Babylon A.D. Joins the List of Movies Getting the Shaft

Just yesterday, I did a post about how The Midnight Meat Train got screwed over by Lionsgate Studios by being dumped in only 100 one dollar theaters on August 1st. Vin Diesel's latest Sci-Fi film Babylon A.D. can join the list of films such as the aforementioned The Midnight Meat Train and Punisher: War Zone that are being mistreated and re-tooled for the worst by their studios. 

Fox Studios, which has been on a real negativity run lately (the Watchmen law suit; the Wolverine sabotage), changed the movie so much that even its director Mathieu Kassovitz thinks it sucks.

“I should have chosen a studio that has guts,” Kassovitz told AMC. “Fox was just trying to get a PG-13 movie. I’m ready to go to war against them, but I can’t because they don’t give a sh*t. …I don’t see how people who went through all these amazing blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Iron Man this summer will take [Babylon A.D.].”

When reached for a comment on the film, Vin Diesel stated:

“Am I even in the movie any more, or am I on the cutting room floor?” the actor joked.

Nice job, Fox. What exactly was the point of all this? I've seen pretty much zero advertising for this movie (and what little I have seen is awful) and even the director and lead actor have come out and said that the film is a train wreck. Oh yeah, and it's sitting at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes right now. I just don't get it. 

I stated that Fox was my least favorite studio at the moment in my Wolverine Might Suck article but this news only confirms it. No, I wasn't exactly looking forward to this movie or anything but it really is sickening to read news of someone's vision and talent being cut down by a studio that obviously doesn't care about anything logical or beneficial anymore.

Source: /Film