Editing Pretty Woman (section)

=== Development === 
The film was initially conceived as a dark drama about prostitution in Los Angeles in the 1980s.<ref name="dvd">{{cite video |date= 2005 |title= Pretty Woman: 15th anniversary |type= DVD |publisher= Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone}}</ref> The relationship between Vivian and Edward also originally included Vivian being addicted to [[drugs]]; part of the deal was that she had to stay off [[cocaine]] for a week. Edward eventually throws her out of his car and drives off.<ref name=Graham>{{cite episode|title=Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Timothée Chalamet, Cher |series=[[The Graham Norton Show]] |network=BBC |date=1 December 2023 |season=31 |number=9}}</ref> The original script by J.{{nbsp}}F.{{nbsp}}Lawton, called ''3000'',<ref name="VF">{{cite web |last=Erbland |first=Kate |date=March 23, 2015 |title=The True Story of Pretty Woman's Original Dark Ending |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/pretty-woman-original-ending |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128004806/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/pretty-woman-original-ending |archive-date=January 28, 2018 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> ended with Vivian and her prostitute friend on the bus to Disneyland.<ref name="dvd" /> Producer [[Laura Ziskin]] considered these elements detrimental to a sympathetic portrayal of Vivian, and they were removed or assigned to Kit. The deleted scenes have been found, and some were included on the DVD released for the film's 15th anniversary.<ref name="dvd" /> In one, Vivian tells Edward, "I could just pop ya good and be on my way," indicating her lack of interest in "[[pillow talk]]." In another, she is confronted by a drug dealer, Carlos, then rescued by Edward when the limo driver Darryl gets his gun out.

Though inspired by such films as ''[[Wall Street (1987 film)|Wall Street]]'' and ''[[The Last Detail]]'',<ref name="VF" /> the film bears a resemblance to [[Pygmalion (mythology)|Pygmalion myth]]s: particularly [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s [[Pygmalion (play)|play of the same name]], which also formed the basis for the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical ''[[My Fair Lady]]''. It was [[The Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]] then-president [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] who insisted the film be re-written as a modern-day fairy tale and love story, as opposed to the original dark drama. It was pitched to [[Touchstone Pictures]] and re-written as a romantic comedy.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lewis |first=Hilary |date=August 26, 2016 |title=8 Movies With Major Title Changes |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/lists/movies-original-titles-before-change-923339/item/arrival-movie-title-changes-2016-923334 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831131329/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/movies-original-titles-before-change-923339/item/arrival-movie-title-changes-2016-923334 |archive-date=August 31, 2016 |access-date=August 27, 2016 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref> The title ''3000'' was changed because Disney executives thought it sounded like a title for a science fiction film.<ref>{{cite book |author-link= James B. Stewart |last= Stewart |first= James B. |title= [[DisneyWar]] |page= [https://archive.org/details/disneywar00stew/page/110 110] |location= New York |publisher= [[Simon & Schuster]] |year= 2005 |isbn= 978-0-7432-6709-0 }}</ref>