Margot Robbie Says There’s A 20-Hour Cut Of Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

There’s always a longer version of a Quentin Tarantino movie. The director has been threatening to do a TV series for a long time; it feels inevitable like he will do one eventually. He’s been gearing up for it too. He created a chaptered mini-series version of “The Hateful Eight” for Netflix, and he’s talked about doing the same for “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” some kind of extended cut that he could potentially do as a series.

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Well, in a recent interview with Variety, Margot Robbie says he has enough material for what would be at least twenty episodes if you were to chunk them into one-hour pieces.

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“I’d love to watch the five-hour cut of every movie I’ve ever done,” She said in an interview about “Promising Young Woman,” a movie she executive produced. “There’s a 20-hour cut of “Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood” that would…there’s so much more that you didn’t get to see, that we shot that was amazing, and for a million reasons obviously, can’t make the cut.”

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As for the Ayercut version of David Ayer’s “The Suicide Squad,” Warner Media recently said they would not be releasing that version, and Robbie echoed the same. “Not to my knowledge, there is not a David Ayer cut that is in the works or going to be released.”

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But let’s parse the original quote. Does that really mean 20-hours, or is that just, you know, the kind of exaggerated version of, “we have hours and hours of potential footage we could have added to the movie.”

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Look, we’re going to guess the latter; there’s not actually a 20-hour cut, but there probably is a good five or six-hour version.

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I mean, you could take her literally, but I doubt it. Will we ever see that? I would imagine so. Tarantino is already doing a novel version of “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” with a different ending and new parts arriving this summer that he wrote. It seems inescapable that he will eventually release an extended version to Netflix or whoever is the biggest bidder.

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The slightly more interesting question is this. If Tarantino can do this with “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” what’s to stop him from doing this with all his movies and releasing extended versions? Presumably, everything from “Kill Bill” on up could be much longer if he wanted.