Haze's craziest sequence demanded chaos on set [Exclusive]

"Instead of looking at the storyboards, I was making it up as I went along," Darabont says of the sequence. He adds: "He was a runaway horse, but we held on and boxed the scene. And I was very, very proud of that." The filmmaker says filming was "a week of this madness", but even then it was apparently a tighter turnaround than usual, as the film's budget demands. As he recounts in /Film, the director had a choice between making the film with a bigger budget but changing its dark ending, or working at breakneck speed with a small budget but keeping its story intact. Darabont chose the latter option, which meant he ended up with scenes like this where the storyboards became an afterthought.

Child star Gamble, who played David Drayton's (Thomas Jane) doomed son Billy, also recalls the chaos of the late-night shoot, including a memorable bump on his head.

"There's this dinosaur-like thing coming towards me, and then Tom's character pulls me aside at the last second, and then he's swept away by Ollie," Gamble recalled , referencing Jane and Toby Jones' character, Ollie Weeks. "Well, when Tom picked me up, he tripped over the edge of a driveway and me and him fell," he revealed. The actor says he "bumped into sections of the driveway" and banged his head on the floor - not hard enough to make him cry, he insists, but still enough to have bruises.