A woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion
picture.
Reenie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the
Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Reenie is an idealist who
believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an
unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a
feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to
secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one
agrees with her until two brash young studio writers, Julius and Philip
Epstein, decide to back Reenie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to
the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca. Reenie uses her charms
on executive producer Hal Wallis until he finally agrees to her plan,
but the problems seem insurmountable from the start, and Reenie's gamble
threatens to become a career killer for not only Reenie but also her
confederates, the Epsteins. Set against the backdrop of Pearl harbor and
the first months of World War II, Season of the Gods careens across the
Warner Bros. lot, from the Writers Building to the dressing rooms and
soundstages to tell the spellbinding and unlikely story of Hollywood's
greatest masterpiece through the eyes of all who made it happen.
