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6. The Script's First Draft Was Written In Just 11 Days - Black Widow
Typically even the first draft of a blockbuster script takes a good while to hash out - even the roughest, most skeletal early screenplay of a big tentpole movie will require a screenwriter committing weeks or even months of their time to produce something they can turn in.
But Black Widow writer Eric Pearson actually got the film's first draft written in just 11 days. He said:
"We got our good bones down meeting with Kevin [Feige] and [co-producer] Brian Chapek and [director] Cate Shortland and talking to Scarlett [Johansson] a lot... She was phoning in and then I was locking it into a document that was just like a blueprint. And once I know what I'm doing, I write fast. That was the first draft, but we did a lot of rewrites."
Some might argue that this explains why the movie's final shooting script was so lacklustre and unambitious, because greatness evidently can't be rushed.