Much buzz for Sex movie
2008-05-06 17:49
New York - Will Sex in the City have a Death in the City? It's been a persistent rumour in cyberspace as the buzz kicks into overdrive for the film opening in the US later this month.
If you wanted the rumor to remain in play, stop reading now.
But director Michael Patrick King was ready to free us from some of our worst fears - namely, that Mr Big, Carrie Bradshaw's long-time, on-and-off love played by Chris Noth, would somehow kick the bucket.
"Kill Mr Big? I would have been chased around the planet by women with torches," said King, who also wrote the film and produced it along with its star, Sarah Jessica Parker.
Edge and pathos and melodrama
Actually, the idea of Mr Big's death was pitched to King early on, the director said in an interview. And it's true, he was aiming for some edge and pathos and melodrama in his script.
Just not that much edge, pathos or melodrama.
"I did want an emotional roller-coaster," King said. "But my ultimate target was to make our 'girl friends' - in other words our audience - happy.
"And I don't think Mr. Big dying would make them happy."
Naughty speculation
The death rumor led to some naughty speculation. One of the naughtiest: New York Magazine suggested that Charlotte, the pretty and perky Park Avenue socialite, could be killed in a freak tennis accident.
So does anybody die? No plot spoilers here.
But King, whose movie opens in late May, offered this answer: "It's a summer movie. Why would I want to kill anyone?"
- AP