The movie gods are capricious. Because it may take years, if not decades, between when a script is finished, then picked up for development, then financed for production, then made, and then finally distributed, a writer may find that her brilliant script that truly captured the zeitgeist when it was written is entirely out of date and irrelevant by the time it finally appears as a film. Alternatively, a writer might be lucky to discover that the script they wrote years ago is now even more resonant. James Vanderbilt is one such lucky writer. In 2011 he came across an...