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Budget 25,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 96,800,000 USD
The actors playing the tribesmen Arak, Barak, Karak, Sarak and Tarak were the members of the juggling troupe the Flying Karamazov Brothers.
Three members of the production team were killed in a plane crash whilst scouting locations in Morocco. The film is dedicated to them along with Romancing the Stone screenwriter Diane Thomas, who died in a car accident.
Kathleen Turner tried to quit this production because she hated the script, but Michael Douglas and the studio threatened to sue her, so she relented. As a matter of fact, Turner was right: The movie opened to poor reviews. Turner and Douglas' sparring did not stop them from making yet a third movie together; along with onscreen co-hort Danny Devito: The War of The Roses.
Romancing the Stone (1984), the predecessor of this film, was the only produced screenplay for writer Diane Thomas. She had been working as a waitress in Malibu when producer/star Michael Douglas optioned her script for $250,000, allowing her to quit her job. Sadly, Thomas died in a car accident, while working on a new movie project with Steven Spielberg the following year, about seven weeks before the opening of this film. She was a passenger while her boyfriend was driving a Porsche that Douglas had bought for her as a thank you gift. This film is dedicated "In Memory of" Thomas.
Kathleen Turner resisted making the sequel because of her money squabble over the original, and because she didn't like the script, over which she had negotiated approval. She only signed after Fox filed a $25 million lawsuit against her.
"Joan Wilder: My heart just isn't in it. I mean, romance just doesn't seem real to me anymore. Gloria: Real? You don't write real - you write about people that sail off into the god damn sunset. Joan Wilder: Well, what about the next day, when the sun comes up? Gloria: There is no next day! That's why it's a romance. You've got to stop confusing real life with a romantic novel!"
"Omar: Jack is dead. Joan Wilder: Don't be ridiculous! Jack would never die without telling me. Omar: Nevertheless, he's dead."
