At the end of a day’s work, between the dust and the (sunscreen), we were covered in half-baked clay. The dust is filthy, it’s red and it gets absolutely everywhere. What was the most difficult part of that shoot? THR: Most of the production was in Morocco. I couldn’t tell you the number of times I dropped him in the revolving knives. I ran him into traps out of which he never emerged. It’s a very athletic game that depends on the hero evading all sorts of traps like Indiana Jones. Newell: I was completely hopeless at the game. We took it out and wrote another way of doing it. It was a huge amount of money to spend on what was in the end about a page and a half of script. It was very entertaining but budgeted at $14 million. Newell: There was a chase sequence through a valley - high in the desert mountains full of tombs - where all sorts of stuff happens, like people falling down and stone-age machinery going wrong. Was there anything you wanted to do but couldn’t? THR: Budgets are being tightened all over town. I was trying to make something fabulous, in which everything is “more.” The battles are more, the personal conflicts are more, the magic is more than you would imagine. What are you saying about yourself if you say “no”? No matter how his movies are treated or criticized, what they absolutely are is great big entertainments. You’d be mad not to say yes (to doing one). But Jerry’s alive and kicking and making movies as fast as he can crank them out. Most of the guys that make genres important, like John Ford, are dead. Mike Newell: It’s fantastic to be able to make a movie of that particular genre when the guy’s still here.
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