It turns out that two of the "hottest" movie scripts of 2010 aren't about zombies or vampires at all

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they're about Fox News contributor Karl Rove and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch.

This year, topping The Black List -- an “annual list of Hollywood's most liked unproduced screenplays” compiled from suggestions of hundreds of film executives -- is “College Republicans” by Wes Jones. The script, described as "[b]ased on true events," tracks "[a]spiring politician Karl Rove" as he “runs a dirty campaign for national College Republican Chairman under the guidance of Lee Atwater, his campaign manager.”

Also on the list is “Murdoch” by Oscar-nominated “In the Loop” screenwriter Jesse Armstrong, which tells the story of Murdoch “tr[ying] to convince his elder children to alter the family trust so that his two youngest children by his newest wife will have voting rights in the company.”

Though copies of all 76 screenplays on the list were reportedly leaked online yesterday, they have since been taken down. According to The Hollywood Reporter, lawyers at News Corp.-owned Twentieth Century Fox prepared a cease-and-desist letter to send to a site posting copyrighted scripts.

While scripts on The Black List are described as “unproduced,” many are owned by studios and in various stages of development. Indeed, THR reported that “at least six” on the list are “in development at Fox or subsidiary Fox Searchlight” -- the Rove and Murdoch projects, however, are not among them.