One of the fascinating things about the United States defence establishment is its willingness to fund what may seem like weird and whacky projects such as making ships disappear and training cats to snoop. All of which makes their latest wheeze look eminently sober trainings scientists to be Hollywood scriptwriters.
The Pentagon is coaching a bunch of would be Barton Finks in the hope of producing more scripts that show scientists in a positive way, as opposed to the usual boss eyed evil genius hell bent on destroying the planet. But this is Hollywood, so if this just promises Tom Hanks getting weepy over his lab notebook, we might be better sticking with Dr Strangelove.