True Story Behind ‘Pretty Woman’ — Gary W. Goldstein
Gary W. Goldstein, Producer/Author/Instructor: At that time Michael Keaton was the lead actor. Well, the deal went awry. I don’t know the details, but the deal went awry so production was sidelined…
Film Courage: What was the original version of Pretty Woman?
Gary: The original version was titled Three Thousand spelled out which was the number of dollars that Edward [Richard Gere] pays Vivian [Julia Roberts] for her companionship for the week.
It was a drama, it was not a picture where boy and girl end up together and in some ways it was a much more realistic story.
And I think it was very reflective of the writer’s…sort of the world that he lived in and the way he was feeling about things at the time.
But there was something undeniably…here’s what I would say about it. Jonathan [J. F. Lawton, screenwriter] when he was in film school he kept writing these very complex really interesting leading women characters and I remember one of our early conversations before we started working together, he let on that one of his professors (presumably a male as I recall) wagged his finger at him…
