Hi David, this series of posts are great. I'm just wondering, purely curiosity, you mentioned the script changing with directors, choreographers and the edit in post. Were you involved with the script at this stage or at what point does it go out of your hands and your baby sinks or swims on its own? Also I loved where you couldn't get into your own film on opening night, that has to be a story ending in itself. The wonderful humility of "figured it was midnight on a Thursday…I was just going to sneak it, and it was sold out. I go, this is really cool…this may actually do well. Then when it got to 40 on opening weekend, it was like oh my God, this is ridiculous."

Thanks! Yeah Scott asks great questions. Typically once you sell a script, it's out of your hands. Someone else (the studio) owns it and they can do with it what they want. Most likely you'll be contracted to do a second draft based on notes from the producers and that could very well be that. However, I was lucky to stay involved pretty much from beginning to end, doing multiple drafts for the director and Denzel. I also wrote stuff during production and additional scenes for after we finished filming.

That's cool you were so involved David, ta for response.

[…] Part 4: “Obviously, for the sake of the read, you want the action to jump off the page as much as possible, but what’s more important than the actual choreography is to come up a fresh way figuring out how the characters got into the action scene in the first place and how they get out of it.” […]