Zack Snyder Discusses SUCKER PUNCH and Reveals There's a Director's Cut

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch wasn’t well-received by most critics and audiences. I actually enjoyed the film more than a lot of people. The filmmaker recently opened up about the film and revealed that there’s a director’s cut that exists that has yet to be released.

During an interview with Vanity Fair, Snyder explained that Sucker Punch is a protest movie and also shared that it’s the first film where he had to radically change the film so it would be more commercial:

"That is a movie I wrote with my friend Steve Shibuya and Steve and I had been talking about the movie for a long time actually because the movie to me is, you know, people don't acknowledge it, but it's a protest movie in a lot of ways. It's a movie about genre like I was asked at the time, why did you dress the girls like that and I always go 'I didn't dress them like that, you did.'“

That’s a funny comment to me because Snyder is the guy who literally dressed the girls like that in the movie. He’s the guy who signed off on all the designs and made sure those young women looked the way they did. That was all Snyder. He goes on to say:

“I always saw it as an indictment of, in some ways, popular culture. I think at the time I was criticized for it being the opposite, like some sort of sexist like, rant, but it was fun to make and I still love it to this day. That was the first time where I really faced like a true radical restructuring of the film for it to be more commercial and there's a director's cut of that movie that has yet to be released. I'll say that out loud.”

I’d actually be curious to see what the director cut entails and how it’s different than the theatrical cut. I imagine it’s a better representation of the point he was initially trying to get across with his story. It’s unclear if there are any plans to release the director’s cut at some point.

Sucker Punch follows a young woman named Babydoll (Emily Browning) is committed to a mental institution but enters a fantasy world that she creates to cope with her reality -- specifically, a brothel. Babydoll teams up with four other prisoners/dancers before her scheduled lobotomy in the real world, collecting various items she needs to escape with each item taking her further into the fantasy.

What did you think about Sucker Punch when it was first released?