Anna Nicole Smith’s film finale — a campy B-grade movie called “Illegal Aliens” — was supposed to be a comedy. Whether it will be received that way now is unclear, though, says director David Giancola.
“We had people crying with laughter. Now I’m backed into a situation here I’m not sure people are going to be ready to laugh at Anna,” he told the Rutland Herald.
Smith, 39, was found unconscious Thursday in a Hollywood, Fla., casino-hotel and declared dead later.
The former Playboy playmate, whose feature film credits include “The Hudsucker Proxy” and “Naked Gun 33 1/3,” filmed her last movie in Vermont in 2005. It’s scheduled for release in April.
In it, she plays one of three extraterrestrials who fight an intergalactic terrorist.
Producer Edgewood Studios bills it as “Charlie’s Angels goes sci-fi.”
“This film may never get rated,” according to a trailer for it.
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Giancola learned of Smith’s death Thursday from reporters calling him for comment.
“It’s devastating,” he said. “I know the real Anna was a good person. I don’t know what happened, but I know she would have loved sitting with an audience and making them laugh.”
He described Smith as more of a country girl than a famous model. And he has mixed emotions about his newfound notoriety as the director of her final film.
“I’m still kind of shell-shocked,” he said. “In a strange way, I’m kind of proud to have done this great work with her. I think when the movie came out she would have been offered a lot more parts.”
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