This is what Rob said in the EW interview:
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Steve’s been part of every single step of this movie. And the truth is, we’ve been incredibly faithful to the original
“I’m actually really impressed Disney’s doing this film, because it’s very brave. I don’t feel we’ve watered it down in any way, shape, or form
As for the songs and scenes that some fans worried about—the Baker’s Wife’s tryst, the creep-tastic Wolf, Rapunzel’s death-by-giant-foot—Marshall promises, “All of those things are in the film. ‘Any Moment’ is in the film…Rapunzel’s end is still pretty dark, it’s just a different kind of dark, and it’s just as harrowing, and just as sad.
“Rainbows,” a duet between the Baker and his wife, was originally written by Sondheim for a scrapped film version of Woods in the ’90s—but contrary to other reports, Marshall says it was never intended to be in this movie. Sondheim wrote another new song specifically for Streep that was filmed but ultimately cut—as Marshall puts it, “It was beautiful and spectacular, but it was very clear, as good as the song was, that [the movie] was stronger without.”
As it happens, Marshall and his team did not re-shoot; rather, they spent three days shooting new material that had been cut and re-added to the script after Disney screened the movie. (The two scenes in question are character flashbacks.)
Updated On: 8/14/14 at 01:25 PM