But US TV is a child of Hollywood, where it's standard for a script to go through numerous hands.
Yet despite a seemingly simple fixture against lowly QPR, it took a last gasp goal from Sergio Aguero for the script to go to plan.
Once again the entire film is improvised, with Coogan describing how "Michael came to us with a framework of where he wanted the script to go and then we just talk.
"[Rogers] was not terse to the point of being dismissive, but had very clear ideas of how he wanted a script to go," says Hudis, who turned out his screenplays at a relentless pace – he calculates that he took only a week and a half to finish Carry On Nurse.
His last script to go before the cameras was Children of Glory, in 2006, a Hungarian-language tale of the country's 1956 uprising against the Soviets and the symbolic water polo match the nations played out at the Olympics in the same year.
The second one, called "Flip a coin," is pretty funny, with Foxx asking Siri to flip a coin as he struggles to choose which script to go with.
Hi Dustin, I have written a script to go and collect the picture, cell phone number, birthday, hometown, and year of everyone at Princeton.
With "Marilyn Forever," he said, librettist Bowering had no problem revising her book and radio script to go with the musical flow and propel the drama.
