Writer Daniel Waters told Topless Robot that the original script called for Slater's character to successfully blow up the high school and then the film would depict the deceased students at a prom in heaven.ĭirector Michael Lehmann told Broadly that studio executives refused to make the movie unless the ending was changed. Many viewers already felt the ending was pretty bleak (Slater's character blows himself up after his attempt to bomb the school was thwarted) but the original ending could've been different. Teenage angst comes with a body count in the 1988 pitch-black comedy "Heathers." Winona Ryder and Christian Slater star as a teenage couple who murder their popular classmates and cover it up by making their deaths look like suicides. "Actually," he says, "I know exactly what I did.One potential ending of "Heathers" involved a prom in heaven. It's about parents and kids, and I've never seen anything like it - I don't know what I did!" "I don't want to talk about it yet, but it's going to be something. "Wait until you see this one!" Clark exults.
Fortunately, Lions Gate are such good people that they're releasing it as is.
But in "Bully," I didn't even shoot because I was supposed to have an R rating. You never show 'the gun' - the penis." I tell 'em, in my next movie, Ken Park, there'll be more penises than you guys can swallow. My old girlfriends are always calling me up and complaining: "You never have any frontal nudity. "If you show male frontal nudity, you never get an R.
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It's rumoured that Korine sold the script to Larry Clark and cinematographer Ed Lachman for a series of original photographs and $2,000 Then, "allegedly," Clark and Lachman had fallen out, and no one knew if the project would ever be made. Talk of the film, speculations as to it's production, have been going on since '96. Ken Park is a feature Korine wrote about a year before Kids, it's a narrative based story, set in a small town community, that follows the exploits of a group of teenagers, their relationships with each other and their parents. This time, he vowed, "everybody's naked.'' Ken Park, a movie about five families living in suburban California, was going to be Clark's first movie, but it was left on hold when the opportunity to make Kids came along.Ĭlark said he is aiming for an R rating for Ken Park but, ever the provocateur, he told reporters he has also tried to satisfy girlfriends who urged him to be more evenhanded in the film by showing more male nudity than he has in past. It looks like we have financing now, though there's always problems getting these things off the ground." I have a screenplay that Harmony Korine, from Kids, wrote.
This time it's set in California - we'll be shooting on-location somewhere between Bakersfield and Fresno. Hopefully we'll be using real kids and parents as the actors again. So we're gonna go inside the suburbs and meet Kids and their parents and see what's happening in the family. People ask me where the parents are in Kids, I say they're in the next movie. "I'm making a second film, which I hope to start at the end of the year, called "Ken Park" which was going to be my first film, and then Kids came up. No one should have any say so over the script except for the author, at least regarding myself." But after those kind of things you just learn that you don’t want to work with other people. I was very vulnerable at the time, I had no money, so I signed a really bad contract with two different people and each party would own 50 percent of the script, and I have no say so over the script. It was the second script that I had written, and I was like 19 when I wrote it. Ken Park I wrote even before Kids was financed. "Sorry, I was speaking so quickly that I forgot a whole question.