Have you actually seen the longer version in its final form? IF not, that should say it all, ie. you're just guessing.
No other info you've provided actually supports (all that much) your conclusion about the eventual longer version being what you claimed. All we can say is there will very...
That has nothing to do w/ whether the eventual longer version will be better or Costner's original intention/ideal.
Many films flop... even if they're actually great... NVM whether everyone must agree that a film is good or great, LOL...
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That there are more footage shot than included in the theatrical version doesn't automatically mean the longer version will be better or what Costner truly intended to be his ideal. You're really just jumping to conclusion on that w/out actually knowing what the longer version will be like nor...
Yeah, NVM that 1.85:1 isn't actually 16x9 anyway, heh.
The most common ARs for TV/streaming these days are 16x9 and 2:1 near as I can tell. Well, maybe 2.35:1 is becoming almost as common too.
It just seems like he wants to squeeze the facts into his own beliefs about Horizon based mostly on...
Hmmm... not too sure... but 1883, which would presumably be a good example for comparison and had 10 episodes avg-ing maybe 55min each, apparently cost ~$170M to produce. That comes to ~$50M or so for 3 episodes, which would be close to the length of Horizon P1.
However, the somewhat more...
Probably only appeals to a relatively small minority of movie-going men nowadays (and mostly older, maybe mostly Gen-X-or-older, men who were already interested in westerns from long ago).
Yeah, cinema has changed for the long haul... whether actually for "good" is another story -- I know you...