Two Canadians – and one expat – have made one of Hollywood’s hottest lists, The Black List.

Morgan, by Seth W. Owen, Echo by Chris MacBride and In Real Time by expat Chai Hecht (born in Toronto, lives in L.A.) have made the 2014 edition of the list, which profiles the “most liked” unproduced scripts in its database, as selected by over 250 film executives. The projects must have not started principal photography in the calendar year to be eligible. Each exec selects up to 10 of their favourite scripts, the results of which are compiled into the annual list.

Owen’s Morgan, about “a corporate risk management consultant is summoned to a remote research lab to determine whether or not to terminate an at-risk artificial being” has 20th Century Fox on board as a financier and Scott Free Entertainment attached as a producer. Montreal-based Owen is repped in the U.S. by WME and is best known for his 2009 debut film Peepers.

Echo, by Macbride, is described as “a CIA drone coordinator battles his own psychological health while trying to decipher whether his wife has been replaced.” 2oth Century Fox is also on board as a financier for this project. MacBride is the writer/director behind 2013’s The Conspiracy, a mockumentary starring Aaron Poole and James Gilbert. MacBride is repped by ICM.

Finally, Hecht’s In Real Time follows “a young man convinced that his mentally unstable sister needs to relive her high school prom from ten years prior to overcome her depression goes to great lengths to recreate that event.” Producing is Pacific Island Films; no financier is attached. Hecht is repped by CAA.

View the full Black List here.

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