The Studio Couldn’t Pay for the Film’s Posters
Even though screenwriter Callie Khouri’s script was sharp, witty, and humorous, she suffered dozens of rejections before someone agreed to take it. Having two women outlaws was tremendously different from anything Hollywood had ever produced before, and most studios were too reluctant to become the first ones to do it.
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The only studio willing to work with Khouri’s script was Pathé Entertainment, a film company that was in a financial rut at the time. The studio ran so short of money that they couldn’t even pay for the movie’s posters at one point.