2024 Go Into The Story Highlights: Interviews with 2023 Black List Writers

To date, I have interviewed 85 writers whose scripts were named to the annual Black List.

THE WOLF IN CHIEFS CLOTHING
Adam Christopher Best

A lovable loser from a family of criminals becomes the Kansas City Chiefs’ most famous superfan. His newfound status is expensive, so he teams up with his imaginary friend — an anthropomorphic version of the team’s wolf mascot — and goes on a bank-robbing spree.

FORAGERS
Sam Boyer

When the illegitimate daughter of a Portland billionaire goes missing, her loved ones turn to Juno and Andi, local homesteaders and members of The Foragers — a grassroots network of experts dedicated to finding the lost and bringing them home.

PATSY
Filipe Coutinho

The untold and unfiltered true story of legendary country singer Patsy Cline, from her humble beginnings in Virginia to her untimely death at the height of her fame.

THE ADULTS IN THE ROOM
Jake Disch

On November 1, 2022, FTX was valued at $32 billion. On November 11, 2022, it filed for bankruptcy. This is the incredible true story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of FTX and its enigmatic founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.

FIRST YOU HEAR THEM
Sean Harrigan

A group of twenty-somethings try the ‘perfect drug’ for the first time. It’s only when they come down from the euphoric high that the hauntings begin: First you hear them. Then you see them. Then they come for you.

KAZAN
Chris Parizo

The story of the tumultuous relationship between Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan — born out of the success of DEATH OF A SALESMAN and destroyed when Elia Kazan named names to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, resulting in two of the greatest works of the 20th century: THE CRUCIBLE and ON THE WATERFRONT.

STAKEHORSE
Justin Piasecki

A racetrack veterinarian who runs an off-the-books ER for criminals finds his practice and life in jeopardy when he’s recruited for his patient’s heist.

BACKCOUNTRY
Kevin Sheridan

Once the future of extreme skiing, Brooks Provence is approached to ski the mountain that nearly ended his life two decades ago — this time alongside a young skier on the brink of stardom. But when disaster falls, Brooks must overcome his past and accomplish the impossible in order to save the lives of those he loves most.

LAST RESORT
Laura Stoltz

When a grieving woman takes a trip to a posh, Icelandic resort designed to assist its guests with ending their lives, she meets people who finally force her to accept the things she cannot explain.

Here are links to Go Into The Story interviews with 9 writers whose scripts were named to the 2023 Black List.

Adam Best
Sam Boyer
Filipe Coutinho
Jake Disch
Sean Harrigan
Chris Parizo
Justin Piaseck
Kevin Sheridan
Laura Stoltz

I did not attend film school. My education has been a lifelong pursuit of knowledge through watching and studying movies, reading and analyzing screenplays, writing and rewriting thousands of pages, and absorbing insights from every writer interview I can find.

I provide these interviews to Go Into The Story readers precisely for that reason: To make these resources available to screenwriters.

Here is a link to my interviews with 85 Black List writers.

Go Into The Story Interviews — Black List Writers

There’s more to come! I’m currently lining up interviews with writers who appeared on the 2024 Black List.

You can learn more about the Black List here.