“The 2008 Black List (Unproduced Screenplays) Update: Where Are They Now?”

This is back from Nov 2009, but ioncinema.com provides a good status report on what happened to the top 15 Black List scripts from 2008:

I thought we’d go back one year and see where we were at with the top 15 projects of the list. Only three films from that batch have moved beyond the “in development” status. While the top screenplay (see Gibson and the beaver) is currently in post and Tarantino worked at lightning speed with Basterds, the only other project in the top tier that is receiving the green light is I’m with Cancer. Before we check out the top 15, I thought it be worth mentioning the films that didn’t crack the top of the list.

Going down the list we have the Nat Faxon & Jim Rash’s The Descendants which becomes Alexander Payne’s next directing gig, the Geoff LaTulippe written Going the Distance via director Nanette Burstein is in the can and dated, Matt Greenhalgh’s Nowhere Boy (director Sam Taylor Wood) has already preemed on the other side of the pond. The much talked about Kevin Smith film, A Couple of Dicks from Mark and Robb Cullen gets out of the theatrical release gates very soon, Olatunde Osunsanmi just released his film The Fourth Kind in theaters this fall, Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air is coming next week with plenty of Oscar buzz, and Screen Gems releases Will Gluck’s Easy A in March.

The 15 scripts in question? The Beaver, Oranges, Butter, Big Hole, The Low Dweller, Fuckbuddies, Winter’s Discontent, Broken City, I’m with Cancer, Our Brand is Crisis, Inglourious Basterds, Great Hope Springs (formerly Untitled Vanessa Taylor Project), Galahad, The West is Dead, Manuscript, The Tutor.

What are your favorites in that group?

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