By Ryan Parsons | Image property of 20th Century Fox, AMC
Babylon A.D.
It's not only the screeners who think that Babylon A.D. is bad, it's the film's director too. That's right, director Mathieu Kassovitz thinks the film sucks. He's not blaming his directing however, but the production woes brought on by 20th Century Fox.
Babylon A.D. Hated... By the Director
AMCTV caught up with director Mathieu Kassovitz -- but you might know him as the guy who blows himself up in Munich -- to discuss why Babylon A.D. sucks to the point that Fox does not want to screen it for critics.
I'm very unhappy with the film," he says. "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience."
"Fox was sending lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots," he says. "They made everything difficult from A to Z." The last stroke, Kassovitz says, was when Fox interfered with the editing of the film, paring it down to a confusing 93 minutes (original reports were that 70 minutes were cut from the film; Kassovitz says the number is closer to 15). Diesel too was astounded at the film's length. Having just completed production of the fourth installment of The Fast and the Furious, he had not seen a cut of the film in six months. "Am I even in the movie any more, or am I on the cutting room floor?" the actor joked. Fox could not be reached for comment on this story.
While Kassovitz is happy with some of the film's scenes, he has learned a lesson from the experience.
"I should have chosen a studio that has guts," he says. "Fox was just trying to get a PG-13 movie. I'm ready to go to war against them, but I can't because they don't give a s--t."
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