Amazon Prime now has a sci-fi flop starring Vin Diesel that the director hates and with good reason]

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Amazon Prime now has a sci fi flop starring Vin Diesel

With larger and more expensive film productions, studios influence the shooting. This is completely normal. In the case of Babylon AD, however, the interventions went too far. If director Mathieu Kassovitz had had his way, action star Vin Diesel wouldn’t have starred in the sci-fi film in the first place.

On Wednesday, Amazon Prime included the blockbuster in the flat rate *. We explain to you the wild background story of Babylon AD

What is Babylon AD with Vin Diesel about?

The story of Babylon AD begins in Eastern Europe in a dystopian future where chaos reigns. Vin Diesel plays Toorop. The mercenary is ready to do any job for the right amount of money. Mafia boss Gorsky (Gérard Depardieu) sends Toorop to smuggle the young woman Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) to New York. In return, Gorsky wants to give him a fresh start in America.

Babylon AD – Trailer (German)

The director would prefer not to have anything to do with Babylon AD anymore

According to Mathieu Kassovitz, filming Babylon AD was pure torture. In an interview talked about the formidable creative differences between itself and the studio 20th Century Fox, which already began with the choice of the leading actor: Vincent Cassel was originally supposed to play the leading role. Kassowitz praised the “fantastic” Book template Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec. However, his film did not come close to that. Kassovitz’ conclusion: “He is pure violence and stupidity.”

Those are them most impressive frustration quotes from the Babylon AD directorwith which he distances himself miles from his work:

  • “I never had the opportunity to shoot a scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it.”
  • “The script was not respected. Bad producers, bad partners.”
  • “Parts of the film look like a bad episode [der Serie] 24.”
  • “I had something much better on my hands, but I wasn’t allowed to work.”
  • “It was a horrible experience.”

    • In 2011 even the Documentary Fucking Kassovitz The Making of Babylon AD, in which the director finally settled accounts with the production.

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    Kassowitz did not participate in the press tours prior to the film’s release. He would have “choose a studio with courage” he said of the creative disaster that brought Vin Diesel one of the major failures of his career. On a budget of $45 million, Babylon AD only grossed $70 million, making it an economic failure as well.

    You can now check whether Mathieu Kassovitz’s hatred of his own film is justified on Amazon Prime.

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