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
Ron Cobb most notably in "" (1994) and "The Space Bar" (1997), in which he designed all the characters. Cobb also co-wrote with his wife, Robin Love, one of the (1985–1987) "Twilight Zone" episodes. Among the most famous film props signed by Cobb are two of the swords he designed for the 1982 film "Conan the Barbarian" (the "Father's Sword" and the "Atlantean Sword"). Cobb's original drawings of the swords are nowadays used, in cinema merchandising, to mass-produce and sell replicas. Ron Cobb Ron Cobb (born 1937) is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director. By the age of