Did you know that Cartagena was the setting for the 80's film hit Romancing the Stone? Well...it was. You'll recall that there was a sequel called Jewel of the Nile and then the franchise lay fallow for years as it's stars, the once hot Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, went on to age miserably. He, looking more and more like a Galapagos tortoise, lucked into a marriage with Catherine Zeta Jones and she gets the odd gig now and again but appears to have had a few too many whiskey milkshakes (if you know what I mean).
Anyways, there I was in Colombia when who should I run into on a trip out to one of the islands but a member of the crew that is back in Cartagena to film the 3rd installment. We had a couple of cervezas and it wasn't long before he was dishin' the dirt....Hollywood style! Apparently this will not be the swashbuckling, Indiana Jones type adventure that we're used to or that they'd hoped it to be. Mr. Douglas travels with his own gerontologist and the haggard Ms. Turner needed to have an extra large trailer flown in to suit her new found girth and her voracious appetites. Respective agents promised the film's producer that the actors would be in top shape, contracts were mailed back and forth and 4 rewrites later there appears to be a workable script, albeit one that takes into account the co-stars pasty bloatedness.
My buddy the key grip sent along this pre-release poster. Stay away from this movie....consider your
selves warned.
selves warned.
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