It's the romantic comedy that helped propel Julia Roberts and Richard Gere to super-stardom and made viewers everywhere believe in fairy tale endings. But Pretty Woman could have been a much darker tale, according to former Disney studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg, talking at a Hearst Tower Q&A in New York, the Daily Mail reports. "As a script, Pretty Woman was an R-rated movie about a hooker on Hollywood Boulevard," Page Six reported. "By the way, in the original version - it's pretty dark - I think she died of an overdose. Starring Richard Gere as a wealthy businessman and Julia Roberts as a hooker who fall in love against all the odds, it was released in 1990.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 06, 2017 20:31 UTC