After MI-3 was delayed Cruise's schedule opened up and the movie was greenlit. After some months David Koepp was hired and rewrote me. I had no more steps in my contract and there wasn't much talk about paying me to do more work. We handed the script in to Paramount and the previous regime (NO ONE remains) did not greenlight the movie. The least I can do is give a little love.Ī little history: I wrote the first three drafts of WOTW for Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise in late '02 and early '03. These people stayed late on a Friday night to ask me questions. I lean forward with my microphone and she puts her hand in front of my chest like she's a parent trying to keep her kid's head from hitting the windshield. I did a Q&A at the WGA theater after a WOTW screening a few weeks back and the moderator prepped me ahead of time by saying: "Whatever you do, don't talk about the arbitration." The Q&A starts and maybe the second question out of the box is: "Tell us about the arbitration". The WOTW question relates to the arbitration and of course that's a sticky little fucking wicket. After that I may have to start dipping into my "back when I was rewriting Chain Reaction for Keanu" stories. I'm gonna have to stretch this stuff out because these are my red meat. Well the blog's been open for twelve hours and so far there's two requests for Black Dahlia and one request for War of the Worlds.
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