BLADE RUNNER 2049 was Almost a 4-Hour 2-part Film

Blade Runner 2049 was a long movie, but it could have been, much, much longer. Director Denis Villeneuve reportedly considered something that would have made the highly anticipated Blade Runner sequel even longer.

In an interview with Provideo Coalition, Blade Runner 2049 editor Joe Walker revealed that an earlier cut of the film was four hours and Villeneuve considered releasing it in two parts!

"That break revealed something about the story – it’s in two halves. There’s K discovering his true past as he sees it and at the halfway mark he kind of loses his virginity (Laughs). The next morning, it’s a different story, about meeting your maker and ultimately sacrifice – “dying is the most human thing we do.” Oddly enough both halves start with eyes opening. There’s the giant eye opening at the beginning of the film and the second when Mariette wakes up and sneaks around K’s apartment. We toyed with giving titles to each half but quickly dropped that. But what does remain is that there’s something of a waking dream about the film. That’s a very deliberate choice in terms of visuals but also the kind of pace they were striving for on set and the hallucinatory feel in the cut – it’s the kind of dream where you tread inexorably closer to the truth."

It's obvious this plan was scrapped, but the movie still ended up being over 2 and half hours long. Walker said that extra footage is mostly connective scenes and extra dialogue. He even said the theatrical version is superior to the longer cut.

What do you think, would you have liked to see a 4-hour cut of the movie?