The family adventure film Super Gran tops the list of adventure films for the year 2023 – The Hollywood Reporter

The family adventure comedy has topped the 2023 edition of The British List, the UK’s version of the Blacklist of Unproduced Scripts.

Get 18 recommendations, Kerry Collins Super gran — based on the British children’s television series (which had a song performed by Billy Connelly) — led a total of 13 scripts to the final shortlist, which this year required a minimum of 12 recommendations for inclusion. For the first time since its founding in 2007, the 2013 Brit List has been included – which over the years has included Oscar winners including King’s speech, Danish girl And Favorite – Combined film and television scripts.

“What an exciting year! Thirteen scripts from fourteen fantastic writers have been included in the BRIT List 2023. I am particularly pleased that three fiction scripts have topped the list this year – the first time since the BRIT has combined film and TV scripts,” said founder and director The Brit List Alexandra Arlango: “I hope this represents a British cinema renaissance.”

The volume of scripts put forward for recommendation – and the number of participating companies from the UK film and TV industries – continues to grow. Most importantly, the range of written stories is diverse, engaging and brilliantly entertaining.

See Britain’s full list for 2023 below.

Super gran Written by Kerry Collins (represented by 42) – 22 recommendations
Producers: Brook Media
Genre: Feature Film Genre: Family Adventure Comedy
Summary: A 12-year-old dyslexic London school boy, tired of people saying he’s stupid, is sent to stay with his boring, uptight Scottish grandmother for Christmas. However, he is astonished to discover that she has secret superpowers and a secret spy base beneath Loch Ness, where he is taken on an epic adventure in her 1980s mini-plane, where he does battle with his arrogant tech bros who want to bring about immediate climate change for profit. In this chaos, the boy discovers that his dyslexia helps him see the world in a different way, giving him his superpower with which he can help Super Gran.

The golden shine of a beetle Written by Henry Blake and Xiao Tang (Cassarotto) – 18 recommendations
Producers: Bosena and Two Birds Entertainment
Form: Fiction Genre: Body horror love story
Summary: 1919, East London. A Chinese dock worker and a white English secretary fall in love, but their relationship is threatened by societal disdain, which results in the woman being transformed into a beetle. Can their love transcend pain?

troll Written by Maja Bodenstein (Cassarotto) – 16 recommendations
Producers: Joy Productions
Format: Fiction Genre: Psychological thriller
Summary: A humble tailor’s daughter arrives at a manor house on an isolated island, newly married to the third brother of the family who resides there. But she soon discovers that there is more to the matriarch’s hold on the family than just their hopes of inheritance alone, and she realizes that there may be power in the disturbing anatomical dwarf that the matriarch keeps under lock and key.

boldness Written by Libby Adam (Curtis Brown) – 15 recommendations
Producers: Water and Energy Company
Form: Television Genre: Crime Thriller
Summary: Raphael has spent his life trying to escape his family’s legacy. Katie spent her time trying to live up to one level. So when a high-stakes cocaine deal begins to go down, they are both drawn into the criminal underworld where their pasts force them to question whether love and justice can coexist.

Beautiful gaime by Asad (Independent Talent Group) – 14 recommendations
Producers: 5 Acts Productions
Genre: Series type: Comedy drama
Plot: A failing gay amateur soccer team is in desperate need of a rescue and is looking for a new star player to be their unconventional hero. Can they save their football club and themselves in the process?

Preach to me Written by Alfie Coates (Curtis Brown) – 14 recommendations
Producers: Yes
Format: TV Genre: Supernatural Drama
Summary: All Darcy wanted was to find her real father. But when your dad runs a boy band – and when there’s a vampire in that band – it’s hard to avoid getting blood on your hands.

Antipop Written by Sam Ferguson (Curtis Brown) – 13 recommendations
Producers: Yes
Format: Television Genre: Historical Adventure, Comedy
summary: Antipop The film revolves around two medieval rogues who get in over their heads after crashing a party at the Count of Avignon’s castle. There, they find a scheming pit of snakes planning to appoint a new pope to their wedding – an anti-pope. When an impostor accidentally kills his chosen cardinal, he is forced to take their place in order to survive.

Preservation Written by Matthew McDevitt (Independent Talent Group) – 13 recommendations
Producers: Yes
Genre: Series type: Crime Drama
Synopsis: On Donegal Island, two Gardai encounter a storm, paranoid locals and each other as they try to preserve the scene of a murder/suicide. But when they discover an entire community complicit in generational crimes, they will test each other’s limits on “what’s in the public interest.”

DaSilva and Sharp Written by Carla Marie Sweet (Agency) – 13 recommendations
Producers: Yes
Format: TV Genre: Police Drama
Summary: City policewoman DS Melanie Sharp moves to Saltney-On-Sea, a small town on the Welsh and English border, after being appointed as maternity cover for local detective Portia DaSilva. But when Portia returns from vacation to find Mel stuck in her place, she can’t help but feel like she’s trying to take her place. As animosity grows between the two women, their boss involves them in solving a huge local case.

Marco and Gordon Written by Joe Bishop (Independent Talent Group) – 12 recommendations
Producers: Yes
Format: TV Genre: Drama
summary: Marco and Gordon It traces the volatile and tempestuous relationship between two giants of British cooking: Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay. We follow them through the boom and bust of their London life in the 1990s, and the explosive end of their personal and professional alliance.

Foxes Written by Dexter Flanders (United Agents) – 12 recommendations
Producers: The Happy Prince
Format: TV Genre: Drama
Summary: If one kiss had the power to destroy everything, would you risk it? A deeply moving and complex story about family, community, and sexual identity. Foxes It addresses the black gay experience with beautiful tenderness and depth.

easy Written by Cyrus Hughes (Literary Speed ​​& Talent Management) – 12 recommendations
Producers: B19 Media
Genre: Series type: Drama/Comedy
Summary: Based on real life experiences, easy It is a black comedy set in the world of sex addiction, in which a woman tries, fails, and tries again to connect in a world where everything and everyone feels disposable. When things go too far, how do you get down?

Your knife is my back, my gun, your head Written by Anita Vettese (Haworth Agency) – 12 recommendations
Producers: BBC Drama Studios
Form: TV Genre: Revenge Thriller
Summary: How far can a woman go to protect her child? Fiona embarks on an arduous journey of revenge after school principal Marissa expels her son for getting too close to her daughter. This decision is disastrous and now Fiona is coming for Marissa’s daughter.