Ratings (MPAA / BBFC)

I did appreciate that you kept the idea of a vampire being able to crawl upside down or just hanging upside down in the window. That's always one of my favorite vampire images, you know, when vampires do that. And it's a cheap special effect. It's easy, yeah. Some rope. Yeah, and it's a pretty sweet-natured film. I mean, I think this was rated by PG, I think. Oh, I'm sure it was. PG-13. I mean, was there any talk about...

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John McTiernan

In terms of the rating, I think we had the normal sort of negotiating from the MPAA about, take a few frames off this and a few frames off that.

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you may or may not have noticed uh this movie has been rated pg-13 for jungle adventure terror it opened on 2649 screens on june 9th 1995 and seems to have had um that weekend to itself i believe um although tons of things were opening that whole summer big you know movies we still remember like apollo 13 braveheart uh batman forever

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Now it's like a joke. Oh, yeah. This is PG now. This is PG, not even PG-13. Such a joke. Yeah, I should have just been butt naked the whole time. You know who this soldier is? I don't know if we're at the same place. Richard Schiff from... He just won an Emmy for... God, I'm having a moment. You're having a senior moment?

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Let them know they meant business. This shot was an issue, which we thought might get us a ratings problem, but was very sweet. We actually sent the film to the MPA to rate it, and they sent it back saying, we give you the R that you've asked for, and we also want to tell you you have a hell of a film. Congratulations. Very cool. That was a neat moment for us. This location was actually a Turkish mosque that was taken from the World's Fair.

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Peter Hyams

We actually had to trim that sequence for the MPAA. It was a little more graphic and a little more grisly. Not a date tonight? Not just the inflatable kind, a real live girl? Did you break up with the inflatable one? Yeah. She was just too needy. Everything was about her. It's just that this is starting to feel a lot like work. Normally I wouldn't mind. Yeah, when Kevin comes up, when he says it's OK, when Arnold leaves the vent, that's the kind of stuff I love that he makes up. It just seems odd, doesn't it?

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We were shooting these sequences and I asked him if it was difficult to perform against nothing. And he said, Steven, many times in my career I've performed against nothing. He wasn't talking about special effects shots. We'll have to go through his filmography and see what he's talking about. We had such a nightmare with the sequence with the MPAA. Because we were really...

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We actually have a few more seconds of strangling in the extended cut because remember the MPAA asked us to reduce the intensity and we shortened one of the strangling shots and then we put it back at its original length here. So this is a complete full strangulation, never seen before, here exclusively on DVD. In this shot here, old Tom, who's trying his hardest to be dead, actually blinked right in the middle of the shot, but Andy's performance was so great on this particular take

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James McTeigue

What are they gonna do, fine us? Big deal. We've got the most-watched show on air. Well, you're my agent, that's what I pay you for. Protect me. I should've hired him to be my mother. You're mad. - Either that or I wasn't breast-fed. ls everything a joke to you? - Only the things that matter. What if they come after you? - I tell you what's gonna happen. I'll have to make some kind of apology, do some boring fundraiser. In the meantime, our ratings will go through the roof. It'll be fine. Trust me.

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And in the rules of this game that have been clearly set up, this is the only way he can get it, or it could be dealt a death blow. And I made it as gruesome a death as I could get away with in PG-13 with him being cooked from the inside and being gone for good. And the causality with the army, that the army is gone

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but why wouldn't they, I don't know. But I think we got away with it. I just suddenly watched the scene thinking, I made a mistake here, but that's life. Suddenly I understood why superheroes only existed in comic books. Okay, I could tell you a really funny sequence here, right? This is R-rated, so I'm gonna go really on it now. So Aaron said, look, I think the way we should do this, I should really fuck her over the bins.

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Now you got it, right? - This is what I love. Once the gre... That's it going off. Okay. - Yeah. Well, I didn't know. Last night was the first time I had seen this shot finished. The MPAA, remember, was really worried... ...we were gonna put a giant set of genitalia on him. Oh, they did. - Oh, they did. Yeah, that's the director's cut version. This was hard, I think. Because we had just been in this violent extravaganza. And now for emotions. But I think it works. - It works great. Because Kate is good and India is good. "You came back for me." - Yeah. And I remem-- This-- All... The tears and so on on Kate is completely real. Yeah. - But this is why she is, you know... This is why Kate is a movie star. She times it so the tear comes exactly where you want it. And I remember.... You only get that from professional actors. They know their body like, you know, true musicians. Go. I'll send them... ...on a different path, buy you some time. This is a part of the movie where we struggled... ...tried to figure out what to do now. How do we end the movie? - Yeah. We went through so many different permutations. We did film Michael watching them. - Yep. From the roof. - Yep. This scene was always in the film. - Yeah. That she comes back and finds the.... There was a period where we weren't. No. This was actually decided... It was not in the script. This was halfway through the shoot, we realized we needed this scene. We didn't wanna end on a rooftop... ...because it's kind of cliché a little bit. We did it in our Swedish film, Storm, actually... So then we ended it on a rooftop. - So-- But, you Know.... Sometimes cliches work. - Yeah. I think it's better than a forest. lt worked for the voiceover. Yeah, it was in a forest. Yeah. That was-- Yeah. But you want a nice wide shot. - Right. You see the city, see the world. And.... - The close-ups. I remember waiting for Len to write this voiceover, it took forever. But then he got it, and it was great. - Then he delivers. Because you get this "fuck, yeah" feeling. I've always thought that it's Kate that writes them... ...but Len actually does write them. Well, we'll never know, will we? I like those guys. That's those Swedish guys, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Wonderful writers, John Hlavin... ...Michael Straczynski, Allison Burnett. Yep. There's Len again. - Len and John Hlavin. Kevin Grevioux, shout-out to Kevin. - That's right. Anyone fancy a pint? - We have to trash everyone. We have to trash those guys for sure. - Producers. David Kern, there he is. - And David Coatsworth. Good on you, mate. Yeah, that's it. - That's it. Scott Kevan, DP. Excellent. Yep. - In the house. Claude Pare. - Yes. Award-winning production designer. Jeff McEvoy, the gentleman. - Yes. He was there the whole time. - Monique Prudhomme, costumes. Paul Haslinger, Underworld veteran. Are you gonna go through all of these? I'm just reading. It's not that hard. Tricia and Deb did all of the Underworlds too. Couple of small words here. - Needs no introduction. India, she was the third girl or second girl in the room. Remember that? - Yes, absolutely. And we just looked at each other. "This is the girl." "This is the girl." In, like, five seconds. Me and Bjérn never did big Hollywood movies. But you sure as hell had before. - Yes. "Does it work like this? Can we say yes?" You were like, "Yeah, yeah. I think we should go." That was amazing. That'll be the last time that ever happens in your career. When we saw Theo, we all liked him... ...from the very beginning too. - Yeah. But India was... She was the first day of casting. But Theo we cast in London, though. Yeah, but the moment we saw the tape, it was done. But that was after going through a lot of people in L.A. Yeah. A lot. - Yeah. Richard Wright. - Yeah, how about that? Yeah. Love that guy. Yeah. - Yeah. Paul Barry. I Know it sounds funny but... We forgot to shout-out to Paul Barry. Paul and Nee Nee. - Best first AD ever. And here it says.... - Brad Martin. Gets his own card, damn it. - Yes. As he should. You should work with him if you wanna do good action. Oh, you know-- I actually am right now. How about that? Good for you. I thought this Evanescence song worked too, quite frankly. Yep. America's biggest Goth band. They're Americans? Yeah. - Yeah. Dude. - Yeah. "Dude." - What? But there's-- It's... When you sit here... ...and look at the names of all the people that worked on the movie... ... you realize what a collaborative effort these things always are. The fact that the five of us can sit in a room... ...and talk about it is one thing... ...but the filmmakers are really everybody on this list. Well, but the other.... I agree, but at the same time l.... After we finished shooting the film, which was a very difficult shoot... ...we came back to Los Angeles and we cut at the Lakeshore offices... ...and Mans and Bjérn were there religiously every day... ...putting their heart and soul into the movie. And I think they were... They put their heart and soul into the movie... ...from the moment we met them to the moment the movie was finished. So as producers, I think we have to really thank them. Thank you very much. - Yeah. That was very nice words, Gary. Thank you. - You're welcome. We are as tall as we are... ...because we stand on the shoulders of giants. Yeah. - And I kept saying to myself... And this is the part where everybody turns this stuff off. Nobody's listening right now. - We worked our asses off. But James McQuaide delivered on those visual effects. I Know. I gotta tell you, man.... It only took five years off the end of his life. Oh, jeez. The best he's ever done. lt was fantastic. It is very therapeutic to watch this. It is, isn't it? Yeah. - Now it is done. We can move on. - It's done. Yep. And it's Friday night at 6:20 p.m. And.... Film's opening tonight. - Yeah. Have we got numbers back? Have we got numbers about how it's doing? Yeah, very good so far. The advance New York early-screening report... Excellent. Didn't you say that it did great in Thailand? Taiwan. - Taiwan. Thank you, people of Taiwan. - Yeah, thank you, Taiwan. Shout-out to Taiwan. All right, so this is pretty much it. Thanks, everybody, for listening to our babbling. And have a good night or a good day or whatever. Are you gonna say something in Swedish?

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