The Love List 2024 Launches First Issue With 14 Best Unproduced Romance Scripts
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Love List has released its inaugural list highlighting the best 14 unproduced romance-centered screenplays and pilots of the year just in time for Valentine’s Day.
The list was read and curated by a group of anonymous readers, in addition to writer Lindsay Grossman and Olive Bridge TV exec Madison Jones, who launched the Love List last month. “We were blown away by the response we got, especially in the Love List’s first year,” Jones told Deadline. “We were really encouraged by the quality of submissions sent our way.
And we’re excited we’re able to highlight a lot of up-and-coming writers too.” Grossman added, “Our hope is that these projects will be read by the industry at large and that they will ultimately be sold and produced.
Coming out of a pandemic, and then a double-strike, we know there’s a need for stories that inspire and touch our hearts, and all of these projects more than fit that bill.” Below are the 14 Love List projects, in no particular order: Crutches by Lauren Bachelis Iser (Feature Romantic Comedy) Logline: Forced to move back home after a sudden knee injury, Becca Peterson, a 30-something commitment-phobe, decides to “Cyrano” her widowed mom Diane’s love life, leading to both mother and daughter helping one another back on their feet.
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