The 2025 Blacklist is here. Curated from over 500 film executives’ top ten screenplay picks of the most liked, unproduced scripts.
Here’s a full breakdown of our favorites (w/ IMDBPro links):
Writer: Ward Kamel
Prod Co: Killer Films, Vertical Entertainment
Synopsis:
After an ambitious pharma founder sells a portion of himself to a charismatic billionaire magnate, his world spirals into a high-stakes battle to buy back control of his company, his future, and his life.
This is listed as a drama, but the logline leans toward body horror. A la the last Killer Films foray into this territory, A Different Man.
Writer: Alan Fox
Synopsis:
In a near-future obsessed with AI generated nostalgia, a repressed droid wrangler is assigned to build a David Bowie replica -- but as the droid begins evolving beyond its programming, the wrangler must confront the creative dreams she buried, and decide whether to protect her job or risk everything to reclaim her voice.
Like Being John Malkovich for 2025.
Frostbite
Writer: Michael Jones
Synopsis:
There are 300 frozen bodies on the way to the summit of Mt. Everest. For blind climber Lucas Mills, he can still hear them. A survival horror experience on Everest.
We could see this getting made.
Also, A24 and Emma Stone’s Fruit Tree have an Untitled Erotic Teen Fan Fiction Movie.
And Apple has a fun one about parents who make up a traumatic memory for their son so he can write about it in his college essay. That’s called Early Action.
Also, Julia Oh (prod: Babygirl) has the film Flamer.
Ok, last one, Waffle House Index by Plan B.
Check out the full list here with some projects from Netflix, BoulderLight, Blake Lively, and a strange beetle.