Are Tomorrow’s Movies Going To Be Less SF?

This year’sBlack Listof the best unproduced screenplay in Hollywood is out , and only one of them is scientific discipline fiction . Should we be worried ?

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Entertainment Weekly hasthe rundown of the ten – well , this year , eleven – well unmade movie scripts from this class , as vote for by over 300 pic insider and , although we ’re not go to pretend that we would n’t be rushing out to see a Jim Henson biopic or Aaron Sorkin ’s Facebook movie , we ’re depress by the lack of sci - fi or phantasy as the top ( peculiarly weigh how generic some of the thrillers that made it there wakeless ) . The only SF script to make it into the top ten was in last place , as well – Ronin and Sgt . Rock adapter Chad St. John’sThe Days Before :

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What ’s it about : A man from the future keeps hop one successive day into the preceding do-or-die to stop a vicious race of time - traveling stranger from wiping out humanity .

( Somewhere , Mark Waid ’s probably kicking himself that he used the “ locomotion back in clip a day at a prison term to try and change chronicle again ” gambit in DC’sThe Kingdomten eld ago , instead of turning it into a red-hot Hollywood script . )

We ’re inquire whether the genre ’s relative absence from the tilt mean that the SF script out there did n’t measure up – Not too surprising , if that ’s the case , consider that movies like Transformers : retaliation of The Fallen and GI Joe have prove that audiences are still happy for movies to have ropey scripts if the special force are amazing – or whether there are less SF scripts out there these daytime . Has geek chic descend out of favor , at last ? Only clip – and the aftermath of Avatar , undoubtedly – will assure .

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