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Final Anna film won't be shown
10/02/2007 08:34 - (SA)
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| In this undated photo provided by Edgewood Studios, Anna Nicole Smith is shown in a scene from the movie Illegal Aliens with actor Woody Keppel. (Edgewood Studios, AP) |
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Montpelier, Vermont - Anna Nicole Smith's film finale, a campy B-grade movie called Illegal Aliens she helped bankroll, was supposed to be a comedy.
Whether it will be received that way now is unclear, though, says director David Giancola, who has cancelled three screenings in the wake of her death.
"I don't think it's appropriate, based on the content of the film, to be screening it at this time," he said on Friday.
"We don't know what happened to Anna. The press speculation is endless. We didn't think people would find it funny.
"It's a comedy and it's her making fun of her public persona. So much of it is riffing on Anna and her riffing on herself, I just don't think, with her passing, it's appropriate to screen it so quickly after her death."
Smith, 39, was found unconscious in a Hollywood, Florida, casino-hotel on Thursday and later declared dead. A post mortem was performed on Friday.
Smith, son credited as producers
The former Playboy playmate, whose previous screen credits include The Hudsucker Proxy and Naked Gun 33 1/3, filmed her last movie in Vermont in 2005.
In the 96-minute Illegal Aliens, she plays one of three extraterrestrials who fight an intergalactic terrorist.
Edgewood Studios bills it as Charlie's Angels goes sci-fi". One of her co-stars is professional wrestler Joanie Laurer.
Once Smith agreed to do the movie, she also agreed to invest in it, but Giancola would not say how much.
Smith and her son were credited as associate producers, said Giancola.
A screening planned for Saturday night in Johnstown, New York, and two more next week in Vermont have been cancelled. The release date for the movie has not been set.
"We had planned to release it in April and were making preparations. But right now, it's such an early stage, we just don't know. We're all kind of in shock right now," said Giancola, 37.
He said he did not know whether Anna Nicole's sudden death would ramp up interest in Illegal Aliens or not.
"The public interest in her is so great, in everything she does. I don't quite understand it," said Giancola.
- AP
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