The Warriors Movie Site Forum

I ran across an article in The Fader Magazine dated 10/03/2005(online at www.thefader.com/blog/articles/ 2005/10/03/new-york-mythology) which many of you might already have read. It's an interview with: Walter Hill, writer and director Craig R Baxley, stunt coordinator Michael Beck, played Swan of T...

They probably hadn't finished editing when the trailer was made so a lot of small bits here and there are probably in there that didn't make the final cut. Yes, this is true, as I mentioned in a post somewhere before. The trailer company in those days of actual celluloid got a complete b&w copy of ...

you asked,"Regarding the Furies fight scene, do you recall the deleted footage? There is a scene in the theatrical trailer where, as Swan runs up to the rest of the Furies, one of them turns around and spins a bat out from behind his back, kung fu style. I always wondered in that scene if Snow had a...

You ask, "Is there any footage of Something happening to ajax after he gets arrested!? Any more footage of cleon???" No, Ajax is busted in the park and that's it for him. Cleon gets it at the rally and that's all for him. Really, what you saw in the movie was all there was, except for the daylight m...

you ask "of course there's stuff that got cut, and probably a million feet of film that went by the wayside" Lost forever, I assume. Even Walter Hill didn't add any new footage from the old negative of Warriors, just artwork. The workprint and negative were put in a vault somewhere in 1980. Paramoun...

Were you ever on set or just in the cutting room? Since they shot nights I got to the set quite a lot. Most memorable: Riverside Park where they were shooting the fight with the Baseball Furies. When I saw that I knew the movie was in overdrive. In response to another question, though, I don't think...

quick note. question was, "was stuff on the cutting room floor?" Okay, first an editor puts together the movie. French for editing is "montage," which means building. So before you get to edit "out" any material, first you have to put it all together to make it sing. That's the first part of the edi...

quick note. question was, "was stuff on the cutting room floor?" Okay, first an editor puts together the movie. French for editing is "montage," which means building. So before you get to edit "out" any material, first you have to put it all together to make it sing. That's the first part of the edi...

How many hours is that and does a scene with Swan throwing a knife in the boardwalk at the start exist. let's see, a reel of 900 ft. is roughly 10 minutes. So we had in the neighborhood of 30hrs. of footage for a ninety minute movie. Not so uncommon nowadays for an action flick. But MUCH easier to h...

A question that is often asked is whether there were any other scenes cut from the movie (other than those on the extra scenes page). Wow -- the extra scenes page brings back memories. Actually, most of those scenes were added to the TV version becuase, when they took out most of the fight footage, ...

You asked, "How much film actually existed before the cutting started?" Of course, I started editing the moment shooting began (actually a day later, when stuff came out of the lab). I would cut (edit) material to show Walter and Larry and Frank on Sundays (their day off) when they came to the editi...

Tom Waites had a bad attitude during filming, and it threatened to infect the other actors. It was decided to alter the plot and have him die by being thrown under a subway train, as filmed. In the rest of the filming a lookalike was used (I think it was Tom's stunt double), shooting always being do...

Great to see such enthusiasm for a movie we threw together hastily back in '79. I had a crushing amount of footage to deal with (we nicknamed Walter Hill "the blanket" because he covered everything . :) After a while cutting in NYC, Freeman Davies came from LA to help me out, then Billy Weber joined...