Killer Script
James Vanderbilt goes back in time for David Fincher's Zodiac
By James L. Menzies
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/killer_script_2864/
Selling a spec script is no easy task. Selling a spec script about a real-life serial killer who was never caught is slightly harder. So how did writer James Vanderbilt manage to do just that with Zodiac? By writing a cohesive, suspenseful and surprisingly humorous screenplay about one of the most fascinating manhunts in U.S history. (It didn't hurt to have David Fincher attached to direct.)