Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez may have found their way back to each other, but they'll never live down the embarrassment of their 2003 flop 'Gigli.'
“Of all the movies that I’ve worked on, I know them inside and out,” Brest said. “I don’t even know what that movie looks like, frankly, because of the manner in which it took shape. Even the name… I refer to it as ‘the G movie.’ Probably the less said about it the better.”
Brest goes on to explain that the film “originally started very differently.” “The themes of the movie were radically different,” he explained. “The plot was different. The purpose of the movie was different. But I can’t escape blame. [But] it’s so weird — I literally don’t remember the movie that was released, because I wasn’t underneath it in the way I was under the hood of all my other movies. So it’s really a bloody mess that deserved its excoriation.
When asked what happened that made the film change so much, Brest confirmed that “extensive” disagreements with himself and the studio caused the production to shut down for eight months. “In the end I was left with two choices: quit or be complicit in the mangling of the movie,” he said. “To my eternal regret I didn’t quit, so I bear responsibility for a ghastly cadaver of a movie. Once key scenes were cut it became like a joke with its punchline removed, endless contortions could never create the illusion that what remained was intended.
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