• Upon the release of 'Romancing the Stone' . . .

    From Dr. Jai Maharaj@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 5 00:43:35 2017
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, rec.arts.movies.past-films XPost: misc.writing.screenplays.jai-maharaj, soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.india

    Excerpt:

    [...]
    Upon the release of Romancing the Stone, comparisons to
    Raiders of the Lost Ark were inevitable; Time magazine
    called the film "a distaff Raiders rip-off".[7] The
    screenplay for Romancing had actually been written five
    years earlier by a Malibu waitress named Diane Thomas in
    what would end up being her only screenplay. She died in
    a car crash shortly after the film's release.[8]
    [...]

    Continues at:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancing_the_Stone#Production_and_release

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