“I don’t really love watching super long movies,” director Adam Wingard said.
“My preference is, I don’t really love watching super long movies.
Like, Dune 2 really worked, and there’s certain movies thatshouldbe over two hours.
But for me, it was really by choice.
It wasn’t like we ran out of stuff to do or we’re rushing things.
So his tendency has always been toward shorter running times.
So I never wanted a version that was three hours.
It was a natural thing.
“There’s not a lot on the cutting room floor.
There’s a couple little additional moments to sequences.
Scenes could have easily been cut longer,” Wingard said.
“We had the opening scene basically pre-built, we had the first sequence with Suko.
And we were almost halfway through the whole Skar King sequence while we were filming.
So we had a lot of confidence of like, this sequence is going to be this length.
And those always kind of stayed the same, like the Skar King.
I knew, like his intro was going to be between seven and nine minutes.
But once the humanswerearound for filming, Wingard joked that he liked to play favorites.
“There would be certain takes where it’d be all three of them right?
That was amazing!'”
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