Soon we’ll be releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the writers who made the Hit List in 2015 — where they were, and how far they’ve come in just one short year.
Dan Futterman
Follows the true story of Eric Harroun, a frustrated Army vet who, inspired by a pronouncement by President Obama that the Free Syrian Army was the true representative of the Syrian people, slipped across the Turkish border into Syria to join the fight against President Bashir al-Assad.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but touted as a sci-fi actioner set in a dystopian world.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but touted as a sci-fi actioner set in a dystopian world.
Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
A divorced, childless and demoralized 35-year-old woman finds her life upended by the unexpected attentions of a teenage boy.
Logline: When a middle aged woman fresh from her divorce is forced to move back in with her parents, she finds herself blindsided when she falls in love with a young man of nineteen.
Logline: Based story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schultz.
