AMERICAN HISTORY X Directors Cut Coming. Kinda….
Rotten Tomatoes have reported that a Directors Cut of American History X is kind of on it’s way…
Y’see, when the film was made director Tony Kaye suffered at the hands of studio meddling and the theatrical version was mainly credited to Edward Norton. But now New Line want to “set the record straight” and have approached Kaye regarding a Directors Cut. Unfortunately the actual cut Kaye did no longer exists but there is still going to be a release…..
“New Line did come to me a couple years ago and were very interested to release the director’s cut and would I be so kind,” said Kaye. “So I said there is a film called Humpty Dumpty that I made. I documented my fight, not from the very beginning but from the time that I went to the Toronto Film Festival in 1998 and had the film pulled from the festival. They’re going to release that film next year which is a documentary film.”
The actual “cut” of Kaye’s version no longer exists, but the documentary will convey what he would have done. “In a way, that’s what American History X might have been. My director’s cut, what I was fighting for, doesn’t exist but in the film, in Humpty Dumpty, I explain kind of what I was trying to do back then. I would do it now if there was a call for it but it would take a budget and all kinds of time. I don’t think New Line would be so keen to do that.”
Maybe not, but wouldn’t it be cool if they did? A “new” version of Amercian History X, which is already a powerful movie, taken from the directors original vision. Now that would be something….
I wouldn’t hold my breath though - but the documentary should be interesting for fans of the original movie.
[Source - Rotten Tomatoes]
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