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| POSTED Sunday , July 11, 2004 10:56:43 PM |
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read the following, from the San Francisco Chronicle:
TONING DOWN "ARTHUR": The PG-13 version of "King Arthur" seen by moviegoers this weekend is not quite the "King Arthur" director Antoine Fuqua had in mind. Fuqua was hired to helm the epic precisely because of his edgy sensibility, evident in "Training Day," the Denzel Washington hit he directed. As it turned out, Fuqua's vision for "Arthur" turned out to be a little bit too edgy.
"I didn't shoot a PG-13 movie," Fuqua tells me. "It was agreed upon to be an R-rated film. I think a lot of it had to do with the tracking of 'King Arthur.' The studio discovered a lot of young people wanted to see 'King Arthur' and that parents wanted to take their kids to see 'King Arthur.' I cut quite a bit of violence and changed the tone in certain areas."
Changes were dictated by the studio after previewing Fuqua's cut of the film for test audiences. "We did a test screening and the audience really wanted that (new) ending," Fuqua says. "People were a little shocked that it's not the traditional version, so they at least want to feel Arthur and Guinevere come together and be anointed, if you will. That was important for the audience. My version was darker. Mine pretty much ended with the battle. They win the war, they lose their friend, they bury him."
Besides shooting a new finale, which restored a wedding scene originally scripted by David Franzoni, Fuqua was asked to tone down the brutality of the fight sequences. "I'd be lying to anybody if I said I'm completely happy with a PG-13. That's not what I shot. I'm happy if it makes a lot of money and everybody's thrilled and I can keep making movies. But I'm trying to make sure every piece of work I do has my signature as a director. When it gets changed because of finances, it affects me. It's not a creative choice. It's a business choice."
From a marketing standpoint, the decision to produce a more family- friendly film made sense for Disney, which originally had slated "King Arthur" for late fall. For the first time since 1994, the studio has no animated feature scheduled for summer.
Fuqua fans eventually will get to see his darker vision. When the "King Arthur" DVD comes out, Fuqua says it will include the director's cut.
I guess he was not too happy with the changes. I wonder what the changes will be on that DVD...
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." |
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