{"id":462919,"date":"2025-12-21T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462919\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T20:51:12","slug":"read-screenplay-by-james-vanderbilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462919\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Screenplay By James Vanderbilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDeadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay<\/a> series spotlighting the year\u2019s most talked about scripts continues with Nuremberg<\/a>, writer-director James Vanderbilt<\/a>\u2018s edge-of-the-seat courtroom drama that centers on the real-life work at the end of World War II to bring the Nazi regime to justice.<\/p>\n

\n\tVanderbilt adapted the screenplay from Jack El-Hai\u2019s nonfiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, which spotlighted the work done by Army psychiatrist Lt. Col. Kelley (played by Oscar winner Rami Malek<\/a>), who was tasked with evaluating Nazi officials \u2014 including the powerful Hermann G\u00f6ring (fellow Oscar winner Russell Crowe<\/a>), the highest-ranking Nazi left after Hitler\u2019s death at war\u2019s end \u2014 over their mental fitness to participate in what would become known as the Nuremberg trials.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic, which also stars Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Richard E. Grant, Colin Hanks, Mark O\u2019Brien and John Slattery, made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and hit theaters in early October via Sony Pictures Classics<\/a>. It has grossed $23.4 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tVanderbilt said he became obsessed with cracking the story for younger audiences as the actual events slipped into history. While El-Hai\u2019s book centered on Kelley, he also wanted to also focus on the creation of the unprecedented tribunal \u2014 in this case made up of Allied powers the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and the UK, led by U.S. Supreme Court Judge Robert H. Jackson (Shannon) \u2014 and what would become the legal foundation for the international court system.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama then becomes two-fold: the courtroom drama as the first international war tribunal was launched from scratch, and two-hander interviews between G\u00f6ring and Kelley, as the latter sought to dissect essentially what made men evil (there is no easy answer to that here; Kelley\u2019s findings that G\u00f6ring and others in custody were not psychopaths or monsters but rather shockingly normal eventually got him ousted, a whole other part of the story).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvil isn\u2019t always going to put on a scary uniform,\u201d Vanderbilt says. \u201cIt\u2019s not always going to announce itself. It can be insidious. It can be \u2013 as G\u00f6ring was \u2013 the nicest guy at the dinner party. That\u2019s a much scarier thought than good guys versus bad guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead the screenplay below:<\/p>\n

\tMore from this Story Arc<\/p>\n

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