Ridley Scott Confirms Prometheus’ First Cut is 2 hours and 27 mins
Ridley Scott talks more Prometheus, run times, deleted scenes, and the new BLADE RUNNER in an exclusive interview with Collider’s Steven Weintraub.
In the chat, the director states the first cut of his new sci-fi film is “2… 27“. The theatrical cut ended up being 1 hour and 59 minutes long excluding credits. Also Scott mentions, for better or worse, that the theatrical cut of Prometheus is “fundamentally a director’s cut.”
In addition to the talk regarding the run times, Ridley Scott provides more details about the fight scene between Shaw and The Engineer that didn’t make it to the theatrical cut (the first time we heard of this unused footage was in an interview with Rapace and Fassbender here http://youtu.be/h-UR9_gh7a4?t=3m18s).
“What she gives is as good as it gets, with an ax… she’s really, very physical. He’s so big. For him to be clouted by a conventional weapon somehow dimished him,” the director says. “It’s drama. I didn’t want to diminish him by having this person who’s got this weapon to be able to kind of back him off. It minimized him.”
Check out the video interview yourself where the Prometheus talk starts at 2:07. The director also reveals some very interesting details about the new BLADE RUNNER movie towards the end of the video.
Thanks to seeasea for the Collider link!
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shouldve kept the extended shaw engineer fight.
Disagree. Scott’s argument to delete the extended scene is logical.
No it is not logical. He also said to delete the cocoon scene.
But they both need to be there. Much better climax.
eww the cocoon scene like all the other deleted scenes were best left out.
I dont know if the extended scene would have been better, but the theatrical version is so truncated that ironically it diminishes him.
Run in, shove, stuck in a octopus.
This is so frustrating to read! This cut better end up on the blu-ray.
I would like to see the final cut beefed out a bit with some extra time given to the development of the story and characters. The end was a bit rushed I thought. However, I do agree with Ridley, that showing that Shaw could compete with the engineer would have devalued it’s superior strength. This happened in Aliens, Cameron totally took away the mystique and invincibility of the alien. They where being dispatched far to easily.
I have overcome my initial disappointment with the film, it was never going to live up to 30 years of expectation! And now having thought about the film afterward, I look forward to seeing it again, now knowing what to expect.
I would like to see the final cut beefed out a bit with some extra time given to the development of the story and characters. The end was a bit rushed I thought. However, I do agree with Ridley, that showing that Shaw could compete with the engineer would have devalued it’s superior strength. This happened in Aliens, Cameron totally took away the mystique and invincibility of the alien. They where being dispatched far to easily.
I have overcome my initial disappointment with the film, it was never going to live up to 30 years of expectation! And now having thought about the film afterward, I look forward to seeing it again, now knowing what to expect.
““fundamentally a director’s cut.””
And that’s the problem.
Ridley has not overseen decent editing in decades.
Even if he did do a “directors cut” he would only mangle it just as bad but longer.
Hopefully there will be a wealth of out-takes on the bluray so that fan editors can try and fix it.
I think the Engineer should have start bashing her, but she gets in one good shot to his chest with the ax. He looks at it, slightly smiles and pulls it like a bee sting, no blood. He then throws her to the Octopus door 20 feet away and comes running to crush her when she opens the door at the last second and we see him attacked by it. He should turn all his attention to it while Shaw flees and we see the Enginner and Octopus do epic battle. Just when it looks like he has the Alien defeated, out comes the the face hugger and the crunch of his bones.
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ET POURQUOI LE GRAND EXTRATERESTRE HUMAIN NE POSSEDE LA MOINDRE ARME LASER OU AUTRE. L’ EQUIPAGE DE PROMETHEUS A DES LANCES FLAMME COMME EN 1944 ALORS QU IL DOIVENT EN AVOIR DES ARMES DU FUTUR. IL N’Y A AUCUN ROBOT DE GUERRE POUR LES
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Bs. It was a good decision to cut that show showdown with the Engineer. Smart move and it makes me wonder as why he didn’t pay attention to the rest of his movie.
About director cut. In the case of Alien, I like the Theatrical release better. The added scenes did not do anything for me. So in this case, they may or may not make a decent more better or possibly even worse. Still, i will be buying the BR just alone for some of the beautiful shots….
I felt it was long enough at nearly 2hrs. It doesn’t need to be longer.