…Allen got an early peek at the spec script for “The Book of Eli,” not long after Silver and Warners optioned it. “Our agent called me and said, ‘You gotta read this.’ Around Page 42, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.”

The next day he phoned Albert in Prague. “I read it and called Allen and said, ‘I don’t know, man,’ ” Albert recalls. “I heard the wind go out of him — whoosh. He told me to just go to sleep, think about it, and call him the next day. I had an eight-hour dream about the movie. I woke up and called Allen: ‘I get it, man. I’m in.’ ”

Albert & Allen Hughes