Calling it a “disappointment,” director Alexandre Aja says he won’t be showing R-rated footage of a wet t-shirt contest that turns into a piranha feeding frenzy at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con.
“It doesn’t make sense to go to an event like Comic-Con and not show what the movie is,” Aja told the NY Times. “It’s frustrating because I was so excited to show this at Comic-Con—I made the movie for that crowd.”
Aja had hoped to bring clips to San Diego, but was told that the scenes he’d planned to screen were too graphic. He was given the choice of either snipping the video to PG-13 level or holding his planned panel discussion without letting the audience see any of it.
But Aja found a third way—skipping the Comic-Con facilities completely. He’ll instead make his presentation, explicit footage and all, at the UA Horton Plaza, a theater near the San Diego Convention Center, at 10 p.m. on Thursday.
"It doesn't make sense to go to an event like Comic-Con and not show what the movie is,"
. . . isn't it about Piranhas? Do they wear T-Shirts? . . . 'cause if they do, they would per force be wet.
So wait... he's not going to be "at comic con", but he'll be in San Diego, near the convention, during the convention, doing what the headline says he's not going to be doing at the convention? So the headline is technically true, but grossly misleading.