Brian Damage
03-27-2009, 02:04 PM
First he was told that he would not return to the Superman franchise, and now he is getting completely cut out of a ovie he was starring in!
Don’t look for the most recent Superman, actor Brandon Routh, in the latest film made from a book by Brett Easton Ellis. Routh’s whole plot line was cut from "The Informers," a movie that also features the two principal actors from "9 ½ Weeks" — Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger — but not in scenes together.
Sources say that when "The Informers" finally hits theaters on May 1st, we can also expect to see just about no one from its cast or creative side doing publicity. The reason is that Ellis and screenwriter Nick Jarecki are pretty unhappy about the way the movie turned out. The main actors are said to be in agreement. "The Informers" that they all started to make, they’ve told friends, is quite different from the finished product.
The trouble was generated when Gregor Jordan replaced Jarecki as director after Jarecki and Ellis did about three years worth of prep work adapting Ellis’s novel. "It was going to be like Boogie Nights, and now it’s turned into some terrible, dark meditation," an insider told me.
Routh’s part was cut when new financing came along, and Jarecki was replaced by Jordan. It’s an odd choice. "The Informers" is set in Los Angeles; Jordan is from Australia. Jarecki and Ellis’s script was cut from 150 to 94 pages.
Ellis told bookforum.com that the movie was supposed to be "an absurdist, lighthearted, and expansive satire."
He said: "It’s hard to tell now, but it was supposed to be like criminals and vampires and girls and young people." But the vampire story — Routh’s plot line — was cut out completely amid budget concerns and complaints of too much sex and violence. Obviously, the financial people didn’t see "American Psycho" or research any of its attendant publicity.
Ellis concluded: "There were things I recognized, and a lot that I missed. But it’s the director’s version of the script, and that’s just how it is."
As Jarecki, there’s an irony: on the same day the bastardized version of "The Informers" is released, so, too comes James Toback’s "Tyson" documentary, on which Jarecki worked as an executive producer with his dad, Henry Jarecki (he invented Moviefone). "Tyson" is superb, and has been a pleasant experience for everyone involved.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510877,00.html
Don’t look for the most recent Superman, actor Brandon Routh, in the latest film made from a book by Brett Easton Ellis. Routh’s whole plot line was cut from "The Informers," a movie that also features the two principal actors from "9 ½ Weeks" — Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger — but not in scenes together.
Sources say that when "The Informers" finally hits theaters on May 1st, we can also expect to see just about no one from its cast or creative side doing publicity. The reason is that Ellis and screenwriter Nick Jarecki are pretty unhappy about the way the movie turned out. The main actors are said to be in agreement. "The Informers" that they all started to make, they’ve told friends, is quite different from the finished product.
The trouble was generated when Gregor Jordan replaced Jarecki as director after Jarecki and Ellis did about three years worth of prep work adapting Ellis’s novel. "It was going to be like Boogie Nights, and now it’s turned into some terrible, dark meditation," an insider told me.
Routh’s part was cut when new financing came along, and Jarecki was replaced by Jordan. It’s an odd choice. "The Informers" is set in Los Angeles; Jordan is from Australia. Jarecki and Ellis’s script was cut from 150 to 94 pages.
Ellis told bookforum.com that the movie was supposed to be "an absurdist, lighthearted, and expansive satire."
He said: "It’s hard to tell now, but it was supposed to be like criminals and vampires and girls and young people." But the vampire story — Routh’s plot line — was cut out completely amid budget concerns and complaints of too much sex and violence. Obviously, the financial people didn’t see "American Psycho" or research any of its attendant publicity.
Ellis concluded: "There were things I recognized, and a lot that I missed. But it’s the director’s version of the script, and that’s just how it is."
As Jarecki, there’s an irony: on the same day the bastardized version of "The Informers" is released, so, too comes James Toback’s "Tyson" documentary, on which Jarecki worked as an executive producer with his dad, Henry Jarecki (he invented Moviefone). "Tyson" is superb, and has been a pleasant experience for everyone involved.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510877,00.html