One Gremlins scene was so divisive, the studio asked theater projectionists to cut it during screenings

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:story of the making of 1984's Gremlins is as fascinating at the film itself, as the team behind it broke all the rule🍌s to make a classic still very much beloved today. 

There are, of course, numerous infamous stories, ⛦from the fact that studio Warner Bros. suggested there were too many Gremlins in the movie to the original script being far more violent than what we eventually saw on-screen.

One particular scene was a point of contention - the moment where Kate (Phoebe Cates) tells Billy𝓰 (Zack Galligan) a tragic story about why she hatജes Christmas, which is linked to the death of her father. Perfectly pitched, the macabre moment is easily one of the most memorable scenes from the movie, but it almost didn't make the cut.

Studio executives were so concerned about how it would play to audiences, they asked director Joe Dante to remoღve it from the film. And when he said no - being backed by producer Steven Spielberg - the studio still decided to persist, taking mat🌱ters into their own hands.

As the filmmaker tells out on Thursday May 23, which features Twisters on the cover, the studio went as far as sending orders out to projectionists asking them to chop it from screenings. Dante revealed during our interview, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the movie: "[The scene] encapsulated🦋 the whole ethos of the picture. There’s a duality of humor and horror but Warner Bros. just hated it. I heard after it was out they were sending instructions to projectionists to see if they could cut it, which thankfully didn’t happen."

All these years later, we now know that Warner Bros. really 🦹didn't have anything to worry about with the scene, which has long remai♔ned a fan-favorite moment.

Gremlins is available to watch now via 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD, and streaming. And you can read more about it and a whole lot else besides in the new issue of Total Film when it hits shelves and digita🍸l newsstands on Thursday, May 23.

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Emily Murray is a former Entertainment Editor of GamesRadar+, once responsible for overseeing all the online content f𓆏or Total Film and SFX magazine. Emily has previously worked for the BBC, Zavvi, UNILAD, Yahoo, Digital Spy and more. When Emily isn't writing about film and TV, she can be found cuddling her cat on the sofa, likely bingeing New Girl for the millionth time (Nick Miller is the love of my life). You can also find her waxing lyrical about Christopher Nolan on a podcast dedicated to his filmography.