So my final draft is beat by beat almost exactly what the movie is, most of the dialog was Joss and that s fine because he s a great writer. That s the fun of it. Coming up with a good bit of action is very similar to coming up with a joke. A lot of it is inspiration, that you have a slighty different way of looking at the world. If you analyze comedy too much, it dies.
Action is similar.
A lot of it is also structural work. You start building a house of cards and it can be a problem later where you say, Fuck. We ve backed ourselves into a corner that we can t get out of. Well first of all, I wanted a very active woman in the part. I love active, capable women who aren t victims in action movies.