10 Best Films Made From Black List Screenplays
8. Juno
Shortly after publishing her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life
of an Unlikely Stripper, Diablo Cody was encouraged by her manager, film
producer Mason Novick, to pen a screenplay.
Drawing on her friends’ and her own high school experience, she wrote Juno – on a laptop at a Minneapolis branch of Starbucks in just seven weeks, no less – which appeared on the first ever Black List back in 2005 with an impressive 24 mentions.
A friend of Novick’s passed Cody’s script onto director Jason Reitman who had just finished making his feature film debut with Thank You for Smoking and fell in love with Juno’s screenplay.
Though the film ran into a few delays along the way and Cody wasn’t sure her script would ever see fruition, it was eventually picked up by John Malkovich’s production company Mr. Mudd and Mandate Pictures and went on to win Best Original Screenplay at both the Academy Awards and BAFTAs in 2008.