One deleted scene from 300 was too much even for Zack Snyder:
"One thing, we didn't put it back in the movie, but it's a deleted scene. In battle four, or three, which is the sort of kitchen sink sequence, where they're fighting everything, you know, the whole ridiculous elephants and rhinos part.
"There was also a... these giants that had sort of elves riding on their backs. They were like these little archers with arrows and they were shooting them and then these giants had their arms lopped off and had little hooks on the ends of their arms and they were lumbering across the battlefield and they get their legs chopped off and one falls and the little elf kind of falls off and rolls.
"But I think it's actually Tom who leaps onto the dead body of the giant and spears this little elf and it's really sad. It was even too much for me. I got to admit it.
"I said, you know what, no, this is wrong."
[EXCLUSIVE--#DirectorsCut] From "Menace II Society" to "The Continental: From the World of John Wick," Albert Hughes has proven to be one of the best in Hollywood! 🎬
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#TheContinental director Albert Hughes embraced the style of the #JohnWick franchise, but wants to temper expectations: "It was quite easy for me to adapt to the John Wick style because that’s something I would be into anyway. But I’m not Chad Stahelski" https://t.co/4MG4r9XONn
#TheContinental director Albert Hughes breaks down this exclusive scene revealing the consequences of crossing the high table.
Watch Part 1 September 22 on Peacock.
@Hughes2Society - Here’s hoping that Criterion releases DEAD PRESIDENTS since they put out MENACE II SOCIEY. Love you work sir! Seeing the title “ Directed by The Hughes Brothers” changed my life and honestly until Menace I had no idea you can make films with your brother.
James Cameron once said Zack Snyder is one of his cinematic inspirations.
"I certainly have studied the masters, you know David Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, you know everybody.
"Directors that continue to inspire me, Ridley Scott, I mean I'll go to see any Ridley Scott movie, even the ones that bomb to me are great because of the fabric of the filmmaking, you know just the way he sees, the way he places the camera and so on.
"And I'm out there going to school every day. I think any good filmmaker is out there going to school. I'm also inspired by, these are established filmmakers now, but I remember being very inspired by them when they first kind of broke on the scene like Zack Snyder and Robert Rodriguez, guys that were just creating their own new cinematic language, you know. So I can be inspired by somebody whose name I don't even know." #ZackSnyder #JamesCameron