The Black List 2011: The Films That Never Were

Here's a little industry thing for ya. Every year, lots of Hollywood producers draw up one of the very few things they'll easily agree on without lattes and insults flying.

The Black List throws together all the year's unfilmed scripts (and formalised pitches where there isn't a half-decent draft yet) that are actually pretty damn good, regardless of who's attached to them, who wrote them, or whose backside you have to embrace to get hold of them. Nomination and voting is by invitation only but rigorously anonymised.

And this is one blacklist you really want to get on, as if you make the list one year, odds are good they'll make your movie next year.

Here's the top of the list...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movi...e-top-ten.html

...and instantly I'm drawn to Imitation Game, (an Alan Turing biopic possibly financed by Google), Ezekiel Moss (sounds interesting) and Chewie (Spinal Tap-esque mockumentary chronicling the making of Star Wars from the point of view of Peter Mayhew, who played the big walking rug.)

The Current War is what popped out for me. It'd be interesting to see if a movie about the early years of electricity could do well.

Honestly, I'm not intrigued by any of them.

Father Daughter Time could be fun, if it's played as light-hearted and comedic as the title suggests, but the rest seem pretty uninteresting.

Obviously you can't tell too much just going by the very basic premise, but.... eh.

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

Father Daughter Time sounds to much like someone lifted the Big Daddy/Hit Girl dynamic and built a Farley Brothers style movie around it.

"Maggie" seems like it would be a good Syfy Movie of the week kind of thing.
"The Current War" might make for a interesting Made for TV film as well.

Thank you for the time...

@Travlr (Main) / @Tymers Realm (Test)

To be honest I didn't find any of them the least bit interesting. Tho I agree that a couple sound like crap the Siffee channel would make.

Nothing there really grabs me, but i can't really judge from a one or two line description.

Entries I would watch, but probably not pay $10+ to watch at a theater:

Chewie - am a SW junkie and this could be entertaining.

In the Event of a Moon Disaster - I love what-if/alternate history stories.

Maggie - despite the fact that the description is almost directly ripping off elements of The Walking Dead, if this was made somewhat tongue-in0cheek in the vein of Shawn of the Dead, I think it could be entertaining. As a straight sci-fi horror film, I'd probably pass.

The Current War - I can't see this ever being made into a feature film, but I would totally watch this as a documentary or miniseries on the History Channel (if the History Channel still ran programming that had anything to do with history).

The Current War looks interesting, but I've already seen this story on Dark Matters. And they did it in 20 minutes or less, not two hours.