“Babylon A.D.’s” Mathieu Kassovitz Trashes His Own Movie

Nerds everywhere are not particularly happy with 20th Century Fox right now, considering their attempt to block the release of next year’s supreme nerd party film Watchmen (and we won’t bother mentioning the Fantastic Four movies). Mathieu Kassovitz, director of Babylon A.D., due out this weekend, outright despises the studio, claiming their incessant interference forced what should’ve been an interesting study of the future of the geopolitical arena into a dumb exercise in violence.

“I’m very unhappy with the film. I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn’t respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience.”

“It’s pure violence and stupidity. The movie is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the characters… instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24.”

“Fox was sending lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots. They made everything difficult from A to Z. I should have chosen a studio that has guts. 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 s–t.”

Kassovitz says he doesn’t entirely hate the finished film - a scene here and there and a decent energy, he likes - but he says “I had something much better in my hands but I just wasn’t allowed to work.” His words speak for themselves.

Watch the trailer for Babylon A.D., and recognize the Requiem for a Dream score in it.