Red, White & Royal Blue director says ‘there was never a 3-hour version’
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.
