[post_page_title]On-set trainer[/post_page_title]
Edward Bunker, the screenwriter for the film, who was also a former convict, recognized Danny as someone who he’d been in the same prison with back in San Quentin.
He remembered that Danny was an accomplished boxer, and he decided to offer Danny a job – to train Eric Roberts, another star in the movie, for his boxing scenes. Danny would make $320 a day as a boxing trainer on set – but the story was far from over.