Lots of political ink on Black List

December 08, 2007 Political films may be tanking at the boxoffice, but execs continue to salivate over the genre, according to a ranking of hot scripts making the rounds at Hollywood agencies. Danny Strong's HBO Films election drama "Recount" came in at No. 1, and Beau Willimon's political thriller about a politician's communication director "Farragut North," which has been plucked by Warner Bros., finished at No. 2. The sixth-most-popular script was the most topical of all; occupying the slot was Steve Knight's "Curveball," a Focus Features project about false intelligence information in Iraq.

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