 Lucas sent Huyck and Katz a 500 @-@ page transcript of their taped conversations to help them with the script . The first draft was written in six weeks , in early @-@ August 1982 . " Steve was coming off an enormously successful movie and George didn 't want to lose him , " said Katz . " He desperately wanted him to direct ( Temple of Doom ) . We were under a lot of pressure to do it really , really fast so we could hold on to Steve . " 
