'Call Up' tops Brit List

LONDON -- "The Phone Call Up," a sci-fi horror script by Charles Barker occur the field of virtual gaming, tops this year's Brit List, which ranks probably the most loved unproduced scripts within the U.K. and Irish film community. Barker is really a advertisements director with extensive CGI experience. "The Phone Call Up," which heads their email list with 10 votes, has been produced by rookie producer Matt Wilkinson, who left his publish like a development professional at Working Title captured to begin their own company Stigma Films. The Brit List is modelled on Hollywood's Black List, which asks a swimming pool of development executives, agents and producers to recommend a common unproduced scripts. Second within this year's Brit List, with eight votes, is William Boyd's adaptation of their own novel "Regular Thunderstorms," that is being produced by David Thompson's Origin Pictures with BBC Films. It is a thriller a good innocent guy being went after across London by police along with a hitman. In joint third place, with seven votes each, are Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth's comedy "Olivia and Jim" from Forward Films, and Hong Khaou's drama "Lilting yesteryearInch from producer Dominic Buchanan, in regards to a surviving mother attempting to make feeling of her son's dying. Origin Pictures has two other highly-placed projects out there, playwright Polly Stenham's adaptation of her very own play "Tusk Tusk," and James Graham's "X+Y" in regards to a teenage math prodigy's mission to obtain the formula for love. Both received six votes, together with "Guy Up" by Tess Morris, an intimate comedy being produced by Large Talk for Studiocanal. Their email list includes several game titles by high-profile authors. William Davies, whose credits include "Johnny British Reborn" and "How you can Train Your Dragon," has five votes for his drama "Second Is Nowhere," in development at BBC Films. One of the scripts with four votes would be the Focus Features project "Baghdad Wedding," modified by Hassan Abdulrassak from their own play, together with Nick Drake Jay Basu's crime thriller "Bad Traffic" for producers David Gerson, Nick Wechsler and Rory Gilmartin and Juliette Towhidi's adaptation of Vera Brittan's classic WW1 memoir "Testament of Youth" for Heyday. Also with four votes are Sebastian Foster's Western "Burnthaven" for Cloud Eight Films, and Catherine Shepherd's comedy "Just like a Virgin" in regards to a contemporary and unvirginal Mary who discovers she is going to give birth to another Deliverer. Scripts with three votes include "The Invisible Lady," concerning the mistress of Charles Dickens, compiled by Abi Morgan ("Shame," "The Iron Lady") and 2 adaptations of John LeCarre books. "Our Type of Traitor," modified by Hossein Amini ("Drive"), and "A Popular Guy," modified by Andrew Bovell ("Lantana") with Anton Corbijn set to direct. Both LeCarre projects are now being produced by Ink Factory and Potboiler Prods. Other notable projects with three votes include "Miss You Already," by director Paul Andrew Williams and comedienne Morwenna Banks an adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Buccaneers" by Heidi Thomas for Ruby Films a David Nicholls version of Thomas Hardy's novel "Not Even Close To the Madding Crowd" for DNA Films and "I, Macrobane," a black comedy by author/director Ben Wheatley, being produced by Large Talk. Finishing their email list are Amber Trentham and Thomas Carty's romantic thriller "Available Light" Trevor Preston's thriller "China Busker" Nicholas Horwood's horror script "The Great People" Howard Overman's comedy thriller "The Slackfi Project," in development at The new sony David F. Shamoon's road movie "RemovingInch and Joshua St Johnston's musical "Walking on Sunshine" with Vertigo. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com