2011 Black List Brimming With Genre Material

Another year.  Another Black List.  And another year of rumblings questioning the list’s validity.  The Black List, you see, is a culmination of the best unproduced screenplays as voted on by a group of anonymous Hollywood execs.  Agencies who rep the writers of the scripts on the Black List win out because their clients are getting buzz and, naturally, there is suspicion that some execs who vote each year play favorites.  That said, the 2011 Black List is in and it might offer an early look at some of the genre projects you will see getting made in the near future.

For your sake, I’ve extracted simply the horror projects that made this year’s list.  There are zombie stories a-plenty and a tale about a bunch of kids that catch a preview screening of Jurassic Park (because the concept of a bunch of nerds nerding out over a movie worked so well for Fanboys?).

MAGGIE by John Scott 3

As a “walking dead” virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENT: Billy Hawkins, Dan Rabinow

MANAGEMENT: Sly Predator

MANAGER: Trevor Kaufman

FINANCIER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam

PRODUCER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Trevor Kaufman, Matthew Baer

BEYOND THE PALE by Chad Feehan

Teenage siblings suspect they’ve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister than either imagined.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENT: Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio

MANAGEMENT: Management 360

MANAGER: Guymon Casady, Mary Lee

FINANCIER: Vendome Pictures

PRODUCER: The Fort

BETHLEHEM by Larry Brenner

A group of people struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies don’t eat vampire.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENT: Martin Spencer, Jacqueline Sacerio

MANAGEMENT: Magnet Management

MANAGER: Mitch Solomon

PRODUCER: Roth Films

HIDDEN by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

An elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak.

AGENCY: Paradigm

AGENT: Chris Smith

MANAGEMENT: MXN

MANAGER: Mason Novick

FINANCIER: Warner Brothers

PRODUCER: Mason Novick, Roy Lee, Lawrence Grey

GRIM NIGHT by Allen Bey, Brandon Bestenheider

A family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year.

AGENCY: Verve

AGENT: Bryan Besser

FINANCIER: Universal

PRODUCER: Marc Platt Productions, Unbroken Pictures

DEAD OF WINTER by Sarah Conradt

A teenage girl heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her father and new stepmother – an experience the father hopes will bond the two ladies. But when a mysterious wounded Park Ranger shows up, family bonding will be the least of their concerns.

AGENCY: CAA

AGENT: Jacqueline Sacerio

MANAGEMENT: Hopscotch Pictures

MANAGER: Sukee Chew

FINANCIER: Lionsgate (distrib), Wind Dancer (financing)

PRODUCER: Sherryl Clark, Hopscotch Pictures

JURASSIC PARK by Imran Zaidi

A high school couple and two of their friends ditch school to catch a special preview screening of JURASSIC PARK.

AGENCY: UTA

AGENT: Jason Burns, Jenny Maryasis

MANAGEMENT: Management 360

MANAGER: Darin Friedman

GASLIGHT by Ian Fried

Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck.

AGENCY: WME

AGENT: Dan Cohan, Mike Esola

MANAGEMENT: Prolific

MANAGER: Will Rowbotham

SUBJECT ZERO by Dave Cohen

A Frankenstein-like tale of a scientist who develops a powerful new drug that brings his son back to life after he dies in a terrible car accident. Unfortunately, the desperate experiment of a loving father leads to the creation of a flesh-eating zombie epidemic with horrific consequences.

AGENCY: ICM

AGENT: Kathleen Remington, Emile Gladstone

MANAGEMENT: Generate

MANAGER: Jeremy Platt

For the full list, head to…Deadline.

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