Lawton went on to help director Garry Marshall write the musical version of Pretty Woman. Filmmaking is a collaboration and everybody, including Roberts herself, had input into crafting the Pretty Woman we know and love today. By now everyone knows the story of Pretty Woman. She gets a makeover with a shopping spree and dining etiquette lessons, but they eventually fall in love for real. In the script, Edward had a model girlfriend named Cindy, not that he was too eager to get back to her.
He calls her the C word at one point. Lawton supported the revision and worked on his own version before other writers and producers contributed to Pretty Woman. He said once Roberts and Vivian worked together, it was unthinkable to go with the original scripted ending. Edward is a nastier character in the script than in Pretty Woman. He tries to recruit her for his own high priced escort service!
Roberts also told Lauer that Vivian was a drug addict in Three Thousand. Disney ultimately bought the film rights, with Garry Marshall stepping in to direct what became the romantic comedy Pretty Woman.
Although Marshall might have had some other Hollywood A-listers in mind for the starring role, he met with Roberts as a courtesy anyway. After she won him over, Pretty Woman was born from what had once been 3, — a reference to the amount of money wealthy businessman Edward Lewis played by Richard Gere paid Vivian to be his escort for the week.
Indeed, 3, wasn't quite the same modern-day Cinderella story that eventually hit theaters in March Before Marshall gave Pretty Woman the rom-com treatment, screenwriter J. Lawton had conceived the story in the late s as a dark, gritty drama centering on the dangers facing Hollywood sex workers at the time.
He'd drawn inspiration from such films as 's The Last Detail and 's Wall Street , and there was no happily ever after for Vivian and Edward.
Fresh off his success directing the musical drama Beaches , Marshall had been intrigued by Lawton's heavier script, which he saw as the story of "a girl who wanted to change her life, and did," according to Vanity Fair.
What Marshall had in mind, however, was more akin to a fairy tale with a twist. Julia was Rapunzel, Richard was Prince Charming, and Hector [Elizondo] was the fairy godmother," the late director said Despite its ultimate shift in tone, the movie still contained several elements and scenes from Lawton's original 3, script. Among them were such classics as Vivian's disastrous shopping experiences on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, as well as her and Edward's opera date night and dinner with James Morse, the kind-hearted businessman whose company Edward intended to overtake.
Lawton credited the studio's desire for a happy ending to Gere and Roberts themselves. The two embrace on the fire escape and kiss, right before the film triumphantly goes to its end credits. Lawton's initial screenplay for Pretty Woman — originally titled 3, — ended in a very different way than the final version of the film. In Lawton's original script, the ending featured Julia Roberts' Vivian and Laura San Giacomo's Kit on a bus heading for Disneyland — a trip Kit is openly looking forward to — which is also financed by Vivian's week with Edward.
The conclusion is far less happy for Vivian, though, as it ends with Vivian and Edward not ending up together, and Vivian staring "out emptily ahead. The ending made sense in the original script, which was itself written as a dark and somber drama inspired by films like Wall Street and The Last Detail.
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