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September 19, 2002 — Zap2it talked to Ron Howard about why he won't be directing The Alamo:
I'm one of the producers, so I'm working on it all the time," Howard tells Zap2it. "I did a lot of research on that and thought a lot about directing it, but ultimately -- and there was a lot written that it was all about money and budget and all that -- but those issues could have been sorted out. We were working on that, but ultimately I realized that there was a disconnect between the studio and I as to how the film should be approached."
Instead of money issues, it appears the differences were over the film's rating.
"They felt like if they spending that much money, they really needed to make it accessible to audiences of all ages and they really thought it had to be, at the most, PG-13," Howard explains. "And I felt for me as a filmmaker, at this point in my career, if I did anything that looked or felt like it might be compromised or watered down, the reality sort of sanitized in any way, I'd be hurting the subject and not doing myself any favors."
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