Red, White & Royal Blue fans are demanding the original 3-hour version
Fans are ‘not resting’ until the original cut of Red, White & Royal Blue is released. In a recent interview with US Magazine, director Matthew Lopez revealed that the Prime Video rom-com, which is 121 minutes, was originally three-hours.
Based on Casey McQuiston’s acclaimed novel of the same name, Red, White & Royal Blue follows the romance between Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of America’s first female president (Uma Thurman), and Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), a British prince.
Lopez, the Tony Award-winning creator and writer of The Inheritance, said he had a “very, very different job” from the author due to the budget and time limitations that come with making a film, with “time being the most pressing one”. “What I’ve been saying to people is like, ‘Well, take the number of hours the audiobook lasts and subtract it by two, and that’s what was left out of the movie,'” he said, before explaining that his adaptation is “about Alex and Henry first”. “And first, middle, and last, everything, every decision that I made as the director of this film had to flow into, is it right for Alex and is it right for Henry?
And is it right for them as a couple? “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.” Lopez continued: “I [felt], like, you’re taking me away from what I care most about, which is Alex and Henry in the movie.
