CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT red band trailer (no, it’s not porn)
The new version of the film was an Official Selection at Cannes 2023, and will be premiering in North America (and around the world) soon!
This is an entirely new cut of the film, assembled from 96 hours of original negatives. All the hardcore footage that was added to the original has been removed, restoring the unseen story and performances.
The original location audio was restored for this version (the original is all ADR, no location audio was used).
Every frame is either an alternate take or an alternate angle, meaning 100% of the film is “never-before-seen” footage.
And responding on Reddit to someone asking if it was a cheap project stitching extra footage together to make a quick buck...
So it’s not really “extra footage,” we had all 96 hours of original camera negative. This project took years, it’s anything but an easy quick buck. At one point we had a dozen people going through every frame of film digitally cleaning and restoring them. The movie’s 3 hours long, and there are 24 frames of film in a single second. We cleaned them all. This movie literally went through every step of post production that any movie goes through plus before that could happen all the raw footage and original audio had to be digitized and restored. And, yo, Cannes is kinda prestigious, and yo we’re kinda proud.
I've actually never seen the original (was too young to rent it back in days of video stores and hadn't thought about it since way back then) so I'm interested to check this new version out. Looks cool.
From the producer:
And responding on Reddit to someone asking if it was a cheap project stitching extra footage together to make a quick buck...
I've actually never seen the original (was too young to rent it back in days of video stores and hadn't thought about it since way back then) so I'm interested to check this new version out. Looks cool.