Troy Director 39-s Cut Fixed • Exclusive

: 196 minutes (approx. 33 minutes longer than the theatrical cut). : Wolfgang Petersen.

When Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy marched into theaters in May 2004, it arrived with the crushing weight of monumental expectations. Armed with a $175 million budget, an ensemble of Hollywood elite led by Brad Pitt, and the timeless DNA of Homer’s The Iliad , the film was positioned to be the definitive historical epic of the post- Gladiator renaissance. troy director 39-s cut

Petersen always believed that a much better movie existed somewhere in his raw footage. In 2007, Warner Bros. gave him the chance to prove it. Unleashed from the constraints of a theatrical release, Petersen went back to the editing suite to create the Troy director's cut. This was not a simple cash-grab of "deleted scenes" tacked onto the end. It was a full-scale reconstruction of the film's identity. As a testament to his investment, even the musical score was reworked. In the director's cut, the entire score is by composer Gabriel Yared. Yared had originally scored the entire film, but his work was controversially rejected by the studio in favor of a new score by James Horner mere months before the theatrical release. The Troy director's cut restores Yared's sweeping, melancholic compositions, fundamentally altering the film's emotional tenor. This change alone was a radical act, shifting the film from a standard action-drama to a more tragic, operatic epic. : 196 minutes (approx