The script is full of reversals and abrupt dislocations and, halfway through, the movie springs a huge, jaw-dropping surprise.

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Even after years of optimization and automation, introducing detailed characters interacting with a fully voiced script in full 3D hugely increases the necessary complexity of models and their interactions in the world.

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Then destiny, in the form of smart producers, put him together with Simon Beaufoy's screenplay -- the writer's best-known script to that point had been "The Full Monty" -- and the result will make movie history.

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It is the first theatre script for the writer, who was an Oscar nominee for The Full Monty and later a winner with Slumdog Millionaire.

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