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Franklin Leonard is back to save screenplays from unproduced purgatory.
To gain entry to this years list, scripts received at least six mentions from the nominating committee.
Hollywood execs chose 74 screenplays for the 2022 list, and the range is something to behold.
Theres even a script aboutTrumps Four Seasons Total Landscaping slapstick snafu.
Based on a true story.
Jambusters, Filipe Coutinho (17 mentions)A mystery about what paper jams can teach us about life.
Based on the true story of Barney and Betty Hill.
They Came From a Broken World, Vanessa Block (14 mentions)The year is 1955.
The small town of Boon Falls has provided a local forest as refuge to aliens fleeing their war-torn planet.
The Boy Houdini, Matthew Tennant (12 mentions)New York, 1889.
Things slowly begin to devolve as the mothers hyper-monitoring and surveillance become suffocating.
Popular, Marley Schneier (10 mentions)GOP strategist Lee Atwater won the presidency for George H.W.
Bush in 1988, and his campaign changed politics forever and gave him the worst reputation in America.
The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?
Hundreds of people danced themselves to death over the course of a summer and no one knows why.
What does it want?
To show them their greatest fears.
Responsible for the degradation of American society.
All while topping Oprah in the ratings.
And along the way, accidentally helped to create the world we live in today.
Black Dogs, Kieran Turner (6 mentions)Based on the novel by Jason Burhmester.
The case was never solved.
For Joan, Larry, and Luke, its really a question of who to spend it with.
Based on Daka Hermons Scholastic YA novelHide & Seeker.
Rosie is sweet, caring, and popular, with dreams of being a star.
Aunt Beth has the scheme and Rosie has the talent.
All they have to do is get away with it.
