.Kiwi writer-director Vincent Ward has buried the hatchet with producers on his film the River Queen and opted for a little marriage counseling in lieu of divorce. The trial separation, which began in October, began when Ward was blamed by the completion guarantors for things that were obviously under his control such as, illness and bad weather. Ward also apparently had trouble getting along with his protagonist Samantha Morton but who could blame him, I hate her and I don‘t even know her.

Vincent Ward is best known in America for helming What Dreams May Come and writing Alien³ but in his home country of New Zealand he wrote and directed some truly wonderful films: Vigil, The Navigator, and Map of the Human Heart.

His film River Queen has Morton playing a woman on a mission to locate her son who was kidnapped during the war between the Maori of New Zealand and the colonial troops. The film has also tapped Keifer Sutherland, Stephen Rea, and the great but underused Cliff Curtis to star.

It’s a funny thing to get thrown off of your own movie and then be asked to come back. I don’t know if I could swallow my pride. I’m the type of person that would tell the producers to eat a dick and hope for the film’s failure and that is exactly why I would never make it in the film business.

Ward is optimistic about being back on board his own film and directing the post-production efforts. He had this to say: "It’s going really well. We’ve got haunting visuals, and the entire cast have acted their socks off." I never knew sock removal was a good gauge of acting ability.