Die Hard 4 editor brought in to soften Hitman's violence
10-10-07, 06:16 PM
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Die Hard 4 editor brought in to soften Hitman's violence
http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/fox-...r-xavier-gens/
While there has been no official word on this so far I’m hearing it from enough sources very close to the film itself and the principals involved that I’m quite confident reporting it as fact. Word is out that Fox has yanked control of upcoming video game adaptation away from director Xavier Gens. This happens from time to time if a director turns in weak footage but that is not the case here. After being hired to shoot an adaptation of the ultra-violent video game Gens took Asian action films such as The Killer and A Bittersweet Life as his starting point and turned in an explicitly violent, very bloody cut of the film that apparently included a number of head shots and extreme gore moments that would have guaranteed the film a hard R rating. Which really shouldn’t have been any sort of surprise if the studio execs had been paying any attention at all - it’s not like they wouldn’t have seen the dailies or effects work ahead of time - but apparently after seeing Gens’ cut of the film the studio removed him from the project and placed Nicolas De Toth in control of a new edit of the film. Who’s De Toth? He’s the man behind the edit of Live Free Or Die Hard, a job he was hired for specifically to turn in an entirely bloodless version of the film and word is that this is his task with Hit Man as well. So what are we going to get? A bloodless version of the film assembled with no input whatsoever from Gens. Very sad considering just how promising the trailers have been so far.
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10-10-07, 08:59 PM
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UNRATED TRIPLE DIP DVD!!!!!!!
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sigh...
10-10-07, 10:51 PM
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Sadly, that's probably the real reason for it. People will go see it, be let down that it wasn't bloody at all, and then a year later there's an Unrated DVD that everyone who saw it the first time will want to check out, as well as those of us who lost interest once they heard about the edit. It seems like half the major studio releases are produced with the DVD in mind from the start, rather than focusing on making each product stand on its own...
10-11-07, 01:05 AM
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Their home video division has done a piss poor job with their Blu-ray launch. Their prime time lineup is a disaster. And now their film execs are destroying both existing and potential franchises and butchering movies clearly intended for an R-rating in order to squeeze a few more dollars out of the teen audience.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Fox. Good thing their cable news channel is beating CNN, cuz that's all they've got going for them right now.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Fox. Good thing their cable news channel is beating CNN, cuz that's all they've got going for them right now.
10-11-07, 04:04 AM
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I swear, this country has gone pussy. 
10-11-07, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Poink
Sadly, that's probably the real reason for it. People will go see it, be let down that it wasn't bloody at all, and then a year later there's an Unrated DVD that everyone who saw it the first time will want to check out, as well as those of us who lost interest once they heard about the edit. It seems like half the major studio releases are produced with the DVD in mind from the start, rather than focusing on making each product stand on its own...
10-11-07, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by FinkPish
The execs at Fox are idiots.
10-11-07, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by DVD Josh
These are the same folks who also are "coming back in a big way" in BD by releasing barebones discs at $40 a piece.
10-11-07, 09:08 AM
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So...are they still going to have the balls to release AVP:2 as an R-rated flick? Someone needs to go into Fox and bitchslap these morons. If this 'De Toth' version is the one that hits theatres, I'm skipping 'Hitman'...hopefully they wake up and smell the violence before then.
10-11-07, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by FinkPish
Who the fuck makes a movie about a professional hitman and then wants to soften the violence? The execs at Fox are idiots.
Idiots indeed.
10-11-07, 10:27 AM
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wait a second. This is going to be an R flick, right? I am pretty sure it has been marketed this way the entire time.
10-11-07, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Deftones
wait a second. This is going to be an R flick, right? I am pretty sure it has been marketed this way the entire time.
10-11-07, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Draven
I would assume this signals a move to PG-13, since an R is an R.
10-11-07, 11:28 AM
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The trailers for this film didn't do much for me, but knowing this guarantees I won't see it in theaters. Excessive blood may have been the only thing to get me to see it.
10-11-07, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
Maybe Fox just has a problem with Timothy Olyphant.
10-11-07, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Doughboy
Well they did allow The Girl Next Door to get released with an R rating, so they don't completely hate the guy.
10-11-07, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
It's a new director, and more than just editing will be done but re-shoots as well. I can't believe this is the same company that greenlighted Fight Club.
