Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard is more than happy with the under two-hour runtime of the film, but there's a lot more footage of the monsters out there.

Wingard spoke to Den of Geek and revealed that far more footage exists from his new film. But just because he could make a massive cut of the MonsterVerse film, doesn't mean he thinks it's a smart move. "There’s certainly enough footage to make a five-hour version of this film, I’m sure," Wingard said. "But making a longer film is easier than making a shorter film in a lot of ways. For me, this is the version that worked the best, and I don’t see any reason to do a director’s cut. Probably the only thing if, 10 years from now, somebody said, 'Hey, do you want to do a director’s cut of Godzilla vs. Kong?' I would probably just use that time to have another 40 days in the sound mix because I just love that kind of thing."

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While Wingard never calls out anyone specifically, it's hard not to read between the lines in regard to Warner Bros.' other recent epic HBO Max release. In fact, he thinks the entire idea of overlong director's cuts has had a negative impact on people's perceptions.

"The funny thing about that is I don’t even know that people believe it whenever I say this kind of thing," Wingard said. "Because I think everybody’s been so kind of led to believe that a director’s cut is always longer and there’s always more."

Of course, shooting so much footage and cutting it means certain plots -- and characters -- get the axe. "We did shoot more and there were other parts of the plot that we cut out," the director said. "There were other actors and stuff. I mean, Lance Reddick is top billed in the film, because he used to be in the movie more, but his role is very small because we tweaked a couple of plot points."

"Unfortunately, sometimes just a tweak of the plot means that whole scenes have to go because they don’t fit anymore," Wingard continued. "Ultimately all the stuff we shot was just stuff that worked on its own merits, I think. Some of it did [work]. Some of it didn’t work. But most importantly, it wasn’t supporting the movie as a whole and the experience that I wanted to give people."

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For Wingard, Godzilla vs. Kong is exactly the film he set out to make. "I always knew that I wanted this movie to be two hours or under," he said. "I never wanted it to be over that. I wanted this to be a thrill-a-minute kind of ride. So yeah, could I make an extremely long director’s cut? Absolutely. But I would never want to… For better or worse, this is my movie."

Directed by Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, Godzilla vs. Kong stars Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry. The film is now playing in theaters and on HBO Max.

Source: Den of Geek