Enligt den här intervjun med Robert Towne Han hade ett ganska bra samarbete med Tom Cruise (de arbetade redan före, på den första Uppgift omöjligt och Torden dagar ).
När det gäller manuset sa han:
... by the time I got involved, there were certain action pieces around
which the story had to be written, or, at the very least, the story
couldn’t interfere with the action pieces ...
... [John Woo's] action sequences are carefully choreographed. They were there. And the story, at the point that I came along, was not there to support the action.
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It took three drafts. The first draft was creaky because trying to make the action look as if it flows from character is very hard. It didn’t work the first time, and it didn’t work the second time.
But for some reason the third draft, I remember getting about twenty-five to thirty pages into it and thinking, “Well, I don’t know where we’re going but I know that, at least from my point of view, this is going to work.” And we all felt that this draft worked.
It had a level of—I really don’t want to say reality— but it seemed organic, it started happening. And then suddenly it was fun, and I felt good about it.
Han och Tom Cruise talade faktiskt om idéer för en uppföljare när de gjorde den första Mission Impossible tillsammans. Klicka på länken ovan och den här , för mer info.