“Babylon A.D.” Director Mathieu Kassovitz Mad at FOX
Vin Diesel and Matieu Kassovitz | Babylon A.D.
The Vin Diesel sci-fi/action flick “Babylon A.D.” hits theaters on August 29 and of all people that should be happy about it, the director, isn’t. Matieu Kassovitz (Gothika) clearly didn’t have a very good time making the film.
As he candidly tells AMCTV:
“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.
Kassovitz says Fox reps swarmed on the production after weather related setbacks and other budgetary concerns began to appear during production.
“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.” Kassovitz’s breaking point was when the suits commandeered the editing room and pared the film down to a “confusing 93 minutes” from his original 108 minute cut. Star Vin Diesel chimed in on this count, asking “Am I even in the movie any more, or am I on the cutting room floor?”
New International “Babylon A.D.” Trailer
A new international trailer for the upcoming Vin Diesel action flick “Babylon A.D.” has been released.
“Babylon A.D.” is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, who last helmed Halle Berry’s “Gothika” back in 2003. He seems to be just as popular behind the camera as he is in front. You might remember Kassovitz from “Munich,” where he played one of the Mossad agents along side Daniel Craig and Eric Bana.
“Babylon A.D.” is scheduled to hit theaters on August 29th, 2008. Read the rest of this entry
“Babylon A.D.” New Pics
A new photos for the upcoming Vin Diesel action flick “Babylon A.D.” has been released.
The film is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, who last helmed Halle Berry’s “Gothika” back in 2003. He seems to be just as popular behind the camera as he is in front. You might remember Kassovitz from “Munich,” where he played one of the Mossad agents along side Daniel Craig and Eric Bana.
“Babylon A.D.” is scheduled to hit theaters on August 29th, 2008. For all movie stills go here.
“Babylon A.D.” - Behind the scenes clip
Take a look at “Babylon A.D.” behind-the-scenes featurette.
Mathieu Kassovitz ’s “Babylon A.D.” starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gerard Depardieu will hit the theaters on August 29, 2008.
”Babylon A.D.” - New Photos
In the near future, a mercenary is charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada and learns that she has been manipulated by a synthetic virus and what lies inside her could doom the human race.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Gérard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson
Release date: 29 August 2008
‘Babylon A.D.’ International Trailer #2
AlloCine has just posted the French teaser trailer #2 for the upcoming Vin Diesel film, “Babylon A.D.“, which hits the theaters on August 29 2008.
The movie is set in the near future, and is about a mercenary who is charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada. He learns that she has been manipulated by a synthetic virus and what lies inside her could doom the human race.
“Babylon A.D.” is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, who last helmed Halle Berry’s “Gothika” back in 2003. He seems to be just as popular behind the camera as he is in front. You might remember Kassovitz from “Munich,” where he played one of the Mossad agents along side Daniel Craig and Eric Bana.
“Babylon A.D.” Rumors Denied
There’s been many movie rumors these days…
Along with the delay from February 2008 to the last weekend of August, there was talk that a near three-hour cut of the ‘Babylon A.D.‘ existed and would be shown in European theatres, whilst in the US there would only be a cutdown sub-two hour version of the film.
But official sources said:
“Babylon AD has never had a 2hr 40min cut. This rumor came from a joke [Director] Mathieu Kassovitz did in front of some journalists last September…apparently some of them didn’t understand it.
The approximate length of the film is 1hr 40min and this is what has been delivered to our partner FOX. So I can reassure you, FOX is not chopping up the film and cutting 70 mins.”
There will be some differences however between the US domestic version, rated PG-13, and the harder core international versions
The European cut of the film will run at 105 minutes, whilst the US/UK cut was submitted to the UK’s BBFC for classification and was officially pegged at 90 minutes long.
