Earlier this 12 months, director Zack Snyder revealed that he had plans to launch a director’s lower of Sucker Punch. Now, he’s opened up about his plans for the movie.
Talking to Inverse, Snyder confirmed {that a} director’s lower for the 2011 movie remains to be within the works, and that he’s looking for the time to make it occur.
“I’m working with Warner Bros. to attempt to discover a window to return in,” Snyder stated. “Despite the fact that we did an prolonged model, it’s not the totally realized film.”
Snyder additionally stated that, though it’s been greater than a decade for the reason that authentic movie’s launch, he wish to get a few of the principal forged again collectively if he filmed a director’s lower. “I feel it’s good [if] I can get these guys, Emily [Browning] and Abby [Cornish] and the crew again in,” stated Snyder. “Some reshoots can be superb.”
The historical past of a Sucker Punch director’s lower
Sucker Punch stars Emily Browning as Babydoll, a younger girl dedicated to a psychological hospital at the start of the movie. When trapped there, Babydoll journeys right into a fantasy world alongside 4 different sufferers, all of whom try to flee the establishment previous to being lobotomized.
The movie acquired principally adverse critiques and grossed roughly $89.8 million on the worldwide field workplace with a finances of $82 million. Whereas the theatrical lower of Sucker Punch was rated PG-13, an prolonged R-rated lower with a further 18 minutes of footage was included within the film’s Blu-ray launch.
Snyder has beforehand spoken about his want to make a director’s lower of Sucker Punch, as he advised Self-importance Truthful in 2021 that engaged on the theatrical model was “the primary time the place I actually confronted, like, a real radical restructuring of the movie for it to be extra industrial.”
A director’s lower of Sucker Punch wouldn’t be the primary time Snyder has revisited certainly one of his movies. Having stepped away from directing Justice League throughout post-production in 2017, Warner Bros. Footage launched Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a four-hour-long model of the movie matching his authentic imaginative and prescient, in 2021.
