The Golden Child (1986) - Trivia - IMDb (original) (raw)
The Golden Child
Although the Golden Child is referred to as a boy throughout the film, J.L. Reate is actually a girl.
George Miller was Eddie Murphy's first choice for director. He turned it down because Murphy kept him waiting at a meeting for four hours.
The film was intended as a serious adventure drama, with Mel Gibson in the lead role. After Gibson turned the film down and Eddie Murphy replaced him, the script was rewritten as a partial comedy.
In interview for Fangoria #113, Charles Dance explained how movie was drastically changed by Paramount after the first test screening.
"Initially, The Golden Child was a very interesting script with lot of resonances, but Paramount basically chickened out. When they first screened it, it was a very different sort of film for Eddie Murphy. Paramount took too much notice of the preview audience's unease about the unfamiliarity of Eddie's character. They had gotten to know him so well through Beverly Hills Cop (1984) that they wanted the character to be much more like that. So the studio went back and reshot a lot of footage of Eddie doing "Eddie Murphy-isms", and put them into the picture. Then they took out a really sumptuous, weird and beautiful score by John Barry, and replaced it with something more funky. So basically what you got was Beverly Hills Cop in Tibet."
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By what name was The Golden Child (1986) officially released in India in Hindi?