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2. Weinsteins' interference. The principal production company involved in making the film was Dimension Films, headed by the Weinstein brothers at the time. Supposedly, everything went smoothly until these two started meddling in the production
right on the spot and imposing their own demands, most of which were completely at odds with Morgan's more modest vision. He aimed to pay far greater homage to the source material. In the original screenplay, the tone was much more serious with
a noticeable lack of black comedy, there was only one killer instead of two - Agnes (Dimension Films however demanded that there would be two killers, Billy was initially supposed to be long dead); the film was supposed to be much less brutal,
and so on. The unpopular idea to introduce a backstory to the killer did come out of Morgan's head, though. That's all on him.
Moreover, Wong and Morgan (along with the cast) heatily clashed with the Weinstein brothers over the way the movie should end, which ultimately led to multiple rewrites and reshoots, resulting in three alternate endings (US/UK/DVD versions)
and alternate deaths for several characters. Morgan later reflected that once the Weinsteins came on set for the first time 'to oversee' the filming, the until-then laid-back mood grew tense pretty quickly.
They even secretly had the cast to film a number of scenes behind Morgan's back, their sole purpose being deceptive advertising as part of the trailer. These deleted scenes never saw the light of day in the final cut (e. g. Michelle aka
Melissa holding a shotgun while saying 'Merry Christmas, motherfucker'), which sparked understandable uproar at the time and undoubtedly contributed to the film's very poor reception.
3. Three alternate endings. One is trash, the other is entertaining, but still trash, only the third one (the one creators intended from the very beginning) is ok-ish.
right on the spot and imposing their own demands, most of which were completely at odds with Morgan's more modest vision. He aimed to pay far greater homage to the source material. In the original screenplay, the tone was much more serious with
a noticeable lack of black comedy, there was only one killer instead of two - Agnes (Dimension Films however demanded that there would be two killers, Billy was initially supposed to be long dead); the film was supposed to be much less brutal,
and so on. The unpopular idea to introduce a backstory to the killer did come out of Morgan's head, though. That's all on him.
Moreover, Wong and Morgan (along with the cast) heatily clashed with the Weinstein brothers over the way the movie should end, which ultimately led to multiple rewrites and reshoots, resulting in three alternate endings (US/UK/DVD versions)
and alternate deaths for several characters. Morgan later reflected that once the Weinsteins came on set for the first time 'to oversee' the filming, the until-then laid-back mood grew tense pretty quickly.
They even secretly had the cast to film a number of scenes behind Morgan's back, their sole purpose being deceptive advertising as part of the trailer. These deleted scenes never saw the light of day in the final cut (e. g. Michelle aka
Melissa holding a shotgun while saying 'Merry Christmas, motherfucker'), which sparked understandable uproar at the time and undoubtedly contributed to the film's very poor reception.
3. Three alternate endings. One is trash, the other is entertaining, but still trash, only the third one (the one creators intended from the very beginning) is ok-ish.
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