re: #59 Sol Berdinowitz

As I understand, GC bombed because they did not edit out enough religious references - it was hyped as being antireligious and that turned off Middle America, which was in the throes of Bush when it came out.

Remember how “Alexander” bombed when everybody called it “too gay”?

And the film biography of Darwin released in 2009 did not even find a US distributor, I guess they all decided it would not be worth the “controversy” over his “disputed theory” of Evolution…

I’m not sure it mattered how much they edited out actually, the religious right has had a hardon about the books for a long time. The fans like the books as they are and were turned off by the edits that were made. Also, editing much of anything out in GC means that by the time they’d have gotten to the final film they’d have had nothing to shoot, so they were painting themselves into a corner from the beginning. I think the fundies were just pissed because the daemons were still called daemons. Total knee jerk.