Schrader, Refn, Cage and Yelchin protest Dying of the Light edits

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Yesterday the first trailer was released for Paul Schrader's DYING OF THE LIGHT, and it actually looks like it might be a decent thriller. But the director isn't happy about losing control over the final cut, and stars Nicolas Cage and Anton Yelchin, and executive producer Nicolas Winding Refn have joined "Team Schrader" as well.

Paul Schrader made a statement about the project yesterday on his Facebook, and also posted a picture showing he has support from Cage, Yelchin and Refn.

We lost the battle. "Dying of the Light," a film I wrote and directed, was taken away from me, redited, scored and mixed without my imput. Yesterday Grindstone (a division of Lionsgate) released the poster and the trailer. They are available on line. Here we are, Nick Cage, Anton Yelchin, Nic Refn and myself, wearing our "non-disparagement" T shirts. The non-disparagement clause in an artist's contract gives the owners of the film the right to sue the artist should the owner deem anything the artist has said about the film to be "derogatory." I have no comment on the film or others connected with the picture.

Yikes. The filmmakers and actors might be silently/not-so-silently protesting DYING OF THE LIGHT, but it's not like it is going to stop the movie from being released, or give control back to Paul Schrader. If anything, people might be more interested in checking it out because of the behind-the-scenes stuff. Are you planning on seeing DYING OF THE LIGHT, even though Paul Schrader, Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin and Nicolas Winding Refn don't want you to watch their new movie?

DYING OF THE LIGHT will hit theaters and VOD on December 5, 2014.