And then one night, Stan's phone rings.

I pick it up, and I hear, "Stan Brooks?" "Yes." "Please hold for Arnold Schwarzenegger." And now, seriously, I can see my heart beating.

And he goes, "Hello." I go, "Uh, Arnold." "Are you the guy with this Christmas script?" I said, "Yes." He says, "It's fantastic.

I'd love to direct." I go, "Okay." He goes, "But I have to shoot in Los Angeles, and I have to do it in these days.

And," and he goes, "And I have some notes on the script." I go, "Okay." "Can you be here in an hour?" And I go, "Uh, no." He goes, "Can you be here on Wednesday?" I go, "Yes, I can be there on Wednesday." [laughs]

He goes over for a meeting at Arnold's offices in Santa Monica.

So now I'm going to this meeting on Wednesday, and you walk in and there's this giant lobby, and, and the first thing you see is the exoskeleton, the, the metal thing with the red eyes from Terminator.

So there's no doubt...