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I wish I could remember if the surviving footage of this sequence was among the bits screened by Darren Gross at a DS Festival I attended sometime around 2005. (I think that was the same occasion when I saw the existing cut of the rejected WB pilot.) I remember a scene where Carlotta brings a breakfast tray to Quentin and Tracy's bedroom (which obviously follows on a scene that's in the regular release cut), the piano scene, and the seance scene. Don't recall this one.
Holding onto the ever more unlikely hope that someday we'll all get to see the restored cut.
You're not the only one who couldn't remember exactly what Darren showed in 2004 in Tarrytown. But the funny thing is that just the other day I came across this topic:Darren's NoDS PresentationAnd thanks to you I now remember.
(And BTW, only a few clips of the '04 pilot were shown in Tarrytown. The entire pilot debuted in LA in '05. )
That's very cool. I don't remembering whispering to the person I was sitting next to. I had forgotten the thing about some stupid exec's vendetta against Grayson. Expletive deleted!
Oddly I read the same thing a few months ago about Majel Barrett. I was watching the first season of Original Series Star Trek and I was reading some stuff fans had compiled online. A couple of the suits really took a personal dislike to Majel and loathed the fact that she played the first mate character in the original pilot. When she returned in the role of Nurse Chapel in the reboot, the same execs loudly complained that they didn't want to see her in there at all. Somehow or other, these imbeciles were overruled.
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I don't remembering whispering to the person I was sitting next to.
I whispered about the scenes, too. I was sitting with Midnite and she mentioned what a shame it was that the presentation was being so rushed that Darren wasn't being allowed to explain about each recovered scene, so, given the fact that I'd reread the script before the Fest so that I'd know what sort of stuff to expect in Darren's presentation, I started explaining each recovered scene as it came up. More than a few people around Midnite and I appreciated it.QuoteI had forgotten the thing about some stupid exec's vendetta against Grayson. Expletive deleted!
Darren mentions that in quite a few of his pieces about NoDS, and I feel the same about it as you do. Carlotta is one of the best things about the film and I can't even begin to imagine it without her. Not to mention it would be very hard to piece together the entire 1810 backstory if all her stuff was cut. But then, having the film make complete sense was hardly any sort of a priority for James Aubrey! (And it seems like history repeated itself a bit considering that to a lesser degree there was a somewhat similar situation with the WB execs who oversaw the Depp/DS film! But that's a whole other discussion that we've had in that film's topics...)
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