The story has been dramatised for the screen before, most recently as the 2021 documentary "The Capote Tapes", and in 2005's "Capote", with the Oscar-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role.

Hence those two London buses in the Noughties. Capote (2005) won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar, unjustly occluding Toby Jones in Infamous (2006). Tom Hollander’s turn in Feud: Capote vs the ...