Earlier this year, director Zack Snyder revealed that he had plans to release a director’s cut of Sucker Punch. Now, he’s opened up about his plans for the film.
Speaking to Inverse, Snyder confirmed that a director’s cut for the 2011 film is still in the works, and that he’s trying to find the time to make it happen.
“I’m working with Warner Bros. to try and find a window to go back in,” Snyder said. “Even though we did an extended version, it’s not the fully realized movie.”
Snyder also said that, although it’s been more than a decade since the original film’s release, he would like to get some of the main cast back together if he filmed a director’s cut. “I think it’s good [if] I can get those guys, Emily [Browning] and Abby [Cornish] and the crew back in,” said Snyder. “Some reshoots would be amazing.”
The history of a Sucker Punch director’s cut
Sucker Punch stars Emily Browning as Babydoll, a young woman committed to a mental hospital at the beginning of the film. When trapped there, Babydoll journeys into a fantasy world alongside four other patients, all of whom are trying to escape the institution prior to being lobotomized.
The film received mostly negative reviews and grossed approximately $89.8 million at the worldwide box office with a budget of $82 million. While the theatrical cut of Sucker Punch was rated PG-13, an extended R-rated cut with an additional 18 minutes of footage was included in the movie’s Blu-ray release.
Snyder has previously spoken about his desire to make a director’s cut of Sucker Punch, as he told Vanity Fair in 2021 that working on the theatrical version was “the first time where I really faced, like, a true radical restructuring of the film for it to be more commercial.”
A director’s cut of Sucker Punch wouldn’t be the first time Snyder has revisited one of his films. Having stepped away from directing Justice League during post-production in 2017, Warner Bros. Pictures released Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a four-hour-long version of the film matching his original vision, in 2021.
