Oooooook… so, how to approach this story, huh?
While many of us are celebrating the upcoming release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, formerly The Snyder Cut, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call writer/director Paul Feig, probably in jest, has suggested that he would be happy to share his three and a half hour cut of Ghostbusters with the world too.
There’s a three and a half hour cut of Ghostbusters: ATC I’d be happy to share. #FeygerCut https://t.co/zTVE4bDPFm
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) May 21, 2020
Interestingly, fans – and, em, non-fans – will know that there actually IS a three and a half hour cut of Answer The Call – there’s actaully a longer one too.
When Ghostbusters: Answer the Call hit cinemas it was 116mins but when it was released on home release it had and extended cut that ran at 134mins and included the full dance number and various extended scenes, but even at that, Feig has teased that there was a much, much longer version out there.
“The editor’s first cut was 4 hours and 15 minutes,” Feig said at the time, “and I trimmed that down to a slim 3 and a half hours. We generate a lot of stuff and I always wanna have all the underpinnings of a big, emotional story, and because of that it just added a lot of extra scenes that as you’re going through, you know you have to make a lot of choices because I knew I had to bring this down under two hours.”
It’s interesting that in his Tweet, while I do suspect Feig is saying it in jest, he says he’d be “happy to share with you”, which got me wondering… could we actually see this appear online or on a streaming service in the near future?
Let’s be honest, with everyone sitting at home mostly now, releasing this when we should all have been getting ready for the pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, would actually be a smart move… it would likely get quite a few watches (heck, I’d watch it for sure (here’s my original review of the movie), so I’d not entirely rule this out as potentially happening.
What do you think? Would you want to see it? Would you watch? Let me know your thoughts, gang…
Marc
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