Pretty Woman: a timeless romantic comedy
Released on French screens in November 1990, Pretty Woman tells the story of a wealthy businessman, Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) who meets a prostitute, Vivian (Julia Roberts), one evening on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. After paying for it one night, he finally decides to call it quits a deal so she could pretend to be his girlfriend for an entire week.
These two beings who were not meant to meet will gradually learn to discover each other and fall under each other’s charm until this famous happy ending where Edward declares his love for her like a fairytale prince.
The original ending was supposed to be tragic
Before becoming the cult romantic comedy we all know, Pretty Woman was a very dark drama called “3,000” (in relation to the sum of the 3000 dollar deal between Edward and Vivian ed.) and it didn’t resemble a fairy tale at all.
During an interview with the magazine Variety in 2019, Julia Roberts had in fact declared that the original screenplay she had read and signed by JF Lawton hardly offered a happy ending for her character since Edward threw Vivian out of his car at the end of the week:
He threw the money at her and left her all alone on a squalid street
In addition to that, during a meeting for the film’s 25th anniversarythe team revealed that the character of Kit de Luca (Vivan’s best friend, ed.) he died of an overdose. It’s not all very happy…
Disney saved the film (and Julia Roberts’ career)
After the studio that was supposed to produce the film went bankrupt just days after Julia Roberts landed the role, Disney took the script and completely overhauled it. under the leadership of Garry Marshallwhich did not fail to surprise the main interested party:
I didn’t understand how a script like that could end up at Disney. I even wondered if they would make a cartoon about it.
Luckily for Julia Roberts, Garry Marshall agreed to meet with her to present the new screenplay titled Pretty Woman rather than repeat auditions :
I think he agreed to meet me because he was an amazing human being and thought that since I was auditioning for the first time, it would be okay to see me at least once.
And History can only prove him right!
Source: Cine Serie
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