At first, Sir Ridley Scott's original cut, without the voice-over, amongst other things, was thought to be non-existent. It was in 1989 that Michael Arick, a sound preservationist and Director of Assent Management at Warner Brothers, stumbled upon a 70mm print of this movie while looking for footage from La donna che inventò lo strip-tease (1962). Several months later, the Cineplex Odeon Fairfax theater was having a classic-film festival featuring 70mm prints. The print discovered by Arick was set to be screened in May. However, no one had actually watched the print and everyone thought it was the International Cut, leading to a great deal of surprise when people discovered it was another version entirely. More screenings of this version resulted in sell-outs, and Warner Brothers proposed releasing it as a Director's Cut. Sir Ridley Scott, however, said it was not a Director's Cut, and said that several changes would need to be made for him to approve it. Ultimately, Scott and Arick were not given enough time to complete the project to Scott's satisfaction, and the resulting Director's Cut was still not Scott's preferred version of this movie. In 2007, Scott was finally able to release what he considered to be the definitive cut of this movie, which is labelled "The Final Cut".
Scritto da il
05-03-2025 alle ore 08:34