After actors and directors including Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow blasted Sony’s “Clean Version” initiative, the studio said Wednesday that it would not include films in that plan without directorial approval.
In a statement, Sony said it thought it had received the go-ahead before launching the initiative, but it would accommodate wishes by any directors who did not want their films to be part of the program.
“Our directors are of paramount importance to us and we want to respect those relationships to the utmost,” Sony Pictures Home Entertainment President Man Jit Singh said in the statement. “We believed we had obtained approvals from the filmmakers involved for use of their previously supervised television versions as a value added extra on sales of the full version.