After the film was pitched to them, studio marketing executives took it to be an action-adventure hybrid, rather than what Sir Ridley Scott and William Monahan intended it to be--a historical epic examining religious conflict. 20th Century Fox promoted the film as an action movie with heavy elements of romance, and in the advertising campaign it made much of the "From the director of Il gladiatore (2000)" slogan. When Scott presented the 194-minute version of the film to the studio, it balked at the length, and studio head Tom Rothman ordered the film to be trimmed down to two hours, feeling people wouldn't go to see a three-hour movie. Ultimately, Rothman's decision backfired, as the film gained mixed reviews (with many commenting that the film seemed "incomplete"), and it did not perform well at the U.S. box office.
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