The Sweatbox FINALLY Gets Released!

MouseMan · #1 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 01:07 AM

The Sweatbox Finally Gets Released!

Trudie Styler and John-Paul Davidson's documentary film account of the musician Sting's trying experience of working with the Walt Disney Company will get its world premiere at this year's Toronto Film Festival, after hiding on a shelf for two years.

This controversial behind-the-scenes documentary describes how Disney axed six songs penned by the UK singer-songwriter from The Emperor's New Groove, and should include footage of Sting receiving the phone call informing him that the songs had been cut.

"I'm not a particularly easy person to call and say, 'We're not using your songs' and I didn't make them feel any easier about it," Sting recalled back in 2000, when The Sweatbox was then expected to premiere on the Groove DVD itself. "At first, I was angry and perturbed. Then I wanted some vengeance. We couldn't use the songs in this new film because the characters they were written for didn't exist anymore."

His dark mood hardly brightened when Disney asked him to pen two new tunes for the reworked cartoon. "It was hard on him. There's no question," admitted producer Randy Fullmer.

Can't wait to have this one out in the general public's eye!

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MouseMan · #2 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 05:10 AM

Anyone here in Toronto?

MickeysGirl · #3 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 05:18 AM

:mEars: I would love to see that! :mEars:

Eddie Rabbit · #4 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 08:41 AM

Me too!
Guess Disney tried to make it up with Sting by overcrediting him in the movie...

MouseMan · #5 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 06:18 PM

It's a rather shocking documentary! Shows everything...warts and all!

Eddie Rabbit · #6 (**permalink**) 08-10-2002, 07:53 AM

Good!!

MouseMan · #7 (**permalink**) 08-10-2002, 09:58 AM

That's why it wasn't included on the DVD! The Disney suits got VERY uncomfortabnle with the honesty of Sting's reactions to their decisions,etc!

BTW- It's a GREAT documentary, if you like these kinds of things!!!

Eddie Rabbit · #8 (**permalink**) 08-10-2002, 01:43 PM

Of course we do!!

But I still think that Sting gets WAAAAY to much credit for his contributions to the final film

!

MouseMan · #9 (**permalink**) 08-10-2002, 05:55 PM