1.   Hoffman is notorious for seeking script revisions.

2.   How they got to this point is a story of hopes and doubts and anxieties -- and conferences, script revisions and casting decisions.

3.   Their journey was marked by detailed research, constant script revisions and vain efforts to snare actors like Gene Hackman to play Johnson and Ed Harris to play McNamara.

4.   Then he set to work on a script revision.