SPECULATION J.J. Abrams REFUSES to restore missing content to The Force Awakens

Abrams, why don't you put your mouth where your mouth is and advocate for the unaltered original trilogy to be released?

 

As I said: the director has every right to do what he/she wants with the movie - it's not up to some guy in a forum to say what is "right" and what is "wrong" (with moviemaking) or "how things should be" or "who is/who isn't a 'real fan'" (whatever that means).

Star Wars (1977) had a grand total of 3 or 4 lines of dialogue about the "State of the Galaxy" and neither ESB or RotJ did elaborate that much further on the subject - and all these movies work perfectly.

TFA basically does the same thing: tells the audience what is needed - other than that, it's a character-driven story, so the movie doesn't waste any time on the "bigger picture" (which, from a storytelling point of view, I think is a sound choice).

 

yes, but I think that it would be better to release those scenes just as a special content, and not in the actual movie

 

J.J. was already asked about this topic by an interviewer a few weeks ago.

Q: 'Length of the first cut?'
A: 'Probably 2:40...2:30 something.'

Q: 'Was that an assembly or was that a first cut?'
A: 'That was first cut.'

Q: 'How many deleted scenes did you have in TFA?'
A: 'We probably have... like partial scenes.'
Q: 'Full scenes?'
A: 'Like a dozen.'

Q: 'Have you already thought about the Blu-ray and will we be getting a lot of these?'
A: 'I'm sure that quite a few of them will make their way to that, sure.'

 

FeelsBadMan

 

Some scenes might reveal more from the future plots than they want to.

I love deleted scenes, and Director's cut, but Star Wars is a completely different beast.

Maybe when they release a box with all the New Trilogy i would be ok with that.

 

It's called a trilogy for a reason. Not all you questions need to be answered in Act I, just like A New Hope didn't explain everything. There are two more films coming to explain things.

Secondly, learn about how editing a film works.

Every director cuts scenes to craft his/her finished film to make it the best it can be. Deleted scenes are not a part of the film, and you have no entitlement to see them, the director has no obligation to release them, nor does anyone have an artistic and legal right to reincorporate what was cut without the approval of the director and intellectual property owner. Abrams has already said the deleted scenes would be on the Blu Ray release as a bonus.

As to why the scenes were cut, expository dialogue often has a way of slowing down the pace of Star Wars movies. George Lucas' solution in the prequels was to show people sitting around talking or slowly walking down hallways talking. It made the films drag miserably and bored the audience to no end. If you want a film that recaptures the speed and excitement of the OT, you only bog the film down with more boring converastions if people have to explain what's going on politically and historically all in one film.

 

I don't think they should be reinserted... maybe Leia and Maz's scene, and the Poe/Rey meeting. But otherwise I like Leia's entrance in the film, and by the sounds of it, most of her deleted scenes take place earlier on.

They had better be on the Bluray/DVD, though.

 

You also wanted to be in it but you're dead .

Seriously, though, the general contract Union DGA rules are that the director has first rights to a "directors" cut and then it's typically up to the studio that owns the rights to release whatever they want .although, they can't legally release anything called "A Directors' Cut" without JJ Abrams . Unless JJ takes his name off of the project, which would be the most moronic career move any one could ever Do Zealand .

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We should have been given the scene of Poe getting back to the resistance, one minute he's on Jakku then he's flying with the boys like, 3 scenes later. Hope its on the blue ray

 

Maybe the extended addition won't be released quite yet because some of the missing content might spoil some content in Episode VIII.

An extended addition will likely be released at a later point.

 

At least Arian can relate to Finn's character of being a janitor .

 

Every movie is the result of the work being made by a lot of people and not only the director. There are producers, there are screenwriters, there are editors... If all the other parties are satisfied with Abrams' work and if 90% of the people say nice things about the movie, then I think everything else is just for is to argue in forums.

And yes, TFA has many resemblances to other movies, both SW and other ones. It's ok, who cares,, the outcome is nice, have fun people!

 

In this case, it's "Disney-Screened" personnel working on it, which is unlike what any other studio does ... The cheese wheel of money turning in their heads to secure things like this, so it's not as much as the his contractual boss accepting his work, rather that it's that stupid rat watching over all SW work now so they know exactly what they're getting instead of pure creativity .

@Pomojema i apologize for the inappropriateness of that rant .

But on a more optimistic note, however, j have cknfidence in Rian Johnson, even above Treverrow, and hopefully he will be given his dues in the studio system that's Disney...and remember, at the end of the day, it's a corporation that's seeking money, ROI, and PURE profits while operating with red-line "losses."

 

People are demanding Abrams/Disney tamper with the released movie like Lucas did with the OT and special editions now?

How about no?