Oliver Stone?s Savages: Why Uma Thurman?s Scenes Were Cut

The adaptation process is always a tricky one, but Oliver Stone had to make some especially tough choices in editing his big-screen version of Don Winslow?s Savages ? and as a result, scenes with Uma Thurman, one of his cast?s biggest names, were left on the cutting room floor.

Paring down the book to tell the tale of two Southern California weed growers (Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson) going commando to get their kidnapped girlfriend (Blake Lively) back from the Mexican cartel, Stone (who adapted Winslow?s novel with Shane Salerno and the author) had to leave certain material out; at a rambling two-plus hour run time, it?s already crowded with languid scenes and a deep line-up of characters.

Thurman joined the cast last year and shot scenes playing the Laguna Beach-dwelling mother of Lively?s rich hippie girl O (short for Ophelia). The character, a frequently absent multiple divorcee, is mentioned in the final cut but ultimately was snipped out in the name of ruthless editing. (There goes that Pulp Fiction Travolta reunion.)

?Oh we cut a lot; the book is one hundred and twenty scenes. I think we only in a movie have 30 scenes to play,? Stone told journalists in Los Angeles of the sections of the novel whittled down and excised in the adaptation process. ?We had to make decisions in script, we made decisions in the editing, we had to consolidate so much and there's so many things different in the movie than the book, you have to read the book to understand that.?

?We have some good deleted scenes that you'll see one day that are fun, but they had to go,? he continued. Also apparently left on the cutting room floor…

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