Hey guys! Horrorella here...
Let me preface this by saying that this info has not be finalized at all, but in the war of The Weinsteins Vs. The Rest of the World over which SNOWPIERCER cut U.S. audiences will get to see (director Bong Joon-Ho's original cut, or the one that has 20 mintes sliced out of it so American viewers can keep up), things might be looking up.
Bong and the Weinsteins have been going around and around regarding what version will be released to the States, and THR is reporting that Bong may have made some headway in his argument for the original cut. In an interview at the Mar De Plat Film Festival, he stated:
“I stayed in New York for two weeks before coming here to Mar del Plata, mostly because of this matter,” said the director. “And the good news is that after all the speculation and comments about that 20 minutes cut, and considering the original version that was released in Korea and France will also be released in Japan and Hong Kong, we now have been talking a lot about keeping the original cut for the U.S. release, so what I can say is … have faith.”
So again, not a done deal, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will all end the way we want it to - with us being able to view Bong's uncut vision of the post-apocolyptic tale. And it sounds like the positive reception in foreign markets is helping to shape what will happen over here.
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