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    James Gray Says ‘Ad Astra’ Was Taken Away From Him and Made Longer by 20th Century Fox

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    2. MarvelsGrantMan136 on

      Gray:

      >”I control everything completely on this [‘Paper Tiger’] and, actually, I didn’t on ‘Ad Astra.’ That film was taken away from me. That’s not my cut of the movie. You get into discussions and debates, there’s a studio, then the studio [20th Century Fox] got sold to Disney. You get caught in that stuff. The movie was $80 million, ‘Paper Tiger’ was $15 million.”

      >”I like to work on that scale because I don’t think it’s productive for people to just change your movie around and you get the blame anyway.”

      >“It would have been a very different movie. It would be 12 minutes shorter. I’m the only director who makes a shorter director’s cut. I hope someday I’ll do it. I mean, it’s obviously not up to me, but I would love to do it — it would be thrilling for me.”

    3. Dead-O_Comics on

      There’s 2 different movies here, so I could believe it.

      There’s a self-reflective journey through the void to reconnect with kin, and then there’s space pirates and killer chimps.

    5. Pal__Pacino on

      It’s still a very good movie, but I thought within the first 10 minutes that Pitt’s inner narration was superfluous and out of place.

    6. artpayne on

      I’m one of the few people who actually liked this movie. It’s basically a stylish take on *Apocalypse Now* in space.

    8. bwweryang on

      Oh, this is shocking to me! As someone who loved that movie as is, I’m surprised to learn the version we got wasn’t very much his voice. Just doesn’t feel like something handled by the studio.

    9. GuildensternLives on

      12 minutes isn’t that big of a difference. I’m curious where that would have come from, a couple of scenes or from throughout the whole movie.

    11. Ayrios440 on

      Why does Brad Pitt look so odd in this movie? He just doesn’t look like Brad Pitt.

    13. ComfortableCare8897 on

      Has 20th Century Studios and Searchlight made changes after they were bought by Disney?

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