'Call Up' tops Brit List

LONDON -- "The Telephone Call Up," a sci-fi horror script by Charles Barker occur the area of virtual gaming, tops the 2010 Brit List, which ranks most likely probably the most loved unproduced scripts inside the U.K. and Irish film community. Barker can be a ads director with extensive CGI experience. "The Telephone Call Up," which heads this list with 10 votes, continues to be created by rookie producer Matt Wilkinson, who left his publish just like a development professional at Working Title taken to start their very own company Stigma Films. The Brit List is modelled on Hollywood's Black List, which asks a pool of development professionals, agents and producers to recommend a typical unproduced scripts. Second in this particular year's Brit List, with eight votes, is William Boyd's adaptation that belongs to them novel "Regular Thunderstorms," that's being created by David Thompson's Origin Pictures with BBC Films. It's a thriller a great innocent guy being attacked across London by police together 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, of a making it through mother trying to create sense of her son's dying. Origin Pictures has two other highly-placed projects available, playwright Polly Stenham's adaptation of her own play "Tusk Tusk," and James Graham's "X+Y" of a teenage math prodigy's mission to get the formula for love. Both received six votes, along with "Guy Up" by Tess Morris, a romantic comedy being created by Large Talk for Studiocanal. This list includes several game game titles by high-profile authors. William Davies, whose credits include "Johnny British Reborn" and "The best way to Train Your Dragon," has five votes for his drama "Second Is Nowhere," in development at BBC Films. Among the scripts with four votes will be the Focus Features project "Baghdad Wedding," modified by Hassan Abdulrassak using their own play, along 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 "As being a Virgin" of a contemporary and unvirginal Mary who finds out she'll give birth to a different Deliverer. Scripts with three votes include "The Invisible Lady," in regards to the mistress of Charles Dickens, put together by Abi Morgan ("Shame," "The Iron Lady") and a pair of adaptations of John LeCarre books. "Our Kind of Traitor," modified by Hossein Amini ("Drive"), and "A Well Known Guy," modified by Andrew Bovell ("Lantana") with Anton Corbijn set to direct. Both LeCarre projects are increasingly being created 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 "Definately Not the Madding Crowd" for DNA Films and "I, Macrobane," a black comedy by author/director Ben Wheatley, being created by Large Talk. Finishing this list are Amber Trentham and Thomas Carty's romantic thriller "Available Light" Trevor Preston's thriller "China Busker" Nicholas Horwood's horror script "The Truly Amazing People" Howard Overman's comedy thriller "The Slackfi Project," in development in the new the new sony David F. Shamoon's road movie "RemovingInch and Joshua St Johnston's musical "Walking on Sunshine" with Vertigo. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com