 Under pressure from the studio, in an effort to cut two million  dollars out of the budget, director Michael Schultz and screenwriter  Louis Venosta sat up in a hotel room all night rewriting the script.  When Venosta fell asleep on the hotel bed, Schultz pressed a button  on the computer which deleted forty pages of the script. When  Venosta awoke that morning, the pair spent the day recreating that  material.