The annual “Black List” of best unproduced screenplays is interesting in the moment but fascinating in the long run. What looks like a list of unfamiliar titles now could, in a few years, become a list of actual movies that have hit theaters, found audiences, won awards, made a ton of money bombed horribly, developed horrifying reputations, and led to bitter Twitter arguments. So scan this list, bookmark this page, and come back in a few years to see what happens.

While the bulk of the list is made up of work from new and veteran screenwriters whose names you probably not know, there are a few bigger names in this year’s list. The biggest name is probably Mindy Kaling, whose “Untitled Late Night Comedy” made the cut. Like several other scripts on the list, this project is currently being developed, with Kaling currently attached to star alongside Emma Thompson.

Graham Moore, whose screenplay for The Imitation Game made the 2011 Black List and later won him an Academy Award, made the list again with The Last Days of Night, which chronicles the conflict between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Eddie Redmayne is currently attached to star. Adrift, by Aaron Kandell and Jordan Kandell, is also making its way through development, with Shailene Woodley current set to star and with Baltasar Kormakur directing. Drew Pearce, best known for co-writing Iron Man 3, made the list with Hotel Artemis, which he plans to direct (and which has Jodie Foster set to star).

You can peruse the complete list below.

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BLOND AMBITION

Elyse Hollander

In 1980s New York, Madonna struggles to get her frst album released while navigating fame, romance, and a music industry that views women as disposal.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Simon Faber

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions

MANAGER: John Zaozirny

35

LIFE ITSELF

Dan Fogelman

A multigenerational love story that weaves together a number of characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back.

AGENCY: WME

AGENT: Danny Greenberg

MANAGEMENT: Management 360

MANAGER: Eryn Brown

PRODUCERS: Rhode Island Avenune, Temple Hill

FINANCIERS: FilmNation

THE OLYMPIAN

Tony Tost

The true story of an underdog rower trying to make it into the 1984 Olympics, told through the story of his relationships with his coach, his father, his fancée, and with competition itself.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Jill Gillett, Sylvie Rabineau

MANAGEMENT: Management 360

MANAGERS: Guymon Casady, Jill McElroy

PRODUCERS: Management 360

PRODUCERS: RatPac Entertainment, Michael De Luca Producutions, Bellvue Productions

THE POST

Liz Hannah

Before Watergate, there was the Pentagon Papers. This is the true story of how Washington Post scion Katharine Graham and legendary editor Ben Bradlee overcame their differences to publish the story that would change their lives.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Dan Erlij, Keya Khayatian Carolyn Sivitz

MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Management

MANAGERS: Brittany Kahan, Graciella Sanchez

PRODUCERS: Pascal Pictures, Star Thrower Entertainment

28

VOYAGERS

Zach Dean

The cosmic love story of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Dan Aloni, Simon Faber, Solco Schuit

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

PRODUCER: Lynda Obst Productions

FINANCIERS: Warner Bros

25

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

Explores the entire history of the universe and our species through three interwoven storylines that question the very nature of life, love, mortality, where we’ve been, and where we’re going; the past, present, and future of the human race.

AGENCY: WME

AGENT: Mike Fera

MANAGEMENT: LBI

MANAGER: Harry Lengsfield

22

O2

Christie LeBlanc

Waking up inside a cryogenic chamber with no memory of how she got there, Charlie must somehow escape the chamber before her air runs out.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Joe Mann, Pete Stein

MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Entertainment

MANAGERS: James Engle, Adam Riback

UNTITLED LAX MANDIS PROJECT

Seth Spector

A frustrated film exec at odds with the state of his industry is forced to work with the one person who is making him question everything.

21

DARK MONEY

Matt Fruchtman

The true story of a young stock trader who goes to work for billionaire tycoon Steve Cohen and gets involved in the biggest insider trading scandal in history.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Sue Carls, Jon Cassir, Brian Kend, Joe Mann

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

PRODUCER: Echo Lake Entertainment

LETTERS FROM ROSEMARY KENNEDY

Nick Yarborough

Told through a series of letters to family members, the tragic true story of Rosemary Kennedy, a vibrant, passionate young woman and oldest daughter of Joe and Rose Kennedy. Born with a severe learning disability, Rosemary so worried her father with her erratic behavior that he believed the stigma of mental illness in the family would ruin his plans to build a political dynasty. He hid her away in convents and sanitariums and ultimately had her lobotomized.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Simon Faber

MANAGEMENT: Epicenter

MANAGERS: Allan Cantor, Jarrod Murray

20

LINDA AND MONICA

Flint Wainess

The absolutely crazy true story of the relationship between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp, the woman who nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency – and herself in the process.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENT: Charles Ferraro

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg

PRODUCER: Escape Artists

19

HALA

Minhal Baig

When a teenaged Muslim-American girl, struggling with identity issues already, discovers her father is having an afair with a colleague, she responds by seducing her English teacher, ultimately leading to her parents’ divorce.

MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Entertainment

MANAGER: Ari Lubet

PRODUCER: Overbrook Entertainment

18

THE MISERABLE ADVENTURES OF BURT SQUIRE ABOARD THE HORN HIGH YO

Ben Bolea

The unbelievable true story of a family man from Alaska in the midst of a midlife crisis who embarks on what he hoped would be a dream sailing vacation but ends up shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean with a charming but psychotic sea captain who has decided to stop taking his medication.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Holly Jeter

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions

MANAGER: Jeff Portnoy

PRODUCERS: LD Entertainment, Kim Zubick

FINANCIER: LD Entertainment

THE TIME TRAVELER’S LA RONDE

Tom Dean

An exploration of relationships as a man witnesses diferent types of love across the ages.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Roger Green, Meyash Prabhu

MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion

MANAGERS: Zach Cox, Daniela Garcia-Brcek

PRODUCERS: Circle of Confusion

17

REVOLVER

Kate Trefry

Based on true events in Anchorage, Alaska in 1966, a teen girl attempts to sneak into the hotel where the Beatles are staying to lose her virginity to George Harrison.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Amanda Hymson, Keya Khayatian

MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment

MANAGER: Lee Stobby

15

FAIRY GODMOTHER

Chiara Atik

When sought after Fairy Godmother Faye is hired by a mind-bogglingly gorgeous teenage client, Kenzie, to fnd her true love with the hottest prince in the land, Faye fnds herself facing an unfamiliar challenge when the prince starts falling for her instead.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Tanya Cohen, Sarah Self

MANAGEMENT: Think Tank Management

MANAGER: Tom Drumm

PRODUCER: A Thousand Ships

FINANCIER: MGM

FREE GUY

Matt Lieberman

A bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a realistic, open world action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving the city.

AGENCY: WME

AGENTS: Simon Faber, Roger Green

MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Kolbrenner

PRODUCER: Berlanti Productions

FINANCIER: 20th Century Fox

THE KINGS OF MAINE

Kathy Charles

Living with his wife and child in a trailer while working as a janitor, Stephen King struggles with alcoholism and his own dark history as he attempts to complete Carrie.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro

MANAGEMENT: Bellvue Productions

MANAGER: John Zaozirny

LAYLA…AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS

Derek Weissbein

Based on the lives and times of Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Pattie Boyd and the tumultuous love triange that inspired an entire generation of music.

AGENCY: APA

AGENTS: Adam Perry

MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Entertainment

MANAGER: Adam Riback

PRODUCERS: LBI Entertainment, Le Grisbi Productions, Real Creative Productions

MAXIMUM KING!

Shay Hatten

An outlandish, surreal imagining of how in 1985 Stephen King wrote and directed his horror classic Maximum Overdrive.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Joe Mann, Praveen Pandian

MANAGEMENT: Lee Stobby Entertainment

MANAGER: Lee Stobby

14

BATTLE OF ALCATRAZ

Neil Widener, Gavin James

A plan to escape from Alcatraz prison turns into a battle and hostage crisis that pits armed prisoners against US Army troops for two full days.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Jon Cassir, Joe Mann

MANAGEMENT: Grandview

MANAGERS: Matt Rosen

PRODUCERS: Automatik, Matt Charman

FINANCIER: Paramount

I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW

Mike Makowsky

The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse — until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Rob Herting, Praveen Pandian

MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion

MANAGER: Susan Solomon

PRODUCERS: Automatik, Estuary Films, Exhibit, Mike Makowsky

MAN ALIVE

Joe Greenberg

After an alien invasion takes over the minds of humankind, one survivor known as “Man” must make peace with the alien force to fight a greater evil.

AGENCY: Verve Talent and Literary Agency

AGENTS: Bryan Besser, Parker Davis

MANAGEMENT: Good Fear Film + Management

MANAGERS: Scott Stoops, Jake Wagner

PRODUCERS: 26 Keys, Good Fear

FINANCIER: Fox

MOTHER

Michael Lloyd Green

A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot “Mother” – designed to repopulate the earth’s surface following an extinction-level event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

MANAGEMENT: Echo Lake Entertainment

MANAGERS: Dave Brown, James Engle

PRODUCERS: The Penguin Empire, Southern Light Films SLA

FINANCIER: Rhea Films

UNTITLED LATE NIGHT COMEDY

Mindy Kaling

A veteran late-night talk show host comes close to losing her job after hiring the show’s frst female writer.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENTS: Michael Cooper, Maha Dakhil

MANAGEMENT: 3 Arts Management

MANAGER: Howard Klein

PRODUCERS: Feigco, Scott Rudin

FINANCIER: Fox 2000

13

KING OF LA

Chris Bremner

Set in the 1980s, based on the true story of a man who went from star DEA agent to convicted drug trafficker in the worst corruption scandal in DEA history.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Emerson Davis, Ben Jacobson

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGERS: Lindsey Framson, Josh Goldenberg

PRODUCERS: Bridle Path Films, Scott Free

LET THE EVIL GO WEST

Carlos Rios

In the 1800s, a father desperate to care for his family finds a barrel of gold, that may be less fortune than great curse.

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGER: Hannah Ozer

VILLAINS

Dan Berk, Robert Olsen

Two small time robbers become prisoners when they break into a house and discover a ten year old girl chained up in the basement.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENTS: Peter Dodd, Charles Ferraro

MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment

MANAGER: Josh Goldenberg

PRODUCERS: Preferred Content, Russel Geyser, Two Ton Films