Ridley Scott to direct 'The Last Duel'

[Ingwar]

There is 3 and a half hour version somewhere in Ridley's vault

Matt Damon:

Well, there's a three and a half version that we had to whittle down. Knowing this from The Martian too, the way [Ridley Scott] likes to work is, I mean obviously the script changes constantly, Nicole [Holofcener] was there everyday and things change on the fly when you're on the floor and you're like 'This is different than we wrote it, this location is different, maybe I'll say this instead of that.' There's constant changes like that, but Ridley really likes to sit down before you shoot and have a really long pour over the script where you go line by line and he kind of talks out how he's thinking of shooting it. So you can hopefully work, and there aren't many surprises and you can go pretty quickly.

https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/the-last-duels-matt-damon-confirms-there-is-a-much-longer-version-of-the-new-ridley-scott-film

Audio interview with Harry Gregson-Williams

https://thespool.net/podcasts/harry-gregson-williams-the-last-duel-composer-interview-podcast/

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

I hope they release an extended cut on Blu-Ray like they did with The Martian.


Three-way interview with HGW, Janty Yates and Dariusz Wolski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YntJ7gHy6_w

[Andrea90]

In my opinion the theatrical movie is complete. There is everything.

[KiramidHead]

I could maybe have used a few more minutes showing Carrouges and Le Gris' friendship before it all started going to shit, but otherwise the movie felt very complete.

[Andrea90]

Maybe the battles could have been longer.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Ridley likes a certain length even if the picture doesn't particular call for it.

[Kane's other son]

It was a wonderful, visually impressive and very modern movie. Try to catch it in theatres.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

Lots of new BTS today:























Del Toro weights in on The Last Duel:

https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/1451603238147563521

[Local Trouble]

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[Nightmare Asylum]

Good helmet.

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[Andrea90]

Is this film in your opinion loyal to the book? To me it is a lot.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

In some cases it's quite close, in others it deviates a lot, like Le Gris' version of the truth and Marguerite objecting to the idea of a duel.

Overall much closer than I originally suspected.

[SiL]

Just got back from seeing it and still processing.

The one thing I do remember clearly is wondering why they bothered with the half face helmets when you still can barely see their faces while they're being used