire. AGENCY WME AGENCY MANAGER AGENT CAA Mitch Solomon Cliff Roberts AGENT PRODUCER FINANCIER Martin Spencer, Roth Films Fox 2000 Jacqueline Sacerio PRODUCER MANAGEMENT Gary Sanchez Magnet Management 20 20 POWELL THE THREE MISFORTUNES by Ed Whitworth OF GEPPETTO Based on the true story of Colin Powell questioning the by Michael Vukadinovich Bush administration leading up to his United Nations A prequel to the story of Pinocchio in which presentation where he made the case for going to war Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war, and ad- with Iraq. venture, all to be with Julia Moon, his true love. AGENCY MANAGER AGENCY WME Ashley Berns ICM AGENT PRODUCER AGENT David Karp, Spirit Dance Ava Jamshidi Cliff Roberts, Entertainment FINANCIER Dan Cohan Fox MANAGEMENT PRODUCER Circle of Confusion 21 Laps Entertainment SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 5 19 17 THE KNOLL BASTARDS by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers by Justin Malen A rookie cop and his potential flame witness JFK Two brothers, raised to believe their biological father gunned down from the grassy knoll on November died, find out their mother slept with many powerful 22, 1963. Within hours, they’re on the run from the and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the murderers who desperately need them silenced. road to find their real father. AGENCY MANAGER AGENCY MANAGER ICM Jennifer Graham, Verve Chris Fenton AGENT Chris Huvane AGENT FINANCIER Aaron Hart PRODUCER Bill Weinstein, Paramount MANAGEMENT Management 360 Rob Herting PRODUCER Management 360 MANAGEMENT The Montecito Picture H2F Company 17 17 BLOOD MOUNTAIN CRAZY FOR THE STORM by Jonathan Stokes by Will Fetters After his team is ambushed and killed in Pakistan, The true story of Norman Ollestad’s relationship with his a young army ranger must escort the world’s father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing most wanted terrorist over dangerous terrain and competitive downhill skiing at the age of three. But it in order to bring him to justice. While being was that experience that allowed an 11-year old Norman to hunted by both of their enemies, they must find survive a plane crash amidst a blizzard in the San Gabriel a way to work together in order to survive. mountains. AGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY MANAGER UTA Energy Entertainment WME Oliver Obst AGENT MANAGER AGENT FINANCIER Ramses Ishak, Brooklyn Weaver Elia Infascelli-Smith Warner Brothers Michael Sheresky, MANAGEMENT PRODUCER Geoff Morley 3 Arts Entertainment Billy Gerber SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 6 17 17 DESPERATE HOURS FLARSKY by E Nicholas Mariani by Daniel Sterling A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu A political journalist courts his old babysitter, who is finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal now the United States secretary of state. invading force when a young girl shows up on a rancher’s doorstep covered in blood. AGENCY UTA AGENCY MANAGER AGENT UTA Britton Rizzio Julien Thuan AGENT FINANCIER PRODUCER Charles Ferraro, GK Films Point Grey Pictures Jenny Maryasis PRODUCER MANAGEMENT Infinitum Nihil Circle of Confusion 17 17 HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY A MANY SPLINTERED THING by Ed Solomon by Chris Shafer, Paul Vicknair A child prodigy tries to take control of his life away When a charming heartbreaker finally meets a girl he from his demanding parents. can’t have, he discovers the true meaning of love by living out other people’s love stories and writing his own. AGENCY FINANCIER CAA Sony AGENCY MANAGER AGENT PRODUCER UTA Missy Malkin Jay Baker, Escape Artists AGENT PRODUCER Todd Feldman, Jon Huddle, Wonderland Sound David O’Connor Jason Burns, and Vision Max Michael MANAGEMENT Brillstein Entertainment Partners SCREENWRITING ANNUAL 0 DECEMBER 2011 7 16 14 THE SLACKFI PROJECT DJANGO UNCHAINED by Howard Overman by Quentin Tarantino A hapless and broken hearted barista is visited by A freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty two bad-ass soldiers from the future who tell him hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them. two men set out to find Django’s enslaved wife. AGENCY AGENCY PRODUCER UTA WME Double Feature Films, AGENT AGENT The Weinstein Company Julien Thuan Mike Simpson FINANCIER FINANCIER Sony The Weinstein Company, PRODUCER Sony Matt Tolmach Productions 14 14 THE MUSEUM OF BROKEN ST VINCENT DE VAN NUYS RELATIONSHIPS by Ted Melfi by Natalie Krinsky When a twelve year old boy in need of a babysitter moves Lucy, a twenty-eight year old junior curator at the in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, is sleeping with mainly consists of gambling, hookers, and drinking, the her boss.