Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to a special episode of The Important Cinema Club.

A few weeks ago, we talked about the filmmaker Lizzie Borden, director of Born in Flames and Working Girls.

And on that episode, we talked about a film that she's credited with directing in 1992 called Love Crimes, starring Sean Young.

And after the episode was released, Lizzie Borden actually reached out to us through email

and offered to set the record straight of what actually happened around the making of love

crimes.

It's a difficult subject for her, and it's a big honor that she chose Justin and myself to

talk about it with.

If we could just start right from the beginning and ask you, how did love crimes come about? How did you get to that project? Well, there was a script by Alan Moyle that I really like a lot. And it didn't go to Meramax right away. There was a company called Sovereign. And I think for a while, you know, DiLorentis had it. But then

Harvey Weinstein, Merrimax got involved and they got involved because they wanted to do a film

with Sean Young, period. So Sean was not my choice, actually. Harvey had met her apparently

in some other, in some meeting, just a general meeting,

and he decided he wanted to make a film with her. So when he got this script, he decided that

this was the project. I don't think she read it. And I don't think she read it until we started

shooting. But what actually happened with the script was that by the time we were ready to shoot,

Harvey decided he wanted a completely different script.

He wanted some kind of revenge thriller instead of what we were intending to do with the script.

What happened was that there had been a rewrite, but then Harvey completely changed his

mind about what we wanted, so we ended up starting the film with no script, with a completely,

completely changed his mind on what he wanted.

And it was in Atlanta before the first. He completely changed his mind on what he wanted.

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