Skip That Part In The Middle

Here's a trailer for a film about Charles Darwin. He led a life filled with controversy, but I'm not sure how you make a movie of it. So much of what he did was internal, and what wasn't was mostly panistaking research spread out over many years.

He was a conventionally religious naturalist with an upper middle class background who as a young man went on a journey around the world. Afterward, while going over all that he'd seen and logged, he came up with a theory that would change the world. However, he essentially sat on this theory about 20 years, all the while doing further research to back up his argument. If he hadn't found out another scientist had come up with the same theory, he might have held off even longer.

Will the filmmakers skim over this period, or will it be the heart of the movie? It was central in Darwin's development, but as storytelling, it's down time.