Often the rights to a true-life story are based on an article or book. This leads to the real-life people behind the story, if they are still alive, often not being involved in the storytelling.

True stories of those who have served in the military have been shared with audiences through film. "American Sniper," "Lone Survivor" and "Hacksaw Ridge" are a few examples.

There’s a real move in Hollywood studios to cut out as much human labor as possible through the use of A.I. tools. If you can’t even read the credits — will you know?

Mr. Reed is more real than you think. "There have been people in my life who were useful to me, people who were very, very clever – brilliant, really, and in some ways very plausible and quite ...