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Diane Renee Thomas (January 7, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American screenwriter who wrote the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, her only produced screenplay credit.
Mar 29, 2024 · Diane Thomas was a waitress when she made headlines for the script sale of what would become a box office smash. But the Cinderella story had a sad ending.
- Bob Mehr
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also stars in the film alongside Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film follows a romance novelist who must venture beyond her New York City comfort zone to Colombia in order to save her ...
Diane Thomas was born in 1946 and died in 1985 in a car accident. She wrote and acted in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, and received a Porsche from Michael Douglas as a gift.
- Writer, Actress
- January 7, 1946
- Diane Thomas
- October 21, 1985
Screenwriter Diane Renee Thomas, who burst into fame six years ago when she sold the screenplay for the hit film, “Romancing the Stone,” has died in an 80-m.p.h. car crash on Pacific Coast...
Diane Thomas was a writer and actress who died in a car accident in 1985. She wrote Romancing the Stone (1984) and pitched the idea to Michael Douglas, who produced the film.
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Apr 21, 2022 · Diane Thomas was a novice writer who sold her first script, Romancing the Stone, in 1978 and became a Hollywood success. She died in a car crash in 1985, but her story inspired other movies like The Lost City, which paid homage to her adventure romance.
