The 2025 Black List has been revealed with scripts tackling Yoko Ono, Kobe Bryant’s NBA draft, and an AI David Bowie among the honorees.

The annual list of the town’s best-unproduced feature screenplays features 74 scripts from writers, known and unknown, repped and unrepped. The list, voted on by a group of 500 film executives, has previously featured future commercial hits and critical darlings like Promising Young Woman and Spotlight .

At the top of this year’s list is the erotic thriller Best Seller from writer Matisse Haddad about a struggling writer, married to a famous novelist husband, who writes a viral tell-all that ignites a battle between the two. Elsewhere on the list is a disaster movie set around a Waffle House ( The Waffle House Index by Andrew Nunnelly), a supern

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