Director Denis Villeneuve delivered some bad news to fans of the Dune franchise regarding the deleted scenes.
Villeneuve told the Collider that Dune: Part Two, which is nearly three hours long, will not have any deleted scenes featured in the Blu-Ray release of the film, when he was quizzed about it.
“I’m a strong believer that when it’s not in the movie, it’s dead,” the director told the outlet. “Sometimes I remove shots and I say, ‘I cannot believe I’m cutting this out. I feel like a samurai opening my gut.”
“It’s painful, so I cannot go back after that and create a Frankenstein and try to reanimate things that I killed,” Villeneuve said of snipping scenes from the film.
“It’s too painful. When it’s dead, it’s dead, and it’s dead for a reason. But yes, it is a painful project, but it is my job,” he continued. “The movie prevails. I’m very severe in the editing room. I’m not thinking about my ego, I’m thinking about the movie … I kill darlings, and it’s painful for me.”
“I’ve made movies in my life that were 75 minutes, and this one is two hours, 45 [minutes], I think, something like that,” Villeneuve added.
“It’s not the runtime, it’s about the storytelling, and I felt that I wanted to create a momentum. I wanted an energy in the movie that I was looking for that excited me, and I thought that was the perfect runtime … You can be bored by a five-minute movie.”