Source: HLN. If you’re an architect and you design a cabin for the woods, and somebody says, ‘We want to make it into a skyscraper’ . Over the past three decades, the story behind the original Pretty Woman script—how it was dark, how it didn’t have a happy ending, how it wasn’t really the kind of property anyone would ever expect Disney to go for—has been flattened out into the kind of narrative that’s literally trivial, a footnote in the history of a wildly successful and deeply beloved film. Basically, it was “dark” and “gritty” before Hollywood even knew they wanted “dark” and “gritty.”, That didn’t stop the industry from loving the script, however, original dark conclusion and all. Lawton were devastated by the way his gritty drama, originally called 3,000, was turned into the uber-rom-com Pretty Woman, that’s not what happened either. Specifically, they were looking for something darker to keep director Garry Marshall at Disney after the success of Beaches, another film with some dark underpinnings. Red Sneakers, a more serious film from the mostly ninja flick–oriented Lawton, then beget 3,000, a dark fable about a financially destroyed America and the perils of showing the good life to people who had never experienced it before. That he happened to be living in Hollywood at the time, in a neighborhood populated by daughters of the Rust Belt who had turned to prostitution, was just a strange coincidence. rarity leaves Alex Trebek lonely, Justin Bieber's footwear collaboration overwhelms site, Google CEO reacts to growing calls to break up big tech (2019), Giraffe's identity is revealed on 'The Masked Singer', Jimmy Fallon pokes fun at VP debate stage setup, Dangerous TikTok trends go viral because we like to be liked. “I believe that Laura did come out with the last line—‘She saves him right back,’ ” Lawton recalls fondly. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/julia-roberts-pretty-woman-original-ending ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. I think they probably would have replaced me anyway, but the reason they claimed to fire me is that I lightened it too much and they were concerned,” Lawton remembers. It didn’t seem like a vision everybody would have, but I did.”, Lawton believes the studio wanted a happy ending in particular because Gere and Roberts were being courted for the lead roles. “I was thrilled! Lawton was a struggling screenwriter when he first wrote 3,000 in the late 1980s, a dark drama that drew inspiration from films like Wall Street and The Last Detail. “I suddenly said, ‘Well, maybe I need to do something more serious and dramatic,’ and I had written a script called Red Sneakers which was about a one-legged lesbian standup comic who was an alcoholic, and all of a sudden, I got a lot of attention. And it became more something that is in my wheelhouse.”. 'HOMECOMING' STAR JULIA ROBERTS OPENS UP ABOUT 'MENTAL CHALLENGE' OF FILMING NEW AMAZON SERIES, “So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called '3,000,'”  Arquette said. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/pretty-woman-original-ending Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. or redistributed. the fact that Disney came in and wanted to do it as a big-budget movie with a major director was a great thing.”. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. The Oscar winner revealed that the original script was very dark and gritty compared to the rom-com it's now known as. “There was a lot of discussion by a lot of people . As Lawton tells it, he was just trying to do something new to get a gig. During Variety's "Actors on Actors" interview, Roberts, 51, told fellow actress Patricia Arquette that she auditioned, at first, for a very different movie. It gave Hollywood permission to do it, and then Garry was smart enough, because he’s got incredible pop instincts, to say, ‘O.K., this is what people want to see, they want to see the fairy tale.’ ”, At the end of Pretty Woman—not the end of 3,000—the character known as “Happy Man” (played by Abdul Salaam Razzac), joyfully yells to the characters, the extras, the audience itself: “Welcome to Hollywood! “If I had written the final draft, or somebody else had written the final draft, I don’t think it ever would have gotten produced,” he offers. Julia Roberts, in her iconic streetwalking outfit, but without the platinum wig, behind the scenes with director Garry Marshall. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. All rights reserved. ", Here's the original ending to 'Pretty Woman', Family shares moment with daughter after dream school acceptance, See Pete Buttigieg's viral Fox News moments, Utah hiker shares what he was thinking when he faced cougar, Twitter suspends fake accounts pretending to be Black Trump supporters, 7-year-old able to run again after surgery delayed for months, Florida Latinos targeted by misinformation and conspiracy theories, The first virtual Presidential debate happened 60 years ago, 'Jeopardy!' A collaborative process that Lawton, 25 years later, sees as only for the best. Julia [Roberts] was Rapunzel, Richard [Gere] was Prince Charming and Hector [Elizondo] was the fairy godmother. (Still, even then, Lawton maintains, “There was always a debate about the ending.”) The film was developed at the Sundance Institute and then purchased by producers Arnon Milchan and Steven Reuther, of Vestron; when that company went belly up, the film’s rights, as Lawton puts it, were “upgraded to Disney.”. It ended up being one heck of a fortuitous upgrade, because Disney just so happened to be looking for something darker. (Buena Vista/Getty Images), Roberts described how that "3,000" ended with her character being shoved out of a car and someone "threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley.”, ELIZABETH HURLEY, 53, SIZZLES IN HOT PINK BIKINI, “So it really read like a gritty art movie,” Arquette added. And the ending was really heavy.”, Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in a scene from the film 'Pretty Woman', 1990. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. If anyone deserves an additional writing credit, though, it might just be Marshall himself, who, Lawton reveals is responsible for a number of the film’s details, including Vivian’s fairy-tale speech and the polo match.

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