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“.and yet another movie he directed and in which he starred, “Backtrack” with Jodie Foster, may eventually be released, although not if Hopper has anything to say about it. Details regarding Hopper’s lawsuit, such as when exactly it was filed or what its precise demands and conditions were, are unknown. In retaliation, Hopper begins a ‘lawsuit’ against Vestron, with the intention of taking his name off the picture and, if possible, preventing the release of the revised version. Sometime either during or after the filming of Flashback, Hopper becomes aware that Vestron had recut Backtrack in his absence, even cutting the picture’s original celluloid negative. In addition, they begin shopping Backtrack - along with multiple other completed or almost-finished titles - to other potential distributors.ġ Without a distributor, Backtrack cannot be released, effectively annulling plans for its September premiere. What is clear, however, is that Vestron had to have stopped working around July 12, 1989.Īt this point, the company had essentially gone bankrupt, forcing its executives to shut down distribution and put the company up for sale. It is not clear precisely how much time Vestron spent on re-editing and re-scoring the film, the revised version of which ends up being 99 minutes long. I assume that another filmmaker was needed for reshoots as Hopper could not participate at the time. * I’ve found, unfortunately, no accounts of Vestron’s side of the story, so much of this is based on Hopper’s own comments throughout various interviews. In addition to having the picture recut and changing its score, Vestron commissions someone to reshoot the picture’s beginning and ending.* While Hopper is away, Vestron - allegedly unhappy with the cut Hopper turned in - begins revising the movie without his participation in an effort to make it more commercial. Franco Amurri) with Kiefer Sutherland for Paramount Pictures in Colorado around May 27. Hopper turns in a final cut of about 2 hours - possibly with completed post-production elements, though this is not confirmed - to production and distribution company Vestron Pictures shortly before going off to begin shooting his scenes in the comedic thriller Flashback (February 1990, dir.
Table of Contentsĭennis Hopper, now in the midst of a career resurgence, has finished work on Backtrack, which is expected to be released theatrically around September of that year. In the process, I hope to discredit some popular misconceptions about the picture, as well as demonstrate how much control distributors have over what versions of a movie audiences can access.
While Catchfire credited the fictional Alan Smithee, Backtrack retained the name of Dennis Hopper.
In this article, I am going to delve into the picture’s early years, explaining why it began to circulate during the 1990s in two different cuts, each with its own title and credited director. The resulting movie would go on to have a fascinating, convoluted revision history closely tied to that of its various distributors, including Vestron Pictures, Carolco, Artisan Entertainment, and Lionsgate. In addition to directing, Hopper also had a starring role in it as a killer named Milo, who is sent to dispatch Anne, only to fall in love with her. In the Summer of 1988, director Dennis Hopper shot a bizarre crime thriller about a conceptual artist named Anne (Jodie Foster), who goes on the run after witnessing a mob hit.
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