I'm not saying Fox wasn't involved in anyway but from what Josh described the movie as since the VERY START of production, the film described then is basically what we got as the final product

Even with all of Josh Tranks interviews, especially the Kevin Smith podcast one he praised the studio and Fox. Defending the changes he made to the series.

Plus he got wasted on set mostly apparently and even made Kate Mara cry.

An article about studios completely ruining movies, and no mention of it's long LONG history of completely BUTCHERING Asian movies for their western release, and in many cases, they even made sure it would subsequently be butchered in EVERY release, world-wide, due to western studios buying up the worldwide distribution rights...

That's disappointing.

Going as far back as Kurosawa's classics (probably even beyond that btw...), Hollywood has taken it upon itself to take these foreign movies, decide (for whatever reason), that these movies would be 'too foreign' for their 'western audience'(whatever that means, but apparently it usually means HUGE cuts and often replacing the original soundtrack with some rap-music, as well as (of course) dubbing the foreign voices into overexaggerated 'foreign accent' English dubs...

From Kurosawa's movies to later countless (literally) Hong Kong movies, as well as Thai, Japanese and Korean movies (although Japanese and Korean luckily often seem to be treated with a bit more respect so the butchering happens less often, also because many of those movies fall into the 'art-house' genre, instead of action/crime/martial-arts etc, pretty much every great Asian movie has been nearly destroyed by western studios, with not 1 example of a western cut actually IMPROVING upon the original cut.

The article mentions Once upon a Time in China having lost 90 minutes of footage, which is, of course, a DISGRACE. But John Woo's Red Cliff actually lost 140 minutes(!!!) That's more than two hours, because the western studios decides to just take Red Cliff pt 1 (146 minutes) and pt 2 (142 (minutes) and slice that into 1 movie, 148 minutes long.

A recent masterpiece, The Grandmaster, by Wong Kar Wai, had a great reception in it's original form, but again, the western release was HEAVILY cut, music was replaced, and consequently, reviews for that western cut were a whole lot less positive. I was lucky to have seen the movie uncut in Hong Kong when it came out, and I thought it was a stunning piece of ART, so obviously I'm extremely upset the west will probably never see that cut, unless they import or download an uncut version.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Asian movies which have been scarred, damaged, butchered, raped, etc etc like that. And that's just the movies that they released. They also tend to buy the rights for release, then sit on them for years, perhaps not releasing them ever.

And again, there isn't a single example of any of those studio-imposed cuts that actually resulted in a better end-product.

So if you're going to do an article about movies being destroyed by meddling studio execs, foreign movies, like Asian cinema, certainly deserve at least a mention.