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Originally Posted by urgeok
thats when you say - screw it - we're making a comedy... and run with the limitations
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The first draft was a straight-up parody of Dragonslayer...SciFi HATES it when you don't take thier shit seriously. I actually had a shitty French producer going over every line of my script and taking out every line that he didn't find "heroic".
In his eyes a hero is never afraid of anything - he couldn't understand that a hero is more compelling when he/she is frightened, yet perseveres in the face of fear.
So I tried to push everything to point of being way too serious and as a result, comical. But the actors and director played it straight and the joke was lost.