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Crowe continued: “It was my continued conversations with Ridley that gave me faith, he said to me at one point in time, ‘Mate, we’re not committing anything to camera you don’t believe in 100 percent.’ So, when we actually started that film, we had 21 pages of script that we agreed on. A script is usually between 103-110 pages or something like that, so we had a long way to go, and we basically used up those pages in the first section of the movie. [Laughs] So, by the time we got to our second location, which was Morocco, we were sort of catching up.”
During production, the unfinished script was complained about for its writing quality by several members of the cast, forcing many rewrites. What made things more complicated was Oliver Reed suffering a fatal heart attack before the production wrapped.
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