 After getting the rights to George Jonas (III) (qv)s book  "Vengeance", Steven Spielberg (I) (qv) commissioned three scripts:  one from David Webb Peoples (qv) and Janet Peoples (qv), one  from Charles Randolph (II) (qv), and one from  Eric Roth (I) (qv). Roths script was chosen and subsequently  revised by Tony Kushner (qv).