Star Wars: The Last Jedi has a run time of two and a half hours.
However, according to director Rian Johnson, the first cut was much longer.
Logging in at three hours, the original cut of the film didn't make it to theaters.
But Johnson insists that the shorter version is the better version for fans to see.
The first cut of most movies compiles virtually every scene that the director shot to
give a filmmaker their first taste of how the script translated to the screen.
In the case of The Last Jedi, writer/director Rian Johnson recently shared that the completed first cut of the film was over three hours.
?We had a long movie from the start," Johnson confessed. "It was well over three hours, the first cut? It?s much better at two and a half [hours] than it was at over three, but it was a cut I had put together, is where we started. And it was over three hours.?
The filmmaker went on to reveal that, not only were certain scenes and sequences trimmed and edited to be tighter, but entire sequences were removed to help with the film's pacing.
?A lot of really good stuff came out in the edit," Johnson pointed out. "I actually just reviewed the deleted scenes we?re gonna have on the Blu-ray. There?s a bunch of?some of my favorite scenes ended up having to come out just structurally? There?s a lot of really substantial, really good scenes. There?s a couple whole sequences actually that we lifted out. It?s weirdly?and this always happens?it?s like your babies you have to kill. It?s some of my favorite stuff from the movie.?
04-12-2017 - Vidéo
