Video: “The Last Days of TJ Staggs”

Watch the Black List produced short comedy film starring Paul Scheer and the screenplay written to produce it.

Franklin Leonard and company did something different to unveil the 2018 annual Black List: They produced a comedy short featuring Paul Scheer called The Last Days of TJ Staggs.

The Black List, Hollywood’s annual rundown of unproduced screenplays, unveiled its titles today in Easter Egg fashion, hiding all 73 screenplay selections in a six minute-42 second second short The Last Days of TJ Staggs which starred Paul Scheer as an agent who pulls a Rip Van Winkle in 1998, wakes up 20 years later, and realizes how the town has changed.

Hollywood’s annual rundown of unproduced screenplays, unveiled its titles today in Easter Egg fashion, hiding all 73 screenplay selections in a six minute-42 second second short The Last Days of TJ Staggs which starred Paul Scheer as an agent who pulls a Rip Van Winkle in 1998, wakes up 20 years later, and realizes how the town has changed.

Here’s the film:

And here’s the script:

You can download this year’s Black List and read my analysis of it here.