River Phoenix’ last film ‘Dark Blood’ was never released after he died
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- The incredible and thrilling inside story about River Phoenix' sudden death and the following legal war and other intrigues considering ‘Dark Blood’ - one of the most extraordinary in filmmaking - will be told in the documentary 'Never Give Up', which sound designer and Sluizers collaborator Harold Jalving is about to release in the fall of 2016. Sluizer passed away in 2014 at the age of 82. His last wish was that the movie will be shown to the audience someday. Therefore, Jalving’s documentary has two missions: to tell the extraordinary story of 'Dark Blood' and get the film released as well.
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Judy Davies should be ashamed of herself iv heard the story about how she treated river like shit on the bottom of her shoe. people blame johnny depp and red hot chill peppers flea.but come on everyone let river down everyone had there part to play.
Donna Wilkins .
Donna Wilkins Wait wdym like I heard that she made him uncomfortable but wdym when u say everyone let him down?
THIS INFO IS WRONG! Watch "The Final 24 River Phoenix" documentary. In it the producer laments over how the night he died was the same day he shot his final scene, after 4 months of production.
You are so right! I watched final 24 last night so I dont know where the chic in this video is getting her info from!
The most gorgeous ethereal looking man to ever hit the planet. He always looked so miserable and tortured, I don't ever think I saw a pic of him smiling. He died when I was 15 and no man in Hollywood will ever hold a candle to him. Rest in peace beautiful hopefully in you're next life you will be happy ❤
He wasn't the most gorgeous looking man.....
George Moschos maybe to her
well i don’t think he liked his smile.
Beautifully written. I was 5.
@@MrMrjack18 jealous
Judy Davis treated River Phoenix horribly she should be embarrassed and ashamed
Judy Davis treated everybody horrible. But let's not forget that River was a full blown heroine and coke addict.....
@@normadesmond6017 he was sober for the shooting of Dark Blood. I don't understand what you mean by "full blown addict" either way, doesn't justify how Judy Davis treated EVERYONE including the director on this movie.
@@vintageragdoll1991 he was so sober that he OD before the movie was wrapped. Judy Davis is no prize, but River was an accident waiting to happen.
@@normadesmond6017 ~ what the hell do you mean "full blown heroine and coke addict....." ?????? That is as far from the truth as the moon is from earth you dim~wit. He had experimented with drugs from time to time earlier, but the hard stuff that killed him was given to him at the bar by so called friends telling him it would calm him down from being upset, due to the fact he wasn't able to play music with the people who were performing on stage. You make it sound like he was a street junkie.
@@normadesmond6017 He was sober for months up to the night he died. Someone in the club gave him a spiked drink.
Correction to this trailer and all reactions.
The Utah shoot (dessert scene's) took 6 weeks in total.
River and George arrived one week previous to the shooting,
to get to know eachother better.
After the Utah shoot, the production moved back to L.A, for a final 8 days of interior studio shootings.
After the first day it was Holloween weekend.
River died in the night after the first day of L.A. studio shooting.
The last shot is in the film.
Sincerely, Harold Jalving. (Sound designer Dark Blood and director of Never Give Uo)
Harold Jalving
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Thank you, Harold!
It's a shame they didn't show that piece here .... I have seen it before and it is very eerie where we see his silhouette walking up to the camera and knowing that he would soon die . It sure feels rather spooky and ominous on one hand and yet beautiful on the other hand with those candles in the background as if to say his light will always shine brightly
@@gardensofthegods Do you know where to find that footage of his silhouette? I image its super chilling but I still really wanna see it myself.
However, if you watch Dark Blood one of those takes is in the movie. Just not the very last take….
Just put the damn thing on Netflix
Fuck Netflix.
Lol 😂😆 😆😂
2 weeks into shooting... NO NO NO.. Two weeks left to shoot in L.A.. The movie was pretty much complete albeit a few scenes.
exactly
exactly! in fact Phoenix had shot his final scene the day he died, which was after 4 months of shooting.
bmillerdrums they finished shooting that day
Yes ma'am! The documentary The final 24 said The movie was about 80% completed. So they put together the film and narrated the parts that they hadn't shot yet. The movie is on youtube if you want to watch it. ITS GOOD!
Rest in Peace River
I donated to the cinecrowd funding back in late 2012 I guess. And I received the Dark Blood DVD in March/April 2013. I got the postcard inside, the DVD and also I received the 35mm film laments, I'm from Sydney, Australia and I donated $65 Australian dollars, which at the time, was something around $58 Euros. So yeah. I wished that they had a Special Features/Behind The Scenes, deleted scenes section on the DVD. I know some scenes that they did omitted from the film, that were actually shot in the Utah and New Mexico desert. As George Sluizer was doing a Q and A at one of the film festivals, and he talked about a scene he removed because it didn't fit the new edited version of the movie. It was a scene where Rivers character "Boy" and "Buffy" are both looking at the Stars through the scope, and Rivers Character Boy says this speech about the stars are of the dead or something like that. And another scene was that of the stories he shares about his great grandmother and grandfather. And the last scene River filmed, is not actually in the film. They filmed 2 scenes on that final day of shooting in LA, the last scene was when Boy and Buffy are in the cave and Harry has gone, and Boy talks about wanting to start a family etc, that's part of the missing scene that Harold Jalving ls also talking about. When they talk about the silloutte of River, that was after the scene was finished. But the footage of a few scenes are missing somewhere currently at the moment. Peace and thankyou to anyone who takes the time to read this comment. Thankyou. From Tom.
That was one handsome man.
Dark Blood consisted of roughly five weeks of on location shooting in Torrey, Utah and was scheduled to complete three weeks of filming interior scenes in Los Angeles, California on a sound stage. Parts of the film were also shot in Gallup, New Mexico.[2] There is a scene shot at Mesa Verde National Park in Montezuma County, Colorado. Filming was only 80% finished before Phoenix's death on October 31, 1993. Production halted while insurers and financiers tried to determine if the movie could be completed, but with important scenes still needing to be shot, the film was abandoned on November 18 of that same year.[3] For the 2012 release, roughly four to six missing scenes were replaced with Sluizer providing narration.
It was revealed in October 2011 that director George Sluizer had held onto the footage, fearing it would be destroyed, and that he had reedited the material and believed that with some adjustments a completed film could be released in 2012.[4] In 1999 the insurance company that owned the negatives wanted to stop paying storage costs, so they considered having the film destroyed. Sluizer entered the storage area that held the negative and removed it.[5] It was speculated that Sluizer would ask Phoenix's younger brother Joaquin Phoenix to dub River's voice. The Phoenix family made it clear that they would not participate in the project, saying in a statement, "In regard to releasing River's last film, Joaquin Phoenix and his family have not been in communication with the director nor will they participate in any way.
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It was too released. Took a long time, but it finally was.
No. It has never been released to the general public.
It's on Amazon though.
I donated to the cinecrowd funding back in late 2012 I guess. And I received the Dark Blood DVD in March/April 2013. I got the postcard inside, the DVD and also I received the 35mm film laments, I'm from Sydney, Australia and I donated $65 Australian dollars, which at the time, was something around $58 Euros. So yeah. I wished that they had a Special Features/Behind The Scenes, deleted scenes section on the DVD. I know some scenes that they did omitted from the film, that were actually shot in the Utah and New Mexico desert. As George Sluizer was doing a Q and A at one of the film festivals, and he talked about a scene he removed because it didn't fit the new edited version of the movie. It was a scene where Rivers character "Boy" and "Buffy" are both looking at the Stars through the scope, and Rivers Character Boy says this speech about the stars are of the dead or something like that. And another scene was that of the stories he shares about his great grandmother and grandfather. And the last scene River filmed, is not actually in the film. They filmed 2 scenes on that final day of shooting in LA, the last scene was when Boy and Buffy are in the cave and Harry has gone, and Boy talks about wanting to start a family etc, that's part of the missing scene that Harold Jalving ls also talking about. When they talk about the silloutte of River, that was after the scene was finished. But the footage of a few scenes are missing somewhere currently at the moment. Peace and thankyou to anyone who takes the time to read this comment. Thankyou. From Tom.
@@thomaspurcell6442 That was interesting, thank you.
I was confused. How could you put together a complete movie with only two weeks of footage??? Then I realized the info here isn't correct.
The following info is correct:
Five weeks of on-location shooting meant 80% of the film was shot. Three weeks of filming interior scenes in an L.A. sound stage were still scheduled to be completed. For the 2012 release, roughly four to six missing scenes were replaced with Sluizer providing narration.
Thanks Wikipedia!
Derrick Reisdorf they only had 4 months of footage. And the director and producers are evil. Its pretty simple.
river was 2 week away from finishing all of his scenes for the film, that's bc he held off on finishing shooting some of his sex scenes with judy davis bc of the way she treated him during production.
Thank you! They weren't two weeks in. They had two weeks left of filming. They had finished the on location portion of filming and the last two weeks were scheduled to be shot on soundstages, thus why they were in LA.
That's a sad story I wished he lived what a great star ❤️
Okay, I looked this up on IMDB, and it says this movie came out in 2012, and River Phoenix died in 1993. Did it really take THAT long for it to come out?
Yup.
Yes. To my surprise I couldn't believe it when they said they were going to release the unfinished film to its very best completion. I waited since I first even heard of river phoenix back in 1994 (one year after his death... He wasn't that big of a star believe it or not)... But I finally got to see the film and felt robbed at the end that this would be the very last role river performed.
without any fundraising, this movie was going to stay in the dark. Studio or producers didn't want to pay more to release the movie, or Sluizer was not able to get the rushes, because insurance owned them and it was going to be destroy!!!! This is why it took so long :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Blood
How handsome is he when he opens the door
Insurance companies are flat out jokes. They get free money just in case shit happens. Hate em all.
Louis Cifer I agree on your statement about insurance companies, they had River sign a clause that stated he was not on or using drugs( it was known in Hollywood he was) . When he died of a drug overdose that’s when they attempted to Sue the Phoenix estate. The insurance loss the lawsuit.
You don't understand how Hollywood works. whenever movies made the production company has to ensure the film in case the actor dies or doesn't finish the movie.that's why insurance companies won't cover actors with drug addictions like Robert Downey jr. Lindsay Lohan Brad renfro at the time that they had their problems. Because it's a high-risk it's like covering a person with car insurance who has multiple DUIs. River Phoenix like a lot of actors on drugs misrepresented himself as NOT having an addiction to the insurance company so they would ensure him otherwise he would have been able to make the film. City insurance company is suing him for the money that they had to pay out to the production company after he died because he lied to them about his addiction. Which technically is fraud. I would do the same thing.
@@davidroberts1758 That's rediculous. Losing his life I think was punishment enough for being on drugs. He is no longer living to be able to pay anything and his family being sued after losing him the way they did is bullshit. They didnt deserve to have to pay a thing. They weren't the ones that "broke the contract" by dying.
@@shaylacrossland1475
Are you asking Joshua Robertson the human being or Joshua Robertson the one that went to law school because they're they're two different people.
If he'd been off his tits on heroin or whatever from day one, then obviously anyone would have taken exception to that, like when Corey Feldman was nearly sacked from The Lost Boys because he turned up to the set high on cannabis and other drugs. However, in an interview, George Sluizer singled out a particular day - the last day of shooting, in fact - when he was clearly on something, describing him as being unfocused, struggling to judge distances, also taking nearly an hour in the makeup chair when normally he would have taken just 20 minutes.
Some people try to defend Judy Davis by saying she was a "professional actress who had no time for dealing with a drug addict". I honestly think she pushed him into relapse with her relentless campaign of bullying against him. There's a difference between setting someone straight for unprofessional behaviour and being a bully - and it sounds to me like Davis was definitely a bully, and the least professional member of the cast because of that.
Conversely, Gus Van Sant gave him a right bollocking after a particular scene in My Own Private Idaho for an ill-judged comment he made to Keanu Reeves, but it seems he got over that all right. Here, Judy Davis just bullied him mercilessly right from the off. If they had cast a different actress - my choice would have been Alison Steadman - in this film instead of Davis, events would likely have unfolded very differently.
This is what happens over time, people get all the facts messed up. Try to just remember the important things or at least what's important to you, it's impossible for some people to just do that.
They were able to finish it and released the film in 2012 entitled Black or Dark Blood😊
How is it that River has short hair in this movie, but long hair when he dies???
Whatever ppl that u think what important I think not I though it was stupid of the company sueing the family for river not finishing the damn movie that so stupid no one predicted that he passed away
Tina Clem learn English u stupid cow
When an insurance company insures an actor they sign a clause that includes they will not take illegal substances which River did do so he broke the agreement and the insurance company had every right to sue.
They may have had a legal right, but morally it was wrong.
@SeeThis608 Yeah, its highly likely he was accidentally poisoned. Since the family declined to have it investigated, only the people directly involved will ever know. It's a damn shame because not pressing charges has made it look like River was an out of control junky taking an insane amount of drugs purposely. It has dragged his memory through the mud, and he's mostly been forgotten despite his contribution to hollywood at the time. His whole life is such a sad and tragic story it almost seems made up.
SeeThis608 or maybe that was propaganda put out so he couldn’t get sued. I don’t know the man but I know Hollywood and I know he dabbled with drugs
@@sashabrown1796 😥😥
@@jadabull Oh heck yeah he did. But that doesn't mean things that night went down the way it was portrayed.
my baby
Pas l'air génial franchement. Il avait pas besoin de mourir.😉
Besides the info in this video being wrong (River passed on the last day of shooting) and besides the fact that your touch Link above to help save and release the movie....Doesn’t apparently work...o would like to pint out the most important thing to this movie- the costar Judy Davis was mentioned to be The Worst actor in history that the director EVER had to work with and on top of that she was Beyond Awful to River and he was really seriously suffering having to keep working with her. SHE is in Many peoples opinion- one of The Main reasons River died. He was so relieved on top of being a very sensitive person and she’s an ugly hated vile pig that treated him like a loser POS. That b***h deserves hell at least on earth but I’m seriously doubting she has any conscience or any feel to blame. Don’t believe me? Look it up. You’ll find it eventually. (It might be covered up a bit) Anyway, Peace&Love ✌🏼 ❤️
I have heard this--and what's sad is that River supposedly really admired her and couldn't wait to work with her. I once loved her work as well--now I can't stand to see her on screen.
Yeah. She was a classically trained actress and had zero patience for his made-up techniques. She also seemed to fight against being enchanted by his hippie vibe. Like he seemed to repulse her and he was used to charming people. Still don't think she should take any blame. He still chose to put drugs in his body.
@@GMZtx So, that means its OK to sabotage people you're trying to work with creatively? We all work with people we may not like personally, but we work with them and behave like professionals. Deliberately trying to screw up scenes? It'd be like screwing up a song you're playing because you dislike the bass player. It's petty. It's not her fault regardless. There were a ton of events leading to what happened. Reverse engineering an accident is futile. The real take away is that no one was looking out for child actors back then. Weird shit happened to them, and it has killed more than one of them. Really sad.
Bird Skull they still aren’t looking out for child actors. Many of them are being raped and drugged. Fuck Hollywood and fuck the entertainment industry and their “STARS”
True! Why did she treat so bad. B...
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How could the insurance company sue the family over breech of contract??? River was an adult well over 18 and responsible for his own actions. None of the other family members signed anything. I believe that statement is bull shit and false!!!
The still at .22 is interesting. If that is River. He has long hair there.
That's from final 24
So handsome
This girl is annoying and misinformed.
Why is this woman yapping? Roll the tape
It's a shitty movie, you can download it off torrent a screener
RIV IS STILL HERE 💎
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He looks terrible in this film. Strung out. RIP
He lost weight purposely so he could look like he’d been starving and living in the desert. It was for the role.