Inception articulate some of the things that have been swirling around his head for the last eight years." DiCaprio and Nolan spent months talking about the screenplay. Nolan took a long time re-writing the script in order "to make sure that the emotional journey of his character was the driving force of the movie." On February 11, 2009, it was announced that Warner Bros. purchased "Inception", a spec script written by Nolan. Principal photography began in Tokyo on June 19, 2009, with the scene where Saito first hires Cobb during a helicopter flight over the city. The production moved to the
Randall "Tex" Cobb his boxing career by casting Cobb as a boxer who fights the title character, Billy Flynn; and "Diggstown", in which he plays a prison inmate who fights at the behest of a con man. One of his more memorable roles is the menacing biker/bounty hunter Leonard Smalls in the 1987 Coen Brothers film "Raising Arizona". Cobb lives in Philadelphia, and maintained a friendship with "Philadelphia Daily News" columnist Pete Dexter, who frequently commented on boxing. In a notorious 1981 Grays Ferry incident, Cobb came to the defense of Dexter, who during the course of a bar brawl, was severely beaten.