‘Event Horizon’ Director Says They Would Need to Pull a ‘Snyder Cut’ to Restore Missing Footage

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impossible for “Event Horizon” to return with new material. “So it’s just not there,” Anderson told Entertainment Weekly. “I think to really reinstitute what the old cut was, you’d need to probably do what they did with the Snyder Cut where you have to go and shoot some material again.” Anderson is referring to “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” released on HBO Max in 2021.

The four-hour film, featuring some newly shot material and a completion of previously shot footage, is an extended version of Snyder’s original plans for “Justice League” prior to his departure from the film midway through production.

Joss Whedon was brought on to complete the movie, which arrived in theaters in 2017 to poor reviews and disappointing ticket sales.

Though before you run off and begin plotting an online campaign to #ReleasetheAndersonCut, you should know that the theatrical version doesn’t appear to have made sweeping changes to his original vision. “I reduced the running time of the disturbing images, but actually didn’t take much imagery out,” Anderson said. “All I did was, what had been a three-second cut, sometimes became a three-frame cut.