nominated writing team Willard Huyck (qv) and  Gloria Katz (qv) began a script that would pass through the hands  of writers David Koepp (qv) and Steven Zaillian (qv), before  being ultimately refined by Koepp and Robert Towne (qv). Towne  kept revising the script all the way through production after Koepp  left to direct _Trigger Effect, The (1996)_ (qv).