Certainly, the script was so freshly written that Cruise did not have sufficient time to memorize his strains. Pegg needed to maintain up notecards for Cruise to learn throughout the scene. McQuarrie stated they solely had 4 days to shoot that scene and solely a common concept of what was going to enter it. Cruise, nonetheless, was impressed with McQuarrie’s final scene and had nothing however optimistic issues to say. To cite:
“McQ, when he is aware of easy methods to write one thing — like when he feels it like an actor — it’s extremely fascinating. Like, when he feels it like an actor, he wrote the scene, he wrote that in like a day. That complete sequence, that construction simply fell proper into place.”
Cruise does not elucidate on what he signifies that McQuarrie “feels it like an actor,” however we might infer that the director was involved extra with character than with situation; McQuarrie did not brush up the scene with extra motion and pleasure, however a conceptual confrontation with the villain. Cruise needed to inform off the villain whereas trying Benji within the face. It was extra thrilling than any bike chase. He stated:
“And it is so enjoyable as a result of we might been working, we’re underneath loads of stress, we could not determine the tip. We knew this location. We walked round and it was like, ‘Construct a restaurant right here, do that.’ I do not know what is going on to occur. After which I bear in mind [McQuarrie] stated, ‘I do know the scene.’ And [he] pitched it to me like, ‘I simply haven’t got time to put in writing it.’ [He] wrote it that morning […] on his approach to work. […] I learn it and I used to be like, ‘That is superior!'”
By no means let or not it’s stated that screenwriting isn’t an ongoing course of.