The 4-hour cut of Blade Runner 2049 had much longer "baseline test" scenes
Just about a year ago, Blade Runner 2049 editor Joe Walker revealed that director Denis Villeneuve’s original cut of the film was four hours long and split into two parts, with the first half focusing on Ryan Gosling’s K learning about who he is (or who he thinks he is) and the second half starting after the high-tech sex scene between K and Mackenzie Davis’ character. Walker said there was never really any intention of releasing the movie as a four-hour epic, and he said back then that a lot of the cuts involved simply trimming the dialogue, but now Walker has given some more details to Collider on what was cut—and it definitely sounds like it was nothing particularly crucial.
