 Werner Herzog (qv) claims to have written the screenplay in two  and a half days. He wrote a good portion of it while traveling with  his soccer team, during games and on bus rides. Following one game,  the team was very drunk, and the player seated behind  Werner Herzog (qv) vomited on his typewriter, ruining many pages  of the script. Werner Herzog (qv) was unable to salvage the pages,  and tossed them out the window. He was also unable to recall what  hed written on them.