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Writers Carlos Davis and Anthony Fingleton first took the script to Disney who wanted it to star Goldie Hawn , but not cast Rik Mayall as Disney had a picture deal with Hawn at the time. Davis and Fingleton declined this idea and then took it to London based production company Working Title Films. Working Title executives Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe liked the script and soon brought on Dutch filmmaker Ate De Jong as a director after seeing a horror comedy he directed previously called Highway zur Hölle (1991) and Davis and Fingleton were impressed with his work on that film. Working Title also brought on Paul Webster as a producer as he produced Das lange Elend (1989) for them a year earlier. The $6 million budget was funded by PolyGram whom Working Title had a deal with at the time. See more