David Guggenheim’s ‘Safe House’ Tops Inaugural Hit List

Days before The Black List reveals their most liked unproduced screenplays of 2010, The Tracking Board have released their very own version of a best of list, with a different kind of science and mandate: focus on spec scripts (update: TTB describes it best: a spec essentially means that “no one has paid you to write it beforehand, therefore most often a writer is writing that particular script fueled by passion and a dream, with no promise for payday at the end of the day”). The Hot List process is best described here – but to give you a gist in their owns words:

The Spec Market is essentially Hollywood’s roulette table. For some scripts, it is a place where they will rise to the golden gates of Bidding Wars, A-List Attachments, and Seven Figure Deals, but for others, they will disappear off into the lonely fields of Sampleville, sending their writer’s dreams off with them, as they dig around in the basement to build enough courage up to spend 3-6 months doing it all over again. And, it was here I wanted to create our list. – The Tracking Board

David Guggenheim’s Safe House was the top vote-getter and has an interesting story itself which was featured in the L.A Times at the beginning of the year. Here’s a quick look at the top ten – and go here for the full list. It’ll be fun to see where some of these titles do end up.  

113 Votes SAFE HOUSE by David Guggenheim
104 Votes CHRONICLE by Max Landis
97 Votes I-­‐95 by Greg Russo
91 Votes SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN by Evan Daugherty
84 Votes FAMILY GETAWAY by Jeremiah Friedman, Nick Palmer
76 Votes DARK MOON by Olatunde Osunsanmi
68 Votes YOUR BRIDESMAID IS A BITCH by Brian Duffield
65 Votes LAYOVER by Zach Dean
64 Votes TRIPLE NINE by Matt Cook
59 HOOF HARRINGTON’S GREATEST HITS by Dutch Southern