{"id":13903,"date":"2015-11-26T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2021-03-22T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:26:20","slug":"exploring-brian-helgelands-payback-a-tale-of-two-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13903","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Brian Helgeland’s “Payback,” a Tale of Two Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at Film School Rejects<\/a><\/strong>, Jack Giroux<\/strong> weighs in on which version of Payback<\/strong><\/em> is the best in his piece: Exploring Brian Helgeland’s Payback<\/em>, a Tale of Two Movies<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Award-winning screenwriter and director Brian Helgeland<\/strong> was fired from the production of the Mel Gibson<\/strong> starrer Payback<\/strong><\/em> when the studio and Gibson<\/strong> felt Helgeland’s<\/strong> version was too dark. \u00a0Gibson<\/strong> ended up directing the re-shoots and it was his version that was released to theaters. \u00a0Years later Helgeland’s<\/strong> movie was released on dvd.<\/p>\n

I’ve got both versions in my collection, so it should be clear that I dig both takes on the film. \u00a0If I had to choose one, I’d go for the theatrical release [by a hair] but thankfully, since both versions rest in my collection, that isn’t a choice I’ll ever have to make.<\/p>\n

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Over at Film School Rejects, Jack Giroux weighs in on which version of Payback is the best in his piece:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26924,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions\/26924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}