Basically I will watch a movie and then find out later, that there was a much longer and better version of that movie that was intended, but the studio producers will then cut it down much shorter, and perhaps remove a lot of depth of the story in the process.
For example, I read that the movie The Crow: City of Angels was originally 160 minutes long, but then when producer Harvey Weinstein saw, it, he demanded that it cut down to around 90 minutes and they ended up having to reshoot a good portion of it, just to tie scenes together, cause they had to change a lot of the plot around to fit 90 minutes, since they were taking a lot out.
I've heard of this happening on other movies as well, where the producer will see the director's cut, and then say no, and then cut a lot out and also reshoot parts. But what I don't get is, why don't the director and producer just work together from the beginning, and come up with a movie they both want to make and do it together from the start, so there are no hidden surprises at the end, that result in having to reshoot new material, which costs more money.
Don't the producers hate having to increase the budget on reshoots, when it's already done, and they allowed the director to do something they didn't like? I was just curious. What do you think?
For example, I read that the movie The Crow: City of Angels was originally 160 minutes long, but then when producer Harvey Weinstein saw, it, he demanded that it cut down to around 90 minutes and they ended up having to reshoot a good portion of it, just to tie scenes together, cause they had to change a lot of the plot around to fit 90 minutes, since they were taking a lot out.
I've heard of this happening on other movies as well, where the producer will see the director's cut, and then say no, and then cut a lot out and also reshoot parts. But what I don't get is, why don't the director and producer just work together from the beginning, and come up with a movie they both want to make and do it together from the start, so there are no hidden surprises at the end, that result in having to reshoot new material, which costs more money.
Don't the producers hate having to increase the budget on reshoots, when it's already done, and they allowed the director to do something they didn't like? I was just curious. What do you think?