The first cut of the film presented to Fox executives was 186 minutes long. This had been taken from a 280-minute assembly edit (in the assembly, the actual siege itself was 45 minutes long). The main thing the executives questioned, was the subplot involving Sibylla's son, as they felt this was Balian's story, and his story didn't need that particular plot line. Indeed, even during pre-production itself, executives had ordered William Monahan to write a version of the script without the Baldwin V plot, and Sir Ridley Scott shot the film in such a way, that the plot could be easily cut.
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