Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with September 5, Paramount’s gripping period thriller directed by Tim Fehlbaum, and written by Fehlbaum, Moritz Binder and co-writer Alex David.

Set amid the events of the 1972 Munich Olympics, the film follows what happens when ABC, which was covering the games for U.S. audiences, was on air when news came down that members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian militant group Black September. The script keeps the Pov of the ABC control room as events unfold, as producers and reporters and scramble to cover the fast-moving story with global implications — and sensitivities of the highest order — in real time, being the only TV network with live cameras filming the hostages’ location in the Olympic Village.

The writers used first-hand accounts including of Geoffrey Mason, the ABC Sports...