Hollywood is the new Black

Hurray for Hollywood! Those guys who make the world go round are furiously discussing the best screenplays never produced as specified by Franklin Leonard's The Hollywood Black List. Launched in 2005, the List only goes out to about 260 Industry Executives but immediately leaks out as the fabulous frenzy to find the next best thing ensues.

Among the screenplays on this year's list: a biopic of Grace Kelly (Please please please don't let Michelle Williams play her. PLEASE.), a post-apocalyptic zombie story wherein survivors seek aid from a vampire (Please please please let Michelle Williams be in this. PLEASE.), and a high school drama centered around four teens on their way to a screening of Jurassic Park in the late 1900s (I remember that. It was dramatic trying to see that movie. I seriously ate my whole bag of sour apple mall candy waiting in line for an hour at the suburban cineplex).

I think it's incredibly awesome that Franklin Leonard releases this list every year to get more buzz for films that have been looked over so that other lasting classics like Friends With Benefits, Final Destination 37, and basically anything starring Angeline Jolie and her grating British accent could be made.

Leonard being awesome by a beach somewhere

As a writer (I have something I'd like to pitch to you, Mr. Leonard), I have the utmost admiration for everyone trying to get their work our there. So here's to the little guy, the behind-the-scenes writer furiously hunched over his or her laptop subsisting on coffee, gluten free crackers, almond butter and chardonnay...May you all get that enormous paycheck you so rightly deserve and the subsequent invitations to parties, dates with streamlined gods and goddesses, and requests to write TV pilots.