When Paul Feig‘s Ghostbusters was released onto home video back in 2016, the release came with an “Extended Cut” of the film that ran 17-minutes longer than the theatrical version of the comedy-horror reboot. Naturally, that cut included multiple scenes that were removed for the theatrical release, but even that cut is a lot shorter than the true extended cut.
As Feig revealed to Collider way back in 2016, his original cut of the film ran a whopping 3 1/2 hours long! Feig had explained to the site, “The editor’s first cut was 4 hours and 15 minutes, and I trimmed that down to a slim 3 and a half hours (laughs). We generate a lot of stuff and I always wanna have all the underpinnings of a big, emotional story, and because of that it just added a lot of extra scenes that as you’re going through, you know you have to make a lot of choices because I knew I had to bring this down under two hours.”
Indeed the 2016 film was ultimately cut down to 1 hour, 56 minutes for its theatrical release, later beefed up to 2 hours, 13 minutes for the aforementioned home video “Extended Cut”.
So will we ever see this 3 1/2 hour cut of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters? In the wake of Warner Bros announcing that the infamous “Snyder Cut” of Zack Snyder’s Justice League is coming to HBO Max next year, Feig took to Twitter to again make mention of the Super Extended Cut of Ghostbusters, while also noting that he’d be “happy to share” that version of the movie.
With streaming services currently eager to increase their subscriber numbers by offering up exciting new content during the quarantine, well, let’s just say anything is possible right now.
If you want it, ask Sony to cross the streams and make it happen!
There’s a three and a half hour cut of Ghostbusters: ATC I’d be happy to share. #FeygerCut https://t.co/zTVE4bDPFm
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) May 21, 2020
