sentences:  The film was part of a five picture slate from Thorn EMI in 1985, others including "A Passage to India", "Wild Geese II", "Morons from Outer Space" and "Dreamchild".Edy and Ely Landau bought the film rights to the novel along with "The Chancellor Manuscript".The first draft of the script was done by John Hopkins before Edward Anhalt was brought in to do rewrites.