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Diesel's 'Babylon A.D.' runtime slashed
Published Thursday, Apr 10 2008, 15:29 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
Twitch Film reports that the original cut, which ran 2 hours and 40 minutes, has been slashed to 90 minutes for its UK release.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has also awarded the film a 12A rating, suggesting that much of the action and violence from the film has been cut.
Babylon A.D. stars Vin Diesel as a mercenary who escorts a woman from post-apocalyptic Russia to New York. The pair find themselves tracked by a cult who want to use the woman to genetically engineer a Messiah.
Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling star in the Mathieu Kassovitz-directed film.
Babylon A.D. is scheduled for release on August 29.
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