"Romancing the Stone" Remake in the Works

Enough with the remakes! Why must we have one remake after another?! Not that I have an opinion on it or anything!

Now we’ve got “Romancing the Stone” coming back via Fox. The 1984 adventure movie helped launch Robert Zemeckis as a director, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito as film stars, and Kathleen Turner as a romantic lead.

I loved the original, and now I want to go back and watch it again. Written by Diane Thomas, it told the story of a repressed romance novelist who travels to Colombia to find her missing sister, only to meet up with an American soldier of fortune. The two embark on a cross-country adventure involving a map, a jewel and, of course, people chasing them.

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It’s a bittersweet story for Thomas, who wrote the script while working as a waitress in Malibu, but died in a car crash a year after the film’s release.

No producers are attached to the remake, but Daniel McDermott has been tapped to write the screenplay. He most recently co-wrote the DreamWorks thriller “Eagle Eye.” He’s also developing an adventure movie for Tom Cruise titled “Adventurer’s Club” and working on a remake of “Soylent Green” for Warner Bros. Yes, another remake!

Image: Romancing the Stone, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 1984