“Look, if I’d had to take the sex out of this movie, I wouldn’t have made it. And the people who don’t like it are probably responding to the same things. It’s about what is acceptable and what isn’t. It’s about the relationship between the creator and the creation. The verdict? “The people who like the movie,” he says, “are responding to the fact that there’s an emotional component to it.
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Since then, with Silver and co-producer Guillermo del Toro’s backing, he has brought the movie to festivals in Glasgow, London and Gérardmer, France, before returning to America for the first time since Sundance to screen it at the San Francisco Film Festival. Six months ago, he didn’t think Splice was going to get made at all. I would definitely do it again.” You can’t blame Natali if he seems delighted by even the possibility of a second act. And after working with them, I wondered why I was ever an independent. wants a Splice sequel, I’d want to be involved in shepherding the story along in the direction I would have taken it. People assume I was responsible for them, and I wasn’t. “I don’t want to say anything disparaging about those movies, but it’s not what I would have done. “My first film, Cube, has two sequels that I had nothing to do with,” he says. But having toiled for years as an independent filmmaker before enjoying what he calls a “fantastic marriage” with a major studio, he says he’ll be back, in some capacity, if the story continues. It’s nothing less than a miracle.” Natali doesn’t want to talk about the ending of Splice – at least not in print – but he acknowledges that it leaves the door open for a sequel. He’s one of the only producers who knows what he likes and has the power to make it happen. “They have completely embraced everything that is disturbing and weird about it, and I attribute that to Joel. Was the Canadian director worried that Silver would caution him to lighten up the movie’s darkest moments? “I didn’t know what was going to happen after Warner Bros. And the sexual component of the film is something we’ve seen in science-fiction literature but not in movies – at least not treated in a mature way.” The sexual component he’s referring to – without spoiling the movie’s secrets, it’s creepier than it is erotic – is edgy enough that Natali never thought to screen Splice for mega-producer Joel Silver, who became the project’s unlikely guardian angel after this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
“The real genetic-engineering technology that exists and the issues it raises are very much in the public consciousness. “There’s a hunger out there for this,” he says. Natali, 41, who spent 12 years trying to get the movie made – he calls it a personal story that kept calling him back – believes Splice is as much a meditation on modern science and dysfunctional relationships as it is a creature feature. Rather than embracing the sensational, Natali, who co-wrote the original story, seems more interested in the human drama that unfolds as two genetic engineers, played by Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, form a precarious bond with the creature their human-DNA experiment has produced. The difference, in Vincenzo Natali’s chilling, cerebral Splice, is that the premise is handled with unusual restraint. Mankind once again pays the ultimate price for trying to play God.
When asked to explain the inconsistency scriptwriter DYLAN McDILLWEED spelt “time machine” with Scrabble chips and then sprouted wings and flew away.It sounds like the premise of a thousand monster movies: Brilliant but reckless scientists perform an ill-advised experiment, unleashing into the world a deadly beast. SPLICE fans may be confused as to how Dren, who not only changed sexes but also died in the first film, could shop for shoes anywhere much less Abu Dhabi. How audiences would have reacted to such a controversial display is perhaps best left to the imagination. In the unfilmed scene, the sexy genetic mutation was to thank her rescuers profusely with chirps only to have the group of women lift up their burqas to expose mutant legs identical to those of Dren.
One scene in particular, which found the celebrated chimera escorted to safety from an angry mob by a group of Muslim women, was deemed particularly objectionable. Insiders say the shutdown is for the best as early scripts, which involved genetic hybrid “Dren” traveling to Abu Dhabi to shop for shoes, were deemed by many to be in bad taste. The project tentatively titled SPLICE 2: DREN IN THE CITY was, until recently, on the fast track for a summer 2011 release. Regardless of its mostly positive critical reception it looks like plans for a SPLICE sequel are now being put on hold due to its lackluster box office receipts.
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