A couple of years ago there was a lot of buzz around Rodham, a screenplay about—who else?—Hillary Rodham Clinton. The script appeared on the 2012 Black List. The End Of The Tour’s James Ponsoldt became attached to direct. Speculation as to which star would play Clinton ran rampant. Now with Clinton set to accept the Democratic nomination for president later this week in Philadelphia, the movie’s writer is reflecting on the Clinton with whom he became obsessed. In the piece for Politico Magazine Young Il Kim explains how he was struggling and searching for an idea when he homed in on Clinton thanks to that iconic photo of the Situation Room during the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

But Kim found that he wasn’t as interested in the latter-day Clinton as he was in the Clinton of the early 1970s. Then she was the woman ...