He and Drew say on the commentary they wrote it over a week(end) or so in a hotel, yeah. But they note that they had the layout beforehand. So it wasn't, like, from scratch. Then they did polish afterwards. It sounds like it was like a Buffy ep. They had the gist of the story going in, they just had to write the dialogue and put it together. They also note CWDP was also written over a weekend and thus say that sometimes doing things under the gun sometimes yields great results because there's no time for second guessing and overthinking.
Both say they were between jobs when they did it, so definitely pre-Dollhouse. It's up in the air whether or not Joss ever considered the comics a job and Goddard just finished Cloverfield mid-07. It filmed in '09. They mention in the commentary it took awhile to be bought and produced. I think June to pre-strike 2007 is the best bet. I have no proof, but I'm certain Joss's beef with Captivity (July 07) at least played a part in his writing it.
It would be a whole lot easier if they put dates on the drafts of their scripts.
He did write the In Your Eyes movie. He may have written others that never sold. Get hold of scripts and script rumors is much harder now after the crackdown.
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He and Drew say on the commentary they wrote it over a week(end) or so in a hotel, yeah. But they note that they had the layout beforehand. So it wasn't, like, from scratch. Then they did polish afterwards. It sounds like it was like a Buffy ep. They had the gist of the story going in, they just had to write the dialogue and put it together. They also note CWDP was also written over a weekend and thus say that sometimes doing things under the gun sometimes yields great results because there's no time for second guessing and overthinking.
Both say they were between jobs when they did it, so definitely pre-Dollhouse. It's up in the air whether or not Joss ever considered the comics a job and Goddard just finished Cloverfield mid-07. It filmed in '09. They mention in the commentary it took awhile to be bought and produced. I think June to pre-strike 2007 is the best bet. I have no proof, but I'm certain Joss's beef with Captivity (July 07) at least played a part in his writing it.
It would be a whole lot easier if they put dates on the drafts of their scripts.
He did write the In Your Eyes movie. He may have written others that never sold. Get hold of scripts and script rumors is much harder now after the crackdown.