This year's "Black List" is out — a compilation of all the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood selected by a secret panel of insiders. We've hand picked our favorite genre scripts (including Clarity "What if the world woke up tomorrow to scientific proof of the afterlife?"). Take a look at our list, and try to guess which movie will be the next Inglorious Basterds and The King's Speech (both former members of the Black List).


A MONSTER CALLS

Patrick Ness

An adolescent boy with a terminally ill single mother begins having visions of a tree monster, who tells him truths about life in the form of three stories, helping him to cope with his emotions over his dying mom.

Agency: Michelle Kass Associates

Agents: Michelle Kass

SOVEREIGN

Geoff Tock, Greg Weidman

A man goes to space to destroy the ship that, upon going sentient, killed his wife.

Agency: WME

Agents: Daniel Cohan, Solco Schult

Management: Fourth Floor Productions

Manager: Chris Goble, Jeff Silver

Producer: 21 Laps Entertainment


REMINISCENCE

Lisa Joy Nolan

An "archeologist" whose technology allows you to relive your past finds himself abusing his own science to find the missing love of his life.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Kassie Evashevski, Keya Khayatian, Jullen Thuan

Financier: Legendary Entertainment

THE GOLDEN RECORD

Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell

The true story of how Carl Sagan fell in love while leading the wildest mission in NASA history: creating a golden record to encapsulate the experience of life on Earth for extraterrestrial intelligences.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: Tanya Cohen, Rob Herting, Adam Levine

Management: Hopscotch Pictures

Manager: Sukee Chew

Producer: Hopscotch Pictures

GAY KID AND FAT CHICK

Bo Burnham

Two high school misfits become costumed vigilantes and take out their frustrations on the students who have bullied them throughout high school.

Agency: CAA

Agents: Jason Heyman, Greg McKnight

Management: 3 Arts Entertainment

Manager: Dave Becky

Financier: Paramount Insurge



1969: A SPACE ODYSSEY OR HOW KUBRICK LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LAND ON THE MOON

Stephany Folsom

With NASA's Apollo program in trouble and the Soviets threatening nuclear war, a female PR operative conspires with NASA's Public Affairs Office to stage a fake moon landing in case Armstrong and Aldren fail, the goal being to generate public excitement that will aide the U.S. in winning the Cold War. But the op is faced with the biggest challenge of all: Filming the fake lunar landing with the help of the temperamental Stanley Kubrick.

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Manager: Aaron Kaplan

THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY

Nick Creature, Michael Sweeney

When a difficult film shoot spirals hopelessly out of control into a living nightmare, an ambitious young director must face his greatest fears to turn a troubled production into the biggest movie of all time. Set on Martha's Vineyard during the summer of 1974, this is the untold story of the making of JAWS.

Agency: Rothman Brecher

Agents: Jim Ehrich

Management: Heroes and Villains Entertainment

Manager: Markus Goerg, Mikhail Nayfeld


INK AND BONE

Zak Olkewicz

When a female book editor visits the home of a horror writer so he can complete his novel, she finds that all of his creations are holding him hostage.

Agency: WME

Agents: Daniel Cohan

Management: prolific

Manager: Will Rowbotham

Financier: Dimension Films

Producer: prolific

A BOY AND HIS TIGER

Dan Dollar

The true story of Bill Watterson, the creator of "Calvin & Hobbes".

Agency: CAA

Agents: Jon Cassir, Ali Trustman

Management: Industry Entertainment

Manager: Michael Botti

Financier: Warner Bros.

Producer: Appian Way Productions, Vertigo Entertainment, Romark Entertainment


THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING

Richard Cordiner

When his big break finally arrives, an idealistic young movie director, Steven Spielberg, risks failing to complete the movie JAWS when his 25-foot mechanical shark stops working.

Agency: Verve

Agents: Rob Herting, Adam Weinstein

Management: Kaplan/Perrone

Manager: Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone

RANDLE IS BENIGN

Damien Ober

Follows a woman in the 80's who works at an IBM-like company and is at the forefront of artificial intelligence research. When her project (named RANDLE) hits a major milestone indicating that she may have actually achieved AI, it is unexpectedly hijacked by the agenda of the company's mysterious CEO. As she dives deeper into the corporate agenda, she learns that there may be a connection between her project and the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

Agency: WME

Agents: Simon Faber, Solco Shuit

Management: Echo Lake Entertainment

Manager: Zadoc Angell, Dave Brown, James Engle

Financier: Echo Lake Entertainment

Producer: Echo Lake Entertainment


CAPSULE

Ian Shorr

A young man's life is turned upside down when he mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self.

Agency: UTA

Agents: Charles Ferraro

Management: Mosaic

Manager: Langley Perer

Financier: Fox

Producer: Hutch Parker Entertainment



CLARITY

Ryan Belenzon, Jeffrey Gelber

What if the world woke up tomorrow to scientific proof of the afterlife?

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: Nick LoPiccolo, Ida Ziniti

Management: Fourth Floor Productions

Manager: Jeff Silver

Producer: Bona Fide Productions



ELSEWHERE

Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis

After his girlfriend dies in a car accident, a man finds his true soulmate, only to wake from a coma and learn his perfect life was just a dream — one he is determined to make real.

Agency: Paradigm

Agents: David Boxerbaum

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Manager: Adam Kolbrenner

Producer: Madhouse Entertainment



EXTINCTION

Spenser Cohen

A man must do everything he can to save his family from an alien invasion.

Agency: WME

Agents: Solco Schuit

Management: Energy Entertainment

Manager: Brooklyn Weaver

Financier: Good Universe

Producer: Mandeville Films

REVELATION

Hernany Perla

A prison psychiatrist meets a death row inmate on the verge of his execution, who claims to be the only thing stopping the end of the world. As she begins to investigate his predictions, she finds them to be eerily accurate, and that she may be a central figure in the events to come.

Agency: Original Artists

Agents: Chris Saban

Management: Madhouse Entertainment

Manager: Ryan Cunningham

Financier: Lotus Entertainment

Producer: Circle of Confusion


TIME AND TEMPERATURE

Nick Santora

Based on a true story, Dale Julin (a low-level Fresno affiliate morning show host) stumbles upon the biggest story of his life - and though he has reached the midpoint of his career without ever being a "real journalist" - risks his safety and his marriage to uncover the truth that a small Atomic bomb exploded in Central Valley California during the Korean War - a secret that had been hidden for decades.

Agency: WME

Agents: Jason Spitz

Management: The Gotham Group

Manager: Jeremy Ball, Stephen Iwanyk, Lindsay Williams

PAN

Jason Fuchs

A prequel to JM Barrie's "Peter Pan". When an orphan is taken to the magical world of Neverland, he becomes a hero to the natives and leads a revolt against the evil pirates.

Agency: WME

Agents: Simon Faber, Phil Raskind

Financier: Warner Bros.

Producer: Berlanti Productions



PATIENT Z

Michael Le

In a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies, a man who speaks their language questions the undead in order to find a cure for his infected wife.

Agency: APA

Agents: David Saunders

Management: Hung Entertainment Group

Manager: Jonathan Hung

Financier: Screen Gems

Producer: Vincent Newman Entertainment


Read the full list here at The Black List!