Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One is already long, clocking in at 2 hours and 36 minutes. However, the movie's original cut was even longer, reaching almost 4 hours. Now, fans are asking Paramount Pictures to release the extended version of Mission: Impossible 7.
The demand comes after the longer cut was revealed by one of the movie's editors, which featured a lengthy 90-minute climactic sequence.
In a recent interview with Variety, Dead Reckoning editor Eddie Hamilton revealed that the movie was nearly four hours long and had no music. Director Christopher McQuarrie reportedly had to make some tough decisions with the film's theatrical version.
"The first time we watched it, it was nearly four hours long and had no music," Hamilton revealed. "It was a tough watch because it was the first time Chris and I had ever watched the movie from beginning to end. Not having any score was a very strange experience. It's almost a silent movie because there were no sound effects either."
One of the major set-piece action sequences in the movie was centered around a train that the production team had to build from scratch. Hamilton shared that the epic sequence was originally "about an hour-and-a-half long" in the movie's first cut. The ravine crash sequence featured in the climax was three minutes long on its own. The post-production team trimmed down the train sequence to around "50 minutes in the finished movie."