Devastating news incoming: a three-hour version of Red, White & Royal Blue doesn’t actually exist.
Matthew Lopez, director of the Prime Video rom-com, is “setting the record straight” after previously telling US Magazine that the first version he watched of the film was three-hours long.
“I watched the movie for the first time at the three-hour version of the movie that I first was given by my editor — and everything that wasn’t Alex and Henry had to go,” he told the publication.
Lopez’s comments caused pandemonium online, with fans demanding the release of the extended version – a change.org petition currently has over 21,000 signatures.
In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, however, Lopez said the situation “has gotten a little out of hand” and that he ‘regrets’ his previous comments because “there was never a three-hour cut of the film”.
“The assembly of this film was about 2 hours and 45 minutes. But an assembly of a film, anyone who’s ever worked on a movie will tell you, an assembly is not a cut,” he explained.
“An assembly is quite literally everything that’s in the script that was shot, strung together in order. And that first assembly came to about 2 hours and 45 minutes. So the movie was never 3 hours long and there was never a cut of the film that was 3 hours long.”
Lopez said it was important for him to “correct everybody”: “There is no way on God’s green earth that anybody ever wants to see or ever should see the assembly of a film — to the point that not even my producers or the studio are allowed to see an assembly.
“It’s where the DGA goes, like only myself, my editor, and my editing team ever saw the assembly. So we’re not talking about a version of the film that was three hours long.
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