Have you heard of the Black List? I don’t mean the James Spader TV show, I’m referring to the list of great, unproduced screenplays of the year. Being on the annual black list is something most would-be screenwriters dream of. It generally leads to a big money sale, and knocks down the doors of the movie industry. It includes some really good movies – Arrival in 2012, Spotlight in 2013, Manchester By The Sea in 2014, etc. But it also lists screenplays that went on to be critical and commercial duds: The Johnny Depp scifi thriller Transcendence, and the Naomi Watt starrer Shut In from 2012, and 2013’s Pan that’s best left forgotten. The 2014 list also includes Morgan, the movie I watched last night.
AT THE FOOTHILLS OF MADNESS 