DVD.IGN Peter Jackson interview regarding possibility of an Extended Cut:
IGN: Looking at the Production Diaries, it appears that there were a number of scenes that were either truncated or removed, such as the swamp sequence.Jackson: Really, there's quite a few scenes that were cut, yeah.
IGN: Do you have plans to cut them back in for a longer director's cut?Jackson: I hope so, yeah. That's pretty much Universal's decision, but I'm hoping at some point we'll get a chance to actually have a longer version of Kong because there's certainly a lot of very good stuff; there's a lot of dinosaur action, there's more dinosaur sequences, and as you saw, there's the journey across the swamp. There's a couple of sequences between Ann and Kong that we trimmed out. There's actually some nice scenes that, well, that's one of the beauties with DVD is that often you do get a chance with extended cuts to finally complete those scenes and finish them. But that's a decision that's very much in Universal's hands and they haven't made that decision yet.
IGN: I had a chance to preview the extras on the DVD, and I noticed there wasn't a commentary track on this. Did you make that decision to hold off, or was that something you planned for that possible future version?Jackson: It was basically a decision that was based on the way that we did the Lord of the Rings films, which was that we never did commentary tracks on the initial release of the film and we saved our commentary tracks for an extended cut. On the Lord of the Rings films, the commentary track - well, you can really do a commentary track only once, and we just got into a pattern on the Lord of the Rings films of saving the commentary track until we had the extended cut and then doing the commentary track to that particular cut. So we've done the same thing here, even though Universal hasn't made up their minds whether they want to do an extended cut, we're saving the commentary track so that if they do make that decision, that's where the commentary track will end up going.
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