It was his second film, and Ive done all his movies since including Flight and Forrest Gump. Turner also won Best Actress from the Los Angeles Film Critics, along with her performance in Ken Russel's Crimes of Passion (1984). Im afraid were going to have to quarantine the company for six weeks. Thats going to take us into August, 125 degrees, were all done. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. I said, Perhaps you can go a bit' Verhoeven mimes nudging someone closer to something not quite safe. He was an actor, known for Romancing the Stone (1984), El infierno de todos tan temido (1981) and Saln Mxico (1996). I worked for a man named Robert Abel, and he had developed a process called Painting with Light. While The Jewel of the Nile grossed almost as much as its predecessor, the film was much less successful critically and effectively killed the franchise. In the end, to Douglas dismay, none of the ladies would go for it, he says, probably because of the nudity. [13], Approximately two weeks before principal photography began, an aircraft carrying Richard Dawking (production designer) and Brian Coates (production manager) crashed during location scouting over the countryside of Morocco, killing all on board. But Zemeckis didnt want to do that. Plot [ edit] Joan Wilder is a successful, but lonely, romance novelist in New York City. The one where EW follows up with the cast. In his office at Carolco, Paul Verhoeven, a shaggy, snaggletoothed, mischievous wolf of a man in a pair of black jeans and a gray button-down shirt, suggests that the combination of himself, Stone, and Douglas was occasionally charged. Romancing the Stone (1984) - Filmsite Michael Douglas' performance in Romancing the Stone made him a Hollywood star. Then explain it to me. He laughs. The Michael Douglas scandal | EW.com - Entertainment Weekly I was not on the accepted list for actors at that time, he says, simply. Romancing the Stone - Wikipedia Ralph and Jack team up to find Joan and the fabled jewel. Romancing the Stone (1984) A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a . A leading lady of 1980s cinema, Kathleen Turner earned comparisons to 1940s femme fatales like . He was her biggest fan.". Last year, she added: "Oh, I was yearning, babe, but he was still married, although they were separated, and so I thought there was hope for me. Film Titles I - R. However, with hindsight, Turner believes she was better off without Douglas. Six months after the events in Romancing the Stone, Joan Wilder's (Kathleen Turner) and Jack Colton's (Michael Douglas) romance has grown stale.