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
Dominick Dunne: After the Party and he became our first star writer and really, the defining voice of the magazine," says Tina Brown. The film ends with Dunne focusing on his last murder trial for "Vanity Fair"—that of music producer Phil Spector. He was also, at the time, hosting his own successful television show, "Dominick Dunne Presents: Power, Privilege and Justice", featured on Tru TV. Dominick Dunne died on August 26, 2009 of bladder cancer, at the age of 83. Tina Brown – Editor ("Vanity Fair", "The Daily Beast") "The film was great in that it caught all his candor and his sense irony about