Still, while that may spark some fans to try and get a "Release the Anderson Cut" campaign going for the film, the director remains proud of what Event Horizon is in its current form, despite the early stumbles at the box office. "I think to really reinstitute what the old cut was, you'd need to probably do what they did with the Snyder Cut where you have to go and shoot some material again," Anderson explained. One possible solution? Somehow get the cast back together, de-age them by 25 years, and reshoot that lost footage. Though boutique Blu-ray houses like Scream Factory have made concerted efforts to get their hands on the footage at various points, and whispers all over the internet suggest it might still be out there, Anderson sounds convinced that we'll never get to see more of Event Horizon than what's already present out in the world. But by the time DVD had happened, and the audience for the movie started demanding special editions, they hadn't archived a lot of that stuff. Now if we'd made the movie a couple of years later, they'd have been all over the deleted scenes. And on VHS there was no room for all of these deleted scenes, there was no reason for the studio to keep it. "We were going out on VHS in ancillaries. "The problem with the deleted material is that we were right before the DVD revolution when Event Horizon was released," Anderson said. So, Event Horizon's extra footage was basically never prioritized. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the 25th anniversary, Anderson explained why so much of that footage is apparently lost forever: The film arrived right on the cusp of DVDs, which made deleted scenes precious bonus material fodder, but came just a bit too early for those scenes to be really vital for the home release. That left a large amount of deleted footage on the cutting room floor, and while rumors have persisted over the years of this footage resurfacing in a big way, it hasn't happened yet. That meant Anderson and company had to move fast to complete the film and, facing objections from the studio, had to cut out some of the more extreme images collected for the various glimpses into the hellacious landscape of the title ship. It's no secret that the film had a rushed post-production process on its way to a summer 1997 release date, as other films were shifted around on the calendar and Paramount Pictures needed to make sure they had a movie out during blockbuster season. But while more Event Horizon stories might be fun, they're not what some of the film's most devoted fans really want: A director's cut. Anderson's haunted house in space movie has developed a devoted cult following so large and vocal that Amazon is now developing a TV series to give us more of the terrifying sci-fi horror concept. Though it flopped back in 1997, Paul W.S. It's been 25 years since Event Horizon first hit theaters, and the film continues to grow in esteem.
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