Michael Straczynski Wrote The Ninja Assassin Script In 53 Hours

Michael Straczynski, writer of Clint Eastwood’s Changeling staring Angelina Jolie, recently spoke to AMC about how he came to write the script for Ninja Assassin for the Wachowski Brothers.

Q: You seem insanely busy.

A: You don’t know the half of it. About a month and a half ago I got a call from the Wachowski Brothers. I met with them and they had a draft for this movie called Ninja Assassin, which wasn’t at all where they wanted it to be. And they said, “We need a whole new script, and we go to camera in six weeks.” So I went home and put on a pot of coffee, and I wrote essentially a whole new script in 53 hours. When a friend calls you and says they’re in trouble, you do what you have to.

Yikes!

You can see some recent behind the scenes footage of Ninja Assassin by clicking here.