Apparently, the director of "Blade Runner 2049" consider's the running time of the movie enough, as the four-hour director's cut has been ruled out.
In an interview with Screen Crush, Denis Villeneuve, the director of the said sequel to "Blade Runner," has expressed disapproval at releasing the extended cut version of the movie, much to the dismay of the faithful fans of the genre. It also seems that they simply made a movie which was too long and even had problems with how to handle it.
"The thing is, it's true that the first cut was four hours and at one point we were like, 'Okay, do we go to the producer and release it in two?' But let's say the idea of the movie being in two parts didn't get out of the editing room. No, the best incarnation of the movie is what is in the theatre," said Villeneuve. He also voiced out his preference for the theatrical version of the movie despite the four-hour cut being alleged "quite strong," but he ultimately admitted that he was being self-indulgent with it.
Fans worried that they might be missing essential scenes need not fear much as Villeneuve has assured everyone that no cut content is great enough to warrant regrets. Simply put, only unimportant or lackluster moments have been lost during the editing process since Villeneuve's process of editing prioritizes the best parts of the movie, meaning what he cut out for the theatrical release was not good enough according to him.
The 50-year-old director then went on to state that he does not like director's cuts. Apart from the original "Blade Runner" and another movie, he also has never seen a director's cut do better than the theatrical one. He even went as far as to claim that "Apocalypse Now - Redux" was worse than the theatrical version and that he did not like it as much as that way.
Whether the four-hour cut was better or worse than the theatrical cut will never be seen, and what viewers saw in the theatre was what they will also get in the DVD version.
