![]() I heard rumors they were thinking of hiring me back, but that never happened," Lawton added. "Garry Marshall had a bunch of writers punching up material, one-liner people. I took out the fact that he had a girlfriend he was cheating on with her and a few other things, and Disney's reaction was that I'd gone too far, lightened it up too much." Lawton was fired and another writer, Stephen Metcalfe, was hired to do a fourth draft, and Robert Garland for a fifth, and Barbara Benedek for a sixth. "I did two drafts that made it more of a love story - they got together at the end. "Garry was a little nervous about making the ending too upbeat, because the script was well respected in Hollywood and he didn't want to be accused of being the guy who turned it into fluff," remembered Lawton, who was asked to do another draft of the script. Garry Marshall had just directed Beaches (1988) for Touchstone. After a bidding war, the rights to 3000 were sold to Touchstone for $17 million. He and Arnon Milchan got involved and managed to interest both Universal and Touchstone Films (a division of Disney). Goldstein still had the rights to the script, and Roberts had no films lined up.Įnter Steve Reuther, a producer who liked the script. " As Roberts was falling in love with the character of Vivian, Vestron went out of business. ![]() My reaction to her was a balance of intrigue and fear - the same balance I felt toward Daisy in Mystic Pizza and Shelby in Steel Magnolias. Roberts, despite her description of the original screenplay "chased it down like a dog. Gary Goldstein, a producer at Vestron thought Julia Roberts would be ideal as Vivian after seeing her in Mystic Pizza (1988) and sent the script to her agent, Elaine Goldsmith. It was bought by Vestron Pictures to be shot as a low-budget film using the original script. Roberts described the original script as "a really dark and depressing, horrible, terrible story about two horrible people and my character was this drug addict, a bad-tempered, foulmouthed, ill-humored, poorly educated hooker who had this weeklong experience with a foulmouthed, ill-tempered, bad-humored, very wealthy, handsome but horrible man and it was just a grisly, ugly story about these two people." The author concurred, "the original story of 3000 was basically like the movie Pretty Woman except for the ending - he didn't fall in love with her in the original script, and she does end up back on the street." Lawton, a 28 year-old film trailer editor and aspiring screenwriter had directed scenes from the script for the Sundance Institute (Robert Redford's incubator for aspiring filmmakers in Utah). Vivian (Roberts) is a drug-addicted hooker who is rescued for a week by Edward (Gere) and then returned to the streets. Like Cinderella, she gets her fella in the end. Prince Charming is a businessman and Cinderella is a street walker. Share Pretty Woman (1990), directed by Garry Marshall and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere was a modern-day Cinderella story.
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