飞越迷城 (1987)
Ishtar
一对时运不济的歌手兼作曲家查克和李，为了求最后一线生机，接了非洲内陆某城市的登台合约，途中，在中东伊斯达的机场，查克伸出援手帮助一位美丽的革命份子席拉，不料就此卷入一场满惊险和离奇的冒险……
演员阵容
- 沃伦·比蒂 — Lyle Rogers
- 达斯汀·霍夫曼 — Chuck Clarke
- 伊莎贝尔·阿佳妮 — Shirra Assel
- 查尔斯·格罗丁 — Jim Harrison
- 杰克·韦斯顿 — Marty Freed
- 泰丝·哈珀 — Willa
- 卡罗·凯恩 — Carol
- Aharon Ipalé — Emir Yousef
- Fijad Hageb — Abdul
- David Margulies — Mr. Clarke
- Rose Arrick — Mrs. Clarke
- Julie Garfield — Dorothy
趣闻
- 拍摄地：纽约和摩洛哥
- 获奖：1 · 提名：3. 包括：金酸莓獎最差導演獎
Ishtar is a 1987 American adventure comedy film written and directed by Elaine May, and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-stars opposite Dustin Hoffman. The story revolves around Chuck Clarke and Lyle Rogers, a duo of talentless American songwriters who travel to a booking in Morocco and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.
Production
Warren Beatty felt indebted to Elaine May, who, in addition to co-writing his 1978 hit Heaven Can Wait, had done a major uncredited rewrite on the script of his Academy Award-winning Reds and helped immensely with its post-production. He began looking for a project that she could write and direct.
At a dinner with Beatty and Bert Fields, their agent, May said she would like to do a variant on the Road to ... films of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, set in the Middle East. Her idea would feature Beatty and a co-star as a mediocre singer-songwriter duo who would go to Morocco and get caught in the crossfire between the Central Intelligence Agency and a local left-wing guerrilla group.
Hoffman, who was also indebted to May for her extensive uncredited rewrite on Tootsie, initially turned it down due to "misgivings". At Beatty's request, the two met with May and Hoffman's creative confidant, playwright Murray Schisgal. The latter two felt that the plot in Morocco overwhelmed the rest of the film and that it "should not leave New York".
Beatty went to Columbia Pictures production head Guy McElwaine, who years before had been his publicist, instructing Fields, "Bert, anything she wants. Period. That's my negotiating position." Despite the prospect of having two major stars on the same project with a well-regarded writer, McElwaine did not immediately approve it.
The two bankable stars and May received $12.5 million (equivalent to $38.7 million in 2025) in salaries before principal photography began. Beatty and Hoffman offered to defer theirs, but Columbia declined; Fields said that an agreement the studio had with HBO covered most of that cost. Beatty, Hoffman, and May all had final cut input as well (although Beatty has denied this). The film's original budget was set at $27.5 million.
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