Sometimes when a big movie is released, it’s often not the intended vision of a director, More often than not, that vision will never come to fruition after meddling from production companies.
Sometimes a director might get a second chance to edit a movie post-release with added content that was not originally in its first form. Over the years we’ve had post-release edits for the likes of The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and the Alien franchise, to name a few.
Check out the Sucker Punch trailer below!
One particular director/producer that likes to tinker with movies post-release is Zack Snyder. In the past, for better or worse, we’ve had newly edited versions of Watchmen, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League.
However, Snyder is hoping to add another movie to his post-release resume, and that’s 2011’s Sucker Punch. If you’ve never watched Sucker Punch before, it's a fun movie from what I can remember... though it did receive somewhat of a mixed reception. On Rotten Tomatoes, Sucker Punch scored just 22% from critics, but 47% from the audience. Though it did receive an above-average score of 6.0 on IMDB.
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“Locked away, a young woman named Babydoll (Emily Browning) retreats to a fantasy world where she is free to go wherever her mind takes her,” reads the Sucker Punch synopsis.
“Determined to fight for real freedom, she finds four women -- Rocket, Blondie, Amber and Sweet Pea -- to join together to escape the terrible fate that awaits them. With a virtual arsenal at their disposal, the allies battle everything from samurais to serpents, while trying to decide what price they will pay for survival.”
During an interview with Letterboxd, 12 years since it was initially released, Zack Snyder hopes to release a director’s cut for Sucker Punch, after describing the original ending of the movie as ‘too weird’.
“I've never gotten around to doing the director's cut. I still plan to at some point,” said Snyder. “But in the original ending, when Babydoll is in the chair in the basement with Blue - she's already been lobotomized - when the cop shines the light on her, the set breaks apart, and she stands up, and she sings a song on stage.
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“She sings, 'Ooh, Child, things are gonna get easier.' Blondie, and all the people that have been killed, join in, and it's the idea that in a weird way, even though she's lobotomised, she's kind of stuck in this infinite loop of euphoric victory," he explained. “It's weirdly not optimistic and optimistic at the same time. That's kind of what the tone was at the end. We tested it, and the studio thought it was too weird, so we changed it.”
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At this time, there is no release date for the director’s cut of Sucker Punch, but Zack Snyder hopes that fans will get to see it “at some point”.
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