Oren Moverman has completed a script for a Brian Wilson biopic, and he’s proud to report is “pretty much done.” “Unlike the Kurt Cobain thing,” he said, referencing another biopic project that fell apart, ”there is a general feeling that an unconventional storytelling approach is the way to go.”

Moverman hopes to place the audience inside the Beach Boy’s head, “to understand how do you get into that kind of genius mind that has all this music, but also all this tragedy, so much pain, so many scars.” Writing the Bob Dylan story in “I’m Not There” was easier, he said, “because it was the idea of a shape shifter, someone who wouldn’t tell you who he was, because he’s been so many people in so many different periods.” With Wilson, it’s more complicated, Moverman said, because of the subject’s combination of musical genius and mental illness. “There’s all these awful things, and yet what you want to do is celebrate the creative mind and kind of understand it,” he said. “He’s a genius on the level of some of the greatest musical geniuses ever.”