Good Luck, Corsica 72 and Now is Good top 2009 Brit List

I’m not sure what to make from the Brit List. A trio of films from last year’s batch (Nowhere Boy, Never Let Me Go and The Debt) that effectively received a greenlight, and are now in the can, and in the list’s inaugural year, Grant Heslov’s Men Who Stare at Goats was the top vote-getter. Now in its 3rd year, the “List” of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland is complied by only 40 people in the industry. You’ve got some attention-getting projects among the list below, that I’m sure we’ll be discussing in the near future and the Playlist made a good round-up, but for the sake of getting to the cream of the crop, I’ll look at the top three screenplays instead.

1. Good Luck Anthony Belcher (Ruby Films)
Screenwriter: George Kay
Storyline: A high-concept comedy based on an original idea by James Corden, about a loser who is awarded a week of perfect good fortune by the celestial Department of Good Luck, as compensation for the fact that they previously lost his file down the back of a cabinet. But Belcher discovers that sudden success can be a mixed blessing. Check out the script review at ScriptShadow.
Current Status: Jim Field Smith (upcoming Hard 10) is on board to direct. 

2. Corsica 72 (Ruby Films) 
Screenwriter: Neil Purvis & Rob Wade (Bond films)
Storyline: A mafia drama that details how a certain type of folk operate in a a country that is just West of Italy. Found this Time article. 
Current Status: No talent or filmmakers attached at this time. 

3. Now Is Good (Blueprint Pictures)
Screenwriter: Ol Parker (Imagine Me & You)
Storyline: Based on Jenny Downham’s debut novel Before I Die, this is about Tessa, a teenager with just a few months to live who makes a list of things to do before she dies, led by the goal of losing her virginity.
Current Status: No talent or filmmakers attached at this time. 

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen by Simon Beaufoy (Kudos Pictures)
Balance Of Power by Deborah Davis (Element Pictures/Scarlet Pictures)
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach & Ol Parker (Blueprint Pictures)
The Rapture by Daniel Hardy & Rupert Wyatt (Warner Bros)
Conviction by Bill Gallagher (Neal Street/Red Productions)
Frank Sidebottom Jon Ronson & Peter Straughan (Producers: David Barron & Stevie Lee)
I Wish I Wish by Peter Souter (Hartswood Films)
Love Minus Zero by Emma Forrest (Origin Pictures)
A Million Miles An Hour by Brendan Grant (Big Talk)
The Shimmering Essence Is Approaching Its Target aka Ponte’s Tower by Michael Thomas (Sprout Pictures)
A Bear Called Paddington by Hamish McColl & Paul King (Heyday Films/Warner Bros)
The Beautiful Fantastic by Simon Aboud (Producer: Kami Naghdi)
Cuckoo by Francesca Brill & Luke Watson (CMP Film)
Embassy by Jon Baird (Producer: Stefan Haller)
Eurovision by Dan Mazer (Working Title)
Flawless Skin Of Ugly People by Jack Thorne (Big Talk)
Grabbers by Kevin Lehane (Forward Films)
Great Expectations by David Nicholls (Number Nine Films)
The Haven by Mike Lesslie (Element Pictures)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam & Tony Grisoni (Recorded Picture Company)
Now, Love by Virginia Gilbert (Element Pictures)
Rafta Rafta by Ayub Khan Din (Left Bank)
Red Circle by Steve Knight (StudioCanal)
Rookwood by Steve Sarossy
Snatched by Lee Patterson
Trap For Cinderella by Iain Softley (Forthcoming Productions)
Treasure Island by Nail Johnson Under
The Skin by Jonathan Glazer (Producers: James Wilson & Nick Wechsler)
The Wettest County by Nick Cave (Red Wagon/SPE)
What Was Lost by Jeremy Brock (Heyday Films)
Wingman by Mat Kirkby (Peapie Films)