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I was probably a little younger and more immature than I am today, and I was raging on at Vince, probably dropping a few F-Bombs at him.

Alright, I’m out of here, and I’m going to go do this TV show.’ So I called Vince, and I was like, ‘What the hell? You can’t run out on us!’ I was at a Laker game, and I was talking kind of loud, and I was a bit intense. But when he finished the script he was like, ‘OK. Vince finished the script, and I thought he was going to stay on and keep writing. It was something about a chemistry teacher who gets cancer, and I was like, ‘Whatever, dude. I didn’t realize this was probably rewrite 10, and I had heard that Vince had this TV show he wanted to go and do, and I was like, ‘Whatever. Vince was going to go do another rewrite on the script.

I came in and I didn’t really understand the history. I say this with respect, but Will will do 10-12 hour meetings and by the time I got on, Vince had been heavily into the process with Will and his team. So I came on, and Will Smith is a perfectionist, and he will just drive writers into the ground. And it was really this kind of dark, twisted script. Hancock was originally a script called Tonight He Comes, about a superhero alcoholic who could not make love because if he climaxed, he would kill a woman with the power of his climax. You can either listen to Berg's tale by clicking here or read the transcript below.

A writer, who as you all know, went on to create one of the greatest television series ever, Breaking Bad. During their discussion, Berg shared a story involving a dispute with, a then unknown, Vince Gilligan. Report, and at around the 30-minute mark discusses his superhero film, Hancock, which starred Will Smith ("After Earth"), Charlize Theron ("Snow White and the Huntsman") and Jason Bateman ("Valerie/Valerie's Family/The Hogan Family"). Director Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") was recently a guest on Bill Simmons' podcast, B.S.