ocr: Eventually, the writers came up with an outline for a - movie script, which Brooks approved. They then carved up the outline into seven chunks, with Jean, Scully, Mirkin, Reiss, Meyer, Swartzwelder and Vitti working separately, writing about 25 pages each. They reunited a month later and pieced together the seven "chapters, producing a very rough first draft. Over two years of rewrites ensued, encompassing at least one hundred script drafts. It was a painstaking and grueling process. "Even though the movie is three times the length of the TV show, it was hundreds of times harder to write,' say ...
