Tickle-Me-Elmo, Nazi Hunting Audrey Hepburn and Young Anthony Bourdain Scripts Top 2024 Black List

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A slasher film set at Camp David where a young George W. Bush is hunted by a masked killer.

A group of friends stuck overnight in an IKEA, unwittingly at the center of two rival crime syndicates. Audrey Hepburn hunting Nazis on her days off from filming “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” These are some of the magical loglines from this year’s annual Black List, a ranking of the most liked scripts in Hollywood that have not yet been made into films.

Compiled annually by a group led by Franklin Leonard, a recipient of Gotham tribute award this year, Variety waits with childlike anticipation each year to see which scripts film executives have really been buzzing over — but haven’t had the budget or the chutzpah to put into production just yet.

The Black List has yielded some major awards contenders and iconic films, including “Black Swan,” “Argo” and “The King’s Speech.” The ranking is based on the amount of times a script is mentioned by the Black List’s sample pool, made up of 500 film industry pros.