Paramount Sensative to Shuttle Disaster
February 3, 2003
In what unfortunately has become necessary common Hollywood
protocol, yet another cinematic trailer will be pulled and possibly edited in
light of a world wide tragedy. The Space Shuttle Columbia and its fatal flight
quickly prompted Viacom Inc owned studios, to review the trailer for The Core.
Produced by Paramount, “The Core” is a
sci-fi adventure involving NASA “terranauts” who have to travel to the center
of the earth and save the world. Certain scenes from the trailer, depicts a NASA space
shuttle suffering from extreme turbulence while attempting to escape the Earths
atmosphere. Though it is unlikely that the March 28, 2003 release would be
delayed, it wouldn’t be the first time a film has been deferred or even altered
because of tragedy. Last year during the Washington Sniper incidents, 20th
Century Fox pushed back it’s November 15th release of the movie, “Phone Booth”. The
movies story line involves a man played by Collin Farrell who gets
trapped in a phone booth by a rooftop sniper performed by Kiefer Sutherland. Its
current release date is April 4th 2003. Earlier, an Arnold Schwarzenegger
film, “Collateral
Damage” was delayed because of the September 11th terrorist
attack. This films story line revolved around Schwarzennegers character; a fire
fighter that lost his family in a terrorist attack. It was released on February
8th 2002. An even more notable movie delay, that even included actual
scene changes because of the September 11th attack, involved the
block busting “SpiderMan” movie. “SpiderMan” originally included scenes of the
web slinger spinning a sticky trap between the World Trade Center buildings in
order to catch a fleeing helicopter full of thieves. The scene was later edited
out, and any subsequent scenes with the World Trade Center buildings, altered. George W. Horta III Additional Source: www.philly.com.
Source: www.cnn.com
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