Sucker Punch star Jamie Chung offers details on the amount of footage cut from Zack Snyder's 2011 psychological fantasy action film. Co-written and directed by Snyder, the film centers on a young woman involuntarily committed to a mental institution who teams with four other prisoners to try and escape before her scheduled lobotomy. The ensemble cast for the film included Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Chung, Carla Gugino, Oscar Isaac, Scott Glenn and Jon Hamm.
Hitting theaters just over a decade ago, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics for its lackluster and hyper-sexualized characters and uninteresting plot and bombed at the box office. Despite this, the visual effects and action did receive some positive reception and a cult following has slowly built for the film over the years. Sucker Punch would mark the first original property from Snyder before helping launch Warner Bros.' DC Extended Universe, which would lead the demolition of his working relationship with the studio and lead to him diving back to the original creative well for Netflix's Army of the Dead.
Chung recently sat down to chat with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss her work on HBO's acclaimed adaptation of horror novel Lovecraft Country and Showtime's upcoming revival of Dexter. The conversation eventually shifted to talking Sucker Punch, in which she revealed there was an exorbitant amount of footage left on the cutting room floor and the more mature rating a director's cut would receive. Read what Chung had to say below:
"[The theatrical cut] is PG-13, but it feels like such an R-rated movie. And I think that’s one of the reasons why they altered the story. It’s been so long, but there would’ve been a lot more detail. Each scene would’ve been extended by 10 minutes. (Laughs.) We shot the hell out of that movie, and it was so fun. My character was the pilot, but I do know that the fighting sequences were much longer. Gosh, it felt like we trained so long for them. That whole experience in itself was six months, so there’s got to be more out there."
Ten years later and Sucker Punch is certainly one of the more controversial and debatable efforts in Snyder's filmography. Though not nearly as infamous in its production cycle as Justice League, the writer/director has spoken frequently about how misunderstood the film was and how it marked the early signs of problems between him and WB. Given the studio gave in to let him bring his original vision for the DCEU crossover to HBO Max earlier this year, a new fan campaign has gotten underway for the same to happen with Sucker Punch.
With his previous teases of a proper director's cut of the film yet to see the light of day and Browning has talked about some of what made it R-rated previously, it seems plenty was cut. Due to a complication in film rights creating speed bumps for Snyder to properly deliver his vision of Sucker Punch, it seems unlikely the ten-minute segments of footage Chung is referring to will see the light of day. For now, viewers can at least look forward to Snyder's ongoing Army of the Dead universe at Netflix with the upcoming live-action prequel film and animated series.
Source: THR
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