It's the romantic comedy that helped propel Julia Roberts and Richard Gere to super-stardom and made viewers everywhere believe in fairy tale endings.
But Pretty Woman could have been a much darker tale, according to former Disney studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg, talking at a Hearst Tower Q&A in New York, the Daily Mail reports.
![Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in the 1990 film Pretty Woman.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/YOPKPZPEH63R5V3WESFKWXQA7Q.jpg?auth=4a350362143318409ab56be01b3702bfb3fc83acadc653262137c55725e6283c&width=16&height=21&quality=70&smart=true)
"As a script, Pretty Woman was an R-rated movie about a hooker on Hollywood Boulevard," Page Six reported.
"By the way, in the original version - it's pretty dark - I think she died of an overdose.