I heard Jeff Daniels on a podcast talking about how you do not change one word of Sorkin's dialogue (I guess when he's the director as well as the writer) because he doesn't allow it. He said, and I'm paraphrasing, the only time Sorkin allows an actor to do that is basically once they've been working with him so long their changes are basically the way Sorkin writes anyway.

Of course, Jack is Jack, so . . . what are you gonna do?

The poem and song were a translation of a Belgian song Le Moribund.

If you'd ave said The Keep, I'd have agreed with you, but Black Hat was top notch.

And it's got Dennis Farina who's just great.

>died tragically in a car accident before she could have a crack at the sequel.

That wasn't it. She was busy writing Always and an early draft of Indiana Jones 3 while they were making Jewel, so I guess they must have just decided to give it to somebody else.

Not sure why I've been downvoted, but here you go:

["Thomas's death came six weeks before the sequel to Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, was released."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Thomas#Other_work_(including_Always_and_an_original_draft_for_the_third_Indiana_Jones_movie)

In other words, she was alive while they were making it, so they certainly had the screenplay long before her passing.

Good time to watch Clancy Brown talking about getting cast.