GiglidirectorMartin Brestcannot even utter the movie’s name aloud.
“Even the name…
I refer to it as ‘the G movie,'” the filmmaker added.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in ‘Gigli’.Phillip Caruso/Columbia Pictures
“Probably the less said about it the better.”
According to Brest, the movie began very differently from what appeared onscreen. "
I wonder if ever a movie had been changed that much," he said.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at the ‘Gigli’ premiere in 2003.Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
“I’m sure it has in the history of Hollywood, but it was changed so radically…
The themes of the movie were radically different.
The plot was different.
The purpose of the movie was different.
But I can’t escape blame.”
So it’s really a bloody mess that deserved its excoriation."
Giglicenters onBen Affleck’s titular hitman hired by the mob to kidnap the brother of a powerful federal prosecutor.
The film grossed a devastating $7.2 million worldwide.
“So in those ways, it’s a gift.
They wed last summer.)
They want to see that.
More of it!’
And it was just, it was likethatSNLsketch.
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