what happened to the deleted footage
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:37 am
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 The Warriors
Fleet Emerson, asst. to extras casting director Sylvia Fay
David Harris, played Cochise of The Warriors
Jery Hewitt, stuntman and played the lead Baseball Fury
David Patrick Kelly, played Luther of The Rogues
Terrence Michos, played Vermin of The Warriors
James Remar, played Ajax of The Warriors
Deborah Van Valkenburgh, played Mercy
Thomas G. Waites, played Fox of The Warriors
Joel Weiss, played Cropsy, Luther?s sidekick in The Rogues
Sol Yurick, wrote the novel The Warriors
In the session Walter Hill says: "...Whatever [footage] is not in there doesn?t exist anymore. I asked Paramount about that and they went on a big search. They, like a lot of studios, throw out everything that?s not the film. I don?t think there is some great thing that has been lost. I think the best version of the movie is the movie that was the theatrical release." That answers a lot of questions people have had, and have asked me as the movie's editor. Anything else, the daylight scenes from the beginning, should be considered bootleg material from the TV version.
dh
Walter Hill, writer and director
Craig R Baxley, stunt coordinator
Michael Beck, played Swan of The Warriors
Fleet Emerson, asst. to extras casting director Sylvia Fay
David Harris, played Cochise of The Warriors
Jery Hewitt, stuntman and played the lead Baseball Fury
David Patrick Kelly, played Luther of The Rogues
Terrence Michos, played Vermin of The Warriors
James Remar, played Ajax of The Warriors
Deborah Van Valkenburgh, played Mercy
Thomas G. Waites, played Fox of The Warriors
Joel Weiss, played Cropsy, Luther?s sidekick in The Rogues
Sol Yurick, wrote the novel The Warriors
In the session Walter Hill says: "...Whatever [footage] is not in there doesn?t exist anymore. I asked Paramount about that and they went on a big search. They, like a lot of studios, throw out everything that?s not the film. I don?t think there is some great thing that has been lost. I think the best version of the movie is the movie that was the theatrical release." That answers a lot of questions people have had, and have asked me as the movie's editor. Anything else, the daylight scenes from the beginning, should be considered bootleg material from the TV version.
dh