I read quotes online that were supposed to be from her recent autobiography where she said she wasn't interested in making a sequel to RTS but Michael Douglas said he'd sue her if she didn't do it. Does this mean she signed up for a sequel when she signed up for RTS?
They think we're the demons now - Prue Halliwell ~ All Hell Breaks Loose ~ Charmed
I read her autobiography, and in it she states that she signed up, as you said ,during RTS. She also states that she learned her lesson and has never signed on to do a sequel again. in her contracts ever since, she must have script approval.
Kathleen's reason for not wanting to do the film was the original script, she said that after sitting down with michael and rewriting much of it, she agreed to do TJotN.
"I get so excited when you get angry, it makes me feel so much closer to the reading of the will."
She wanted to back out. And they got the script writer from the original, to fix some of the problems she claimed was with her character. While she claims that she didn't want to do a sequel because of the script. It was also due to the fact that she wanted to instead star in the Money Pitt, which she thought was going to be the bigger hit at the box office.
It was also reported that Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny Devito had no problems about making a third film. Just as long as they got the script right. But it was the studios that said no to the idea and instead wanted to make Die Hard with Bruce Willis.
Well the Jewel script by the two men sucked. They should have just waited for the original creator of the Joan Wilder character, Diane Thomas to be available. Then maybe she wouldn't have died in the Porshe accident and the series would have continued.
shareDidn't the creator of the original die shortly after the first film? Or was the Porsche an attempt to lure her into doing the second film, and then she died in the car accident?
shareThe orignal script writer Diane Thomas from the first film was brought back to fix the script. Kathleen Turner didn't like what the script had done with her character, so Michael Douglas got Thomas to come back and do some rewrite work. Douglas was so grateful with what Thomas did, that he bought her a Porsche. Particularity considering Turner was threatening to quit the film. Thomas drunk boyfriend who was driving the car, crashed it killing Thomas. A devastated Douglas started a writing scholarship in the name of Thomas after the accident.
shareJust come back from "An Evening with Michael Douglas" where Michael took the stage in London to discuss his films. Interestingly he explained Kathleen Turner had been reluctant to return for the sequel ("Jewel of the Nile") and he had to take litigation against her! So this souring in their relationship didn't help the making of the sequel and he admitted it might be partly why the sequel didn't quite capture the magic of the first film. Obviously they patched things up to make "War of the Roses" several years later.
shareAnd I can see why she didn't want to...
But, I'm glad she did in the end. She looked so damn good!
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-jewel-of-nile-timeline-and-while-im.html
Another recollection of 'Jewel of the Nile' from Kathleen Turner in today's NYMagazine:share
Were you surprised or hurt at the way Michael leaned on you to do that movie?
That was a bad blowup. I had signed a contract to do a sequel [to Romancing the Stone] but the script for it [The Jewel of the Nile] was terrible. What had happened was that Romancing was so successful that Diane [Thomas], who wrote the original script, evidently asked Michael for what he felt was a ridiculous sum to work on the sequel. So instead, he went with these two guys and what they came up with was terrible, formulaic, sentimental. Anyway, I said no. Then I found out I was being sued for $25 million [for breach out contract]. My position was that, yes, I signed up for a sequel but I didn’t sign up to compromise the quality of my work. Eventually Michael and I talked.
How’d that go?
He said, “What would it take for you to do this film?” I wanted Diane back, or at least to give input. And Michael did go to her for some alterations. But ultimately I read the script on a plane to Morocco, where the film was shooting, and I was furious. It didn’t have what Michael said it’d have. When I got to the hotel in Fez, Michael and I sat down on the floor with three versions of the script. We were trading pages to get a script that was acceptable to both of us. It was, “I’ll do this if you’ll do that.” It was frustrating. But I do have to say, when I got sick Danny and Michael called and said, “If you need anything kid…” So they’re true friends.
[Don't know if the '2 guys' were you and Isaacs or Rosenthal & Konner, but interesting anyway.]