Of the three movies that Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito have made altogether as actors in the same film, this picture is the only one which was not part of the Jack Colton-Joan Wilder series represented by the two film franchise of Romancing the Stone (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Moreover, of the three films, The War of the Roses (1989) is the only one that DeVito directed. All three pictures were however all made and produced by the 20th Century Fox film studio.