Setiap tahun, lembaga The Black List mengumumkan naskah-naskah terbaik yang beredar di lingkungan studio-studio dan filmmakers Hollywood untuk mencari 'rumah' agar naskah tersebut bisa difilmkan. Naskah-naskah ini dikompilasi dalam sebuah daftar khusus yang disebut The Black List, dimana 250 orang eksekutif Hollywood memilih mana yang terbaik, dan ingin naskah tersebut untuk difilmkan. Tahun ini, beberapa naskah yang sudah dalam pengembangan untuk diproduksi masuk juga ke dalam daftar. Sebut saja naskah karya Jason Fuch, Pan yang akan disutradarai oleh Joe Wright; naskah karya Jason Dean Hall, American Sniper yang akan dibintangi oleh Bradley Cooper dan disutradarai Steven Spielberg; Serta Holland, Michigan karya Andrew Sodroski, yang menjadi pemuncak daftar tahun ini, yang akan disutradarai oleh Errol Morris dan dibintangi oleh Naomi Watts.
Total, The Black List 2013 memuat 72 naskah, dimana daftar lengkapnya dapat kalian lihat melalui tautan ini. Berikut adalah 20 besar The Black List 2013. Angka yang terdapat di belakang judul merupakan angka yang menunjukkan jumlah pemilih naskah tersebut.
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN (46)
Andrew Sodroski
When a traditional Midwestern woman suspects her husband of infidelity, an amateur investigation unravels.
SECTION 6 (44)
Aaron Berg
An exploration of Great Britain’s secret intelligence agency, Ministry Intelligence, Section 6, known more commonly as MI6.
FRISCO (39)
Simon Stephenson
A forty-something pediatric allergist, who specializes in hazelnuts and is facing a divorce, learns lessons in living from a wise-beyond-her-years terminally ill fifteen-year-old patient when she crashes his weekend trip to a conference in San Francisco.
A MONSTER CALLS (27)
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 eventually cope with his emotions over his dying mom.
THE SPECIAL PROGRAM (25)
Debora Cahn
The true story of Jack Goldsmith, a young attorney who took charge of the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel, then courageously took on Vice President Cheney and his powerful inner circle when he discovered they were running a number of illegal activities through their so-called “Special Program.”
HOT SUMMER NIGHTS (24)
Elijah Bynum
A teenager’s life spirals out of control when he befriends the town’s rebel, falls in love, and gets entangled in selling drugs over one summer in Cape Cod.
SOVEREIGN (24)
Geoff Tock, Greg Weidman
A man goes to space to destroy the ship that, upon going sentient, killed his wife.
SHOVEL BUDDIES (22)
Jason Mark Hellerman
Over twenty four hours, four teenage friends try to complete the “Shovel List” (a will/bucket list) left for them by their best friend before he died of Leukemia.
POX AMERICANA (20)
Frank John Hughes
In the Old West, a group of soldiers go on a mission to slaughter a peaceful tribe in retaliation for another tribe’s attack on a white settlement, only to suffer at the hands of a devastating disease.
REMINESCENCE (20)
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.
THE INDEPENDENT (20)
Evan Parter
With America’s first viable independent Presidential Candidate poised for victory, an idealistic young journalist uncovers a conspiracy, which places the fate of the election, and the country, in his hands.
BEAST (19)
Zach Dean
With the hope of starting over, a reformed criminal with an ultra-violent past returns home, but when he finds his own family leading his teenaged son down the same path of destruction, he will stop at nothing to save his child.
THE GOLDEN RECORD (19)
Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell
The true story of how Carl Sagan fell in love while leading the wildest mission in NASA history: a golden record to encapsulate the experience of life on earth for advanced extraterrestrial life.
FAULTS (19)
Riley Stearns
An expert on cults is hired by a mother and father to kidnap and deprogram their brainwashed daughter. He soon begins to suspect the parents me be more destructive than the cult he’s being hired to save her from.
SWEETHEART (18)
Jack Stanley
A young hitwoman tries to escape the business but finds herself in more danger after a high school reunion and a one night stand.
SUPERBRAT (17)
Eric Slovin, Leo Allen
Temperamental tennis champion John McEnroe is sucked into a dangerous and ludicrous law enforcement sting during Wimbeldon in 1980.
DOGFIGHT (16)
Nicole Riegel
A fifteen-year-old boy discovers that his kidnapped older brother has been living in a hidden, meth-producing compound and infiltrates the camp in hopes of helping his brother escape.
THE CIVILIAN (16)
Rachel Long, Brian Pittman
After an American doctor has his identity stolen by a covert operative, he must assume the dangerous mission of the one who stole it in order to clear his name.
BURN SITE (15)
Doug Simon
After a young teenage girl is murdered, her stepfather falls back on his dark and violent past to find her killer.
QUEEN OF HEARTS (15)
Stephanie Shannon
Oxford instructor Charles Dodgson (Louis Carroll) tells stories to the dean’s daughter Alice and her sisters while falling in love with the dean’s wife.