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When it comes to divisive films, there are few that reach the heights of Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. Although the film was a mostly a critical failure and was a box office bomb, there is still quite a cult following for the movie. Is it a misunderstood action epic or is it really bad film making? We really won't answer that because everyone seems to have their very own opinion on Snyder's 2011 female led visual spectacle.
This week, when speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about her upcoming role on the Dexter revival and her time on Lovecraft Country, actress Jamie Chung reveals that there was a lot of cut footage that could have made for a much more detailed movie that would have filled in many more of the building blocks of the story. She also says that the studio interfered enough to get the rating reduced from an R to a PG-13. This is something we continue to hear about the execs at Warner Bros..
Although it will probably never happen, it would be nice to see what Snyder had planned for his original vision of Sucker Punch. From what Chung says, it sounds like many of the development scenes were shortened for run time, with many of the action sections being trimmed for length as well:
"[The theatrical cut] is PG-13, but it feels like such an R-rated movie. And I think that’s one of the reasons why they altered the story. It’s been so long, but there would’ve been a lot more detail. Each scene would’ve been extended by 10 minutes. (Laughs.) We shot the hell out of that movie, and it was so fun. My character was the pilot, but I do know that the fighting sequences were much longer. Gosh, it felt like we trained so long for them. That whole experience in itself was six months, so there’s got to be more out there."
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