Basic (2003)
Rashomon-style investigation of a Panama training accident. Basic is John McTiernan's 2003 American military thriller.
Writer: James Vanderbilt
James Vanderbilt wrote Zodiac, which is the outstanding credit: a two-and-a-half hour investigation film that declines to solve its case because the historical record does not.
He also wrote The Amazing Spider-Man, White House Down and Independence Day: Resurgence, and produced extensively.
Zodiac’s script is built from Robert Graysmith’s books and an enormous amount of primary research, and its refusal of a conclusion is what separates it from every other serial killer film of the period.
