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20 November 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

George Clooney appears to be going through the motions of promoting his upcoming film Solaris, due to open on Nov. 27 (for the Thanksgiving weekend), while at the same time seeming to distance himself from it. In interviews with entertainment reporters, he suggests that the controversy that followed the MPAA's original R rating for the film -- because of two scenes in which he is photographed nude from the rear -- was probably contrived by the studio. "I think that Fox is struggling to find things to get ink on," he told the online SciFi Wire. (The MPAA appeals board subsequently changed the rating to a PG-13.) "It's not that hardcore of a scene. We've seen worse on so many television shows. So it felt like that was one of those thing where they're going ... 'How do we sell this?'" Earlier in the week the New York Post quoted Clooney as saying, "This film won't probably open great, and probably will have a modest run. ... It doesn't appeal to the masses." It doesn't appeal to some fans of the original book by Stanislaw Lem and the original movie by Andrei Tarkovsky, either. On the film's website, one message from a Tarkovsky fan reads: "I hope everyone involved in this remake dies a slow, miserable death from a combination of every painful disease known to man."

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