But I thought they were worthwhile seeing even though they’re small. We had time limitations and then budget limitations, and given those restrictions, the film worked without these scenes, so we didn’t do them.
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We recorded the sound for them, we boarded them” but they weren’t absolutely essential to the movie and we had very limited resources. Actually there are a couple that I would’ve liked to have done that we prepared to do. And it didn’t really come together until very recently when they said, “Do you have any scenes that you would have liked to have done?” and I said, “Yeah. And so at one point we talked about putting it in 3D, sort of two and a half D, I think we talked about an IMAX version at one point, which is just blowing it but being able to reconfigure the framing or something like that. But if you can precede a Blu-ray version of it or DVD that’s different, then there’s an economic way to sort of make it work. So not necessarily a wide release, but kind of getting it back to the theatrical venue, and commercially there’s not a lot of incentive for that. Question: How did the Signature Edition come about, what was the process in adding a new scene to the film and polishing it up?īRAD BIRD: I had been talking with Warner on and off for ten years about doing something to kind of reiterate the movie a little bit in order to give it some sort of small presence like a kin to the version of Blade Runner they did, where they did a new cut of Blade Runner.