A look at the life and career of John Milius, from his childhood and days as a student at USC, to his success as a writer and director on major films like Dirty Harry, Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn.

The filmmakers were two and a half years into the project when Scott Mosier came on board with Matt Perniciero and Kevin Mann as executive producers to provide additional finance.

Then Milius had a stroke and the film shut down for nine months while he started rehab.

[1] According to co director Joey Figueroa: Usually a lot of people will do a big documentary and they don't have their subject fully on board.

Originally Milius was going to be our driving force in this picture and that totally got derailed.