The Black List: How An Email Survey Changed The Movie Industry [Vox]

It's thanks to this underground script list that movies like "Juno" and "Argo" finally got made. Oh, and movies like "The Beaver."

Phil Edwards has a chat with Franklin Leonard, the creator of The Black List, Hollywoods’ famous anonymous survey of unproduced screenplays. The Black List isn’t a guarantee that a script will be produced, however, it does give overlooked scripts a second shot of getting on the big screen.

A handful of academy award- winning-films found their second chance on the Black List. And in an industry brimming with multi-year contracted sequels, and well-established franchises, the Black List survey has become one of the few places in Tinseltown where one-off scripts have a chance to make it to the big screen.


(by: Vox)