But scribes Andrew Knight (who mostly works in television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked
as a television
writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with
authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.