The awesome film scripts Hollywood hasn’t snapped up
A BLISTERING biopic about one of the world’s most famous women has topped a ‘Black List’ of the best unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood.
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A BLISTERING biopic about music icon Madonna’s rise to fame has topped an annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
Compiled by Variety, the yearly ‘Black List’ is a survey of more than 250 studio executives, asking them to choose which are the favourite scripts they’ve read that so far haven’t received the greenlight for filming.
Writer Elyse Hollander’s Blond Ambition, which focuses on Madonna’s early 1980s transformation from struggling New York dancer to Queen of Pop, topped the list with 49 votes from the jury.
Among the other unrealised projects to appear on this year’s list are an untitled comedy script from The Mindy Project star Mindy Kaling and writer Flint Wainess’ Linda and Monica, which is billed as an inside look at Monica Lewinsky’s friendship with the friend who betrayed her, Linda Tripp.
Other biopics and factual films to make the list include I, Tonya — in which Aussie Margot Robbie has already signed up to play disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding — and The Post, looking at the events leading up to the Washington Post going public with the Pentagon Papers.
Appearing on the ‘Black List’ is often a promising start for an unproduced script — many of the screenplays named in previous years have then been turned into successful and critically acclaimed films, among them Slumdog Millionaire, Argo, The King’s Speech, Foxcatcher, Whiplash and the Imitation Game.
Signs are good for Blond Ambition, too — it’s been bought by film industry power player Brett Ratner’s Ratpac company.
There’s no word on whether Madonna has seen or indeed approves of the Blond Ambition script, however the pop icon has been in a reflective mood of late — just this week she gave a stirring speech while accepting Billboard’s Woman of the Year award, opening up about how she’s carved out a 34-year career in what at times has been a very hostile industry.
Originally published as The awesome film scripts Hollywood hasn’t snapped up
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