{"id":15949,"date":"2021-12-13T21:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2021-12-13T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:51:22","slug":"black-list-2021-features-kanye-west-and-shania-twain-biopics-wild-mickey-rourke-masked-singer-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blue-subtitle.com\/blog\/black-list-2021-features-kanye-west-and-shania-twain-biopics-wild-mickey-rourke-masked-singer-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Black List 2021 Features Kanye West and Shania Twain Biopics, Wild Mickey Rourke \u2018Masked Singer\u2019 Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Black List, an annual ranking of Hollywood\u2019s best unproduced screenplays, has unleashed its 2021 edition \u2014 a smattering of delicious pop biopics, true crime and even a psychodrama about Mickey Rourke appearing on \u201cThe Masked Singer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Founded in 2005 by Franklin Leonard, the list surveys top studio and development executives asking them to share the scripts they adored but haven\u2019t yet greenlit. The rankings are then cross-referenced, and popularity is calculated by the frequency a title appears (the \u201cmentions\u201d).<\/p>\n

The top script on this year\u2019s list is \u201cCauliflower,\u201d an intense drama from writer Daniel Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the cruel guidance of a mysterious coach, an ambitious high school wrestler struggles to become a state champion while battling a bizarre infection in his ear that both makes him dominant in his sport and threatens his sanity,\u201d the synopsis reads. The script was mentioned 32 times across rankings. Jackson is repped by UTA and Bellevue. The film has Fuller Media attached as a producer.<\/p>\n

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Other notable titles include: \u201cThe Villain,\u201d which exposes the rise and fall of notorious \u201cPharma bro\u201d Martin Shkreli by Andrew Ferguson; Thomas Aguilar and Michael Ballin\u2019s \u201cThe College Dropout,\u201d about young\u00a0Kanye West\u2019s quest to make his first game-changing album; and a biopic of Canadian chanteuse\u00a0Shania Twain\u00a0from Jessica Welsh.<\/p>\n

Our favorite entry by far is \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d from writers Mike Jones and Nicholas Sherman. In the script, Oscar nominee and comeback kid Mickey Rourke \u201closes his mind after he\u2019s forced to take a gig on television\u2019s highest rated show: \u2018The Masked Singer.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full 2021 Black List, interspersed with videos announcing the projects:<\/p>\n

\u201cCauliflower\u201d by Daniel Jackson: Under the cruel guidance of a mysterious coach, an ambitious high school wrestler struggles to become a state champion while battling a bizarre infection in his ear that both makes him dominant in his sport and threatens his sanity.
\nAgency: UTA (Jessica Kantor, Grace Rover, Michael Sauvage)
\nManagers: Bellevue Productions (John Zaozirny, Zack Zucker)
\nProducer: Fuller Media
\nMentions: 32<\/p>\n

\u201cSee How They Run\u201d by Lily Hollander: A blind mother moves into a remote farmhouse with her young daughter, but the mystery of the home\u2019s previous inhabitants intrudes upon her attempts to repair their relationship.
\nAgency: Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston (Jim Ehrich)
\nManager: Sydney Blanke (Russell Hollander, Jon Huddle)
\nProducer: Fourth Wall Management
\nMentions: 25<\/p>\n

\u201cDivorce Party\u201d by Rebecca Webb:\u00a0Patricia Ford feels pretty good about trading her South Boston roots for a \u201cperfect\u201d life on New York\u2019s Upper East Side, until everything falls to shit and her raucous girlfriends throw her a Divorce Party at the home she\u2019s about to lose. As the night goes from wild to totally insane, Patricia takes back control of her life.
\nManager: 42 (Alexandra Kordas, Josh Varney)
\nProducer: 42
\nMentions: 23<\/p>\n

\u201cKiller Instinct\u201d by Lillian Yu: After a Hollywood assistant is publicly fired for admitting while on a conference call that he\u2019d love to kill his boss, he finds his boss dead in the office the next morning and goes on the lam to figure out the real culprit, all while being hunted by his boss\u2019s assassin.
\nAgency: UTA (Gregory McKnight, Max Michael)
\nManager: 360 (Marc Mounier, Clifford Murray, Daniel Rappaport)
\nProducer: Maximum Effort
\nMentions: 21<\/p>\n

\u201cUltra\u201d by Colin Bannon: When an ultramarathoner learns he is one of ten contestants chosen to take part in a secret race known as \u201cthe hardest race on Earth,\u201d he is forced to confront his past when he realizes there are deadly consequences for breaking the rules.
\nAgency: Verve Talent and Literary (Parker Davis, Adam Levine)
\nManager: Sugar23 (Sukee Chew)
\nFinancier: TriStar Pictures
\nProducer: Sukee Chew
\nMentions: 19<\/p>\n

\u201cWait List\u201d by Carly J. Hallman: A troubled millennial from small-town Texas will do anything to get into her top-choice law school, including murder.
\nManager: Empirical Evidence (Derrick Eppich, Daniel Seco)
\nMentions: 19<\/p>\n

\u201cMercury\u201d by Stefan Jaworski: When a first date takes a dangerous turn, down-on-his-luck Michael risks everything to save his newfound love from her past. Little does he know, the night \u2014 and his date \u2014 are not what they seem. Michael soon finds himself on a high-octane cat-and-mouse race across the city to save himself and uncover the truth, armed with nothing but his wit, his driving skills, and a 1969 Ford Mercury.
\nManager: Lit Entertainment Group (Adam Kolbrenner, Kendrick Tan)
\nProducers: ACE Entertainment, Lit Entertainment Group
\nMentions: 18<\/p>\n

\u201cIn The End\u201d by Brian T. Arnold: In the near future, terminal patients are given the opportunity to go out with a bang with personalized VR \u201cperfect endings.\u201d But when the best Transition Specialist gets far too close to a patient, he finds himself questioning everything in his life.
\nAgency: APA (Halle Mariner, Adam Perry, Sheryl Petersen)
\nManager: Bellevue Productions (Kate Sharp, John Zaozirny)
\nProducer: Sister
\nMentions: 17<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Benihana\u201d by Chris Wu: When a short Japanese kid from post-war Tokyo decides to make it big in the US of A, he discovers a winning recipe of exploiting his heritage with good old-fashioned American entertainment, to the great shame of his traditionalist father. This is the larger-than-life immigrant story of the OG daredevil playboy tycoon: the one-and-only Rocky Aoki.
\nAgency: Kaplan-Stahler (Michael Kolodony)
\nManager: Bellevue Productions (John Zaozirny)
\nProducer: Bellevue Productions
\nMentions: 16<\/p>\n

\u201cWorst. Dinner. Ever.\u201d by Jack Waz: An estranged father and son have to survive terrorists, explosions, and, most terrifying of all, dinner with each other.
\nManager: Fourth Wall (Russell Hollander)
\nMentions: 16<\/p>\n

\u201cGrizz\u201d by Connor Barry: A car accident strands a young paramedic in the rugged Pacific Northwest where she is hunted by a ravenous grizzly bear.
\nAgency: Gersh (Jonathan Martin, Danny Toth)
\nManager: Sugar23 (Sukee Chew)
\nProducer: Sukee Chew
\nMentions: 15<\/p>\n

\u201cHomecoming\u201d by Murder Ink (Brandon Broussard, Hudson Obayuwana, Jana Savage): Ten years after graduation, one of New York\u2019s most eligible bachelors and his eccentric wanderlust wingman try to pull their recently divorced friend out of his rut by taking him back to Howard University\u2019s legendary Homecoming for the best weekend of their lives.
\nAgency: APA (Halle Mariner, Adam Perry)
\nFinancier: Lionsgate
\nProducer: Get Lifted, Mandeville Films, Murder Ink
\nMentions: 15<\/p>\n