"What, Warner Bros. isn't satisfied with Ridley's edited version?"
Hearing the news brought by Thomas, Martin wasn't too surprised. Production companies cutting the director's version was a common practice in the industry and often the key to a film's success.
He asked, "What exactly happened?"
Thomas had inquired about the situation: "Jon Berg, the president of Warner Bros., thinks the director's cut is too long, nearly three hours, which is not conducive to scheduling. He brought in the film's editors to personally handle the trimming, aiming to reduce the runtime to within 130 minutes."
These words reminded Martin of "Kingdom of Heaven," exactly the same scenario.
But he also knew that such situations were constantly occurring in Hollywood, with "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Pharaoh and the Gods" being just typical examples among hundreds of director's cuts edited each year.
