In a follow-up to last week’s Romancing the Stone podcast, I was invited back by the Authorized Podcast gang to discuss the sequel The Jewel of the Nile. The film itself was off to a bad start in that the original screenwriter and creator of these characters, Diane Thomas, was not involved. At first she was working on Spielberg’s Always, then an Indiana Jones sequel, before tragically passing away in a car crash. This meant the film was scripted by Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner who would later go on to write one of my favourite Star Trek movies, The Undiscovered Country, but they only had a couple of credits to their name on this one, and from digging into to making of this film it seems there was interference from all sides, so I guess they were hobbled from the beginning. So anyway, this is my long way of saying we weren’t fans of this one. I feel for the novelist Catherine Lanigan who did her best to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Have a listen here…
The Jewel of the Nile on the Authorized Podcast
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Best two elements of Jewel of the Nile was the associated music video by Billy Ocean with the film actors spoofing backing vocals and the awesome cinema poster which I always adored. The film is bleh but watchable (only just). If only it lived up to the expectations created by the visuals of the poster. Best to go watch War of the Roses.
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I loved Alan Silvestri’s soundtrack to Romancing the Stone and in Jewel of the Nile, the love theme was very sweet. There is also ‘African Breeze’ which is a great trumpet lead instrumental written and performed by Hugh Masekela. Yep, the rest was horrid. With the former so many people remember the end title score as wonderful. Spyro did a cover of it. So both did have some great soundtrack parts.
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