Would yall want directors cut for major MCU films?

Like I think I read somewhere that Coogler had a four hour version of BP, and it had me thinking for movies like avengers and future xmen movies. Especially really ambitious ones. Zack Snyder did it amazingly in BvS in my opinion.

Like I heard russo bros played with the idea of Tony’s death being more gruesome (I even saw a concept art of Tony dying with a missing eyeball 😂) imagine seeing that in their directors cut for endgame. And it could make more $ for the studio, it’s a win for both us fans and the studio.

Would yall want it R-rated too?

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GoBirds852025-12-11 14:55

I would very much like a directors cut of Love and Thunder by a Director that gave a shit about the movie.

Rimailkall2025-12-11 14:59

Those are the director's cuts I'd like to see. Fix Love and Thunder, fix Quantumania, destroy Secret Invasion.

Tony's eyeball hanging out by the optic nerve? Why?

Tamriel-Chad-4202025-12-11 14:56

Nah, it would be unnecessary for most if not all movies.

CommunityDragon1842025-12-11 14:56

I’ll take literally more content gladly

slunksoma2025-12-11 14:58

Yeah why not. Guess they don’t exist due to cgi not being completed but directors cuts/extended editions for D+ in theory is a good selling point

Mtanic2025-12-11 15:00

No, because in a franchise (as much as in a TV show), the director himself is less important than the writer's room or showrunner (in this case the studio itself and Kevin Feige).

jamesbondswanson2025-12-11 20:33

Also directors cuts are just fancy ways of saying “we’re putting the mediocre scenes that were cut for a reason back into the movie so we can have an excuse to sell tickets again in theaters”

FX1142025-12-12 02:26

Directors cuts don't usually get released in theaters.

jamesbondswanson2025-12-12 03:46

Tickets, blue rays, streaming subscriptions whatever. You get my point that it’s just a shameless cash grab that puts lipstick on a pig and tries to pass it for being some definitive version of the movie when it’s really just the same with the shitty scenes that were removed for a reason.

b2bpaul2025-12-11 15:01

I used to watch as many deleted Marvel scenes as I could find, but I can't remember any that would have greatly improved the original cut. I'd only be interested if the director had major problems with the initial edit but I don't believe that has happened so far in the MCU (Thor: TDW is about the closest I can think of and no-one is clamouring for the director's cut of that one!)

Correct-Chemistry6182025-12-12 10:10

I don't know about other films, but I would have preferred to see the High Evolutionary imprisoned scene in the film. It's very important and completely changes the implications of the ending, and while I know it's canon, the average viewer will simply think Rocket pulled a Batman Begins.

chiefbrody622025-12-15 00:06

I would love to see a L&T directors cut, with all the Gorr and god-butchering scenes added back in, but I know we'll never see that.

b2bpaul2025-12-15 19:35

But how would that be a director's cut? The whole concept of them is that it's the version that the director intended the world to see but was denied by "the studio". L&T was the version Taika Waititi wanted out there so you're asking for something else. A God Butcher Cut maybe.

axJustinWiggins2025-12-11 15:03

Incredible Hulk, yes.

I thought a director's cut would help the new Fantastic Four, but found the deleted scenes that were released to be incredibly underwhelming.

demonoddy2025-12-11 15:04

The MCU isn’t really director driven. Now original concepts like America Chavez in no way home or the original plan for doctor strange 2 sure

MarcSpector17012025-12-11 15:08

I'd love to see a Fantastic Four directors cut. Too much of that movie was cut from the theatrical release. It needs another 20 minutes.

hummeI2025-12-11 15:12

Zack Snyder’s BvS was absolutely awful, so if it’s anything like that, no.

Answering the question more directly, it really depends on a movie. Thor 4 really needed more producers’ control, for example, while constant reshoots clearly hurt movies in phase 4 and 5.
So I’d say while there isn’t a need for the director’s cut, it would be great if directors get bigger creative control (see GotG), PROVIDED they have a vision from the start.

chiefbrody622025-12-15 00:10

Really? I was pretty lukewarm on the OG BvS, but me and anyone I know that watched it loved the directors cut. It was 10x better IMO

El-Emperador2025-12-11 15:18

Studios tend to hate director‘s cut versions, because they invariably end up showing how stupid/cowardly/by-the-numbers the studio-mandated decisions were. Control freak Disney especially never allows one to be made. So no hope in hell.

Ben Affleck Daredevil was quite a good movie until tampered with. Same for Amazing Spider-Man. Disney wouldn’t risk losing face showing how the cookie was made.

Big_Life_9472025-12-11 15:20

I would have loved an uncompromised version of Age of Ultron but it’s a bit late for that now since everybody hates Whedon.

There have definitely been times when I’ve watched the deleted scenes of an MCU movie and thought “why the hell did this get cut”. Especially when it’s a more quiet character moment they cut but the actual movie is packed with random joke scenes.

franxxcisco2025-12-11 15:21

I def wanna see a multiverse of madness directors cut. Or what Scott Derrickson’s vision was for a horror MCU movie.

juances192025-12-11 15:23

> (I even saw a concept art of Tony dying with a missing eyeball 😂)

It's one thing to re-incorporate deleted scenes but these kind of ideas that didn't move past the concept stage are a bit trickier.

They'd have to spend $$$ for RDJ to shoot more scenes or create some CGI monstrosity mixed with incomplete footage. I don't think that would work as smoothly.

Bazonkawomp2025-12-11 15:26

I prefer the director’s version of every film a director makes.

RevolutionaryAd65762025-12-12 20:13

The difectors cut of Dr Sleep is worse than the theatrical cut in my opinion. Just ruins the pacing.

Bazonkawomp2025-12-12 20:30

I haven’t seen that movie!

GodFlintstone2025-12-11 15:48

"And it could make more $ for the studio, it’s a win for both us fans and the studio."

I'm not so sure it would though.

Personally, I've always been a fan of seeing movies the way their directors originally intended - even though these versions are often worse than we got in theaters.

But I find this kind of content is usually best reserved for DVDs and Blu-Rays. The problem? Physical media is dying and I really don't think that making Directors Cuts available for digital purchase or on streaming platforms would make that much money.

Sure people will point to Zack Snyder's Justice League as pehaps the ultimate example of how a Director's Cut can radically improve a film.

But that was a case where the stars just aligned.

Snyder wanted the world to see his origal vision for the film AND he had a rabid fan base that wanted to see it as well. In the meantime, Warner Bros was launching HBOMax and was looking for content to drive up its subscriber base.

That was probably a once in a lifetime thing though.

SeekerVash2025-12-11 15:53

I don't think there's much Director's Cuts would help.

Director's Cuts usually improve the movie by adding missing story elements or cut sub-plots. A DC of Lord of the Rings made sense, because there was a lot left out of theatrical. DC's of the Harry Potter series would make sense because there's swaths of story that we didn't see in the theatrical cuts.

But for the bulk of the MCU, it's all there on the screen. A DC of Winter Soldier isn't going to swap Sharon back in as the female lead for example.

That said, \*a lot\* of The Marvels was cut out, that might be interesting. Fantastic 4 is a mess, I don't know why they bothered casting Thing given he's more invisible than the Invisible Girl in that movie, so a DC of that movie might shift it from bad to good.

The holy grail though would be a DC of Brave New World. There's a lot of signs that one had huge amounts of the movie cut out, I suspect BNW would be a completely different movie.

Joranthalus2025-12-11 16:20

No. IW is so near perfect, there’s no reason to do anything with it.

knotsteve2025-12-11 17:09

Just give me a movie I want to watch twice. I haven't felt like watching any recent Marvel movie a second time.

BackgroundEngineer112025-12-11 17:17

Maybe only for some of the more recent films. Love and Thunder seemed to have suffered from too much cutting.

chiefbrody622025-12-15 00:07

It definitely did. It was supposed to be 2 hours 20 minutes or something for the final cut, and then it had to be under two hours and have the darkest scenes cut due to being released too close to MoM.

Long_Ganache_13352025-12-11 17:41

I just wanna see what they did with endgame because of black widows shooting training also Doctor Strange and black panther talking during Starks funeral

FX1142025-12-11 18:27

>Like I think I read somewhere that Coogler had a four hour version of BP

That doesn't mean they cut down his vision, it just means the assembly was long. This happens every time news gets out about the runtime of early cuts. The first pass of a movie is very rough, includes everything, and hasn't been paced up at all. You do not want to see that.

CaptHayfever2025-12-11 18:58

Exactly.
Like, if they told me there's a 2.5-hour director's cut of Love & Thunder with more Gorr action that was cut to reduce runtime & avoid an R rating, I'd believe that. That's reasonable.
But I absolutely do not believe there's a 4-hour director's cut of either Black Panther movie.

Defiant-Band45732025-12-14 18:13

I am more interested in the scenes that were shot with Val and Jane. Natalie Portman said there were3 scenes of Mighty Thor and Val becoming friends. In the movie, Val knows that Jane is Mighty Thor, her relationship with Thor and the fact that she is sick despite the movie not having a scene where they meet.

LeftyNate2025-12-11 21:31

On some of them, yes. I used to watch a lot of the deleted scenes before streaming. Now I don’t even know if they have deleted scenes available on D+.

thefirststarinthesky2025-12-12 05:27

I would like a director cut of Fantastic Four first steps, it felt like a decent chunk of stuff was cut when I watched it for the first time a couple weeks back. It’s still a great film, but there are 2-3 scenes missing, I think to make it truly great.

chiefbrody622025-12-15 00:07

I would love that. Have Malkovich back and have the bonding scene with Moleman and Sue added back in. Also, more Natasha Lyonne.

Correct-Chemistry6182025-12-12 10:09

It wouldn't make much sense.

These films are commissioned projects for a studio. There are exceptions (Gunn for sure, Waititi and Cogler probably; I doubt Raimi and Zhao; the Russos certainly not), but most of the directors who work/have worked with them simply follow their superiors' directives, without the project having any particular personality, except perhaps something vaguely similar to their films.

From this perspective, I see it as unlikely that a director's cut will be made, because the director is simply doing his job.

Cultural_Comfort58942025-12-12 17:56

Good question. But nah.

I’ve never seen a tremendous difference or an actually different story.

Deleted scenes get deleted for a reason. Etc.

Grayx_28872025-12-12 19:40

I wish.

Meizas2025-12-13 07:13

Absolutely! Like the LotR extended versions? I'm surprised we don't get more of those

ashleealcantar2025-12-15 11:15

four hours tho?? idk if i could sit through all that in theaters, but i'd def binge a director's cut at home. and yeah tony losing an eyeball woulda been traumatizing ngl 😂.