Wow… I really had high hopes for this film. But for a director to come out and say these things in the middle of the movie’s press round… it’s gotta be bad. Babylon A.D comes out this weekend… and director Mathieu Kassovitz is angry! He rips Fox Studios a new one in a recent interview with AMC.
"I’m very unhappy with the film. 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.""It’s pure violence and stupidity. The movie is supposed
to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of
our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be
driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the
characters… instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24."
Why did he have to bring in 24? And hello! Is there such a thing as a bad episode of 24? 
Anyway, Mathieu is really angry over the final editing of the film. Important scenes were removed that essentially ruined the 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).
In the end, I think Mathieu is trying to wash his hands of the event. If it bombs, this statement proves that the movie wasn’t really what the director envisioned to begin with.
"I don’t see how people who went through all these amazing blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Iron Man this summer will take it. It’s hard. Filmmaking is such a collaborative effort you can’t look to one
person. I should have chosen a studio that
has guts. 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."
Sadly enough, I’m still going to go see it. After all of this, the trailer had me at hello. Do stories like these sway you or get your more interested in the final product?
No comment by Fox.
Ok so I’m down. Any film that has Lux Aeterna as its trailer song is a film I’m willing to take a chance on. I’ll be right there at the theatre with you Vera.
I’m not one of these people that sees action films just for the sake of an action film. They kill my brain cells. My husband is, though- and I cannot understand it at all. I could go on, but I will get flamed, so I will just leave it at that. I feel bad for the director, yes, and he has got some SERIOUS chutzpah to stand up to a major studio like that.
EVERY episode of 24 is a bad episode
Im so outta the loop. I have no idea what this movie is. Never heard if it before.
This is sad, but I enjoy Vin Deisel (sp) and will definitely see the film; though not in the theatre; I’ll wait and rent it.
It must be frustrating to have your worked hacked by other people who are seemingly only interested in numbers.
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