Oliver Stone talks Alexander Failures

"In some way," Stone told Variety, "I failed to communicate his story properly to that audience. I still think it's a beautiful movie, but Alexander deserved better than I gave him."

Moritz Borman told Variety that despite the issues they wont lose money on this film, but future films will be harder to get made.

"We will not lose a penny. But if the picture doesn't work in some foreign territories, (distributors) will take the hit. ...If the picture makes over $100 million foreign, most will be OK. But if the picture fares the way it did here, they will lose.

"Having a picture that underperformed as badly as this one did here hurts in other ways," Borman says. "Next time we go to Warner Bros. with a picture like this, they might say no. Those foreign buyers who lost will be looking for a rebate next time they come back to the table."

Oliver also took time to talk about the homosexual angle of the movie, which has upset many viewers, I know we have had many many reviews submitted to us talking about this angle and how it bothered them.

"They called him Alexander the Gay. That's horribly discriminatory, but the film simply did not open in the South, in the Bible Belt. There was clear resistance to the homosexuality.

"If I could go back, I'd have put events in linear order and limited the voiceovers. I'd have gotten the film to 2½ hours and taken out the homosexuality for the U.S. market and for countries sensitive to such things, like Korea or Greece. Kids weren't comfortable with men who hugged, a king who cries and expresses tenderness," Stone said.

source: ropeofsilicon