Zack Snyder Reveals Batman v Superman Deleted Scenes on R-Rated Cut

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Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice had just been released in theaters and apparently, there are a couple of mysteries about the film that can only be found in its R-rated Blu-ray version, or what director Zack Snyder calls his "director's cut."

We already know that Jena Malone's secret character will be revealed in the R-rated cut, so it's safe to assume that what's in the extended version won't be just fluff.

Snyder revealed as much in a recent interview with Collider, telling the website that 30 minutes of footage will be added to -the two-and-a-half-hour long film. The Man of Steel director may not have revealed which characters will be in the cut, but he did say what kind of scenes they're in.

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The 50-year-old filmmaker told Collider:

We call it the Ultimate Cut because to me it's a deeper dive into that world and there are storylines in there that get fleshed out by the longer version… I would say that we didn't really take out much of the Superman/Batman story because I felt like, you know that's kind of the movie, but there was some sort of interstitial stuff that surrounds the story, that kind of finishes some of the ideas that we trimmed back, and I think that's what you get.

Then he went on to the other scenes included in the "Ultimate Cut," which fortunately were removed because of how they would affect ratings and not the quality:

There's a little bit of action, there's a little bit of violence that we trimmed out for the MPAA that we put back. The Batman warehouse rescue, there's a couple shots of Doomsday that were too intense. Then there's a little bit longer ending, sort of the ending sequence, and the opening of the movie, the North Africa sequence is really much different.

It was in there until very recently, so all of it's finished. It was really just a function of time, to be honest. Because the movie's long now, long-ish—I don't think it's long, but when you get over two and a half hours the studio starts getting nervous. I'm not JamesCameron who's like ‘No it's three hours, suck it!', which is cool by the way. I just wanted to try and get it to a length that is work-able.

It looks like fans will be missing more than they want to without the stuff inside the R-rated version of Batman v Superman. Quite frankly, I'm intrigued by Jena Malone's role, which may have been accidentally revealed quite a few times over the past weeks.

In any case, people will probably see the new characters once Justice League Part One hits the big screen on November 17, 2017.

Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice is now in theaters.

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