Extended Cut of Backrooms Hits Theaters Soon
IGN • • entertainment
Key Points:
- An extended cut of the movie Backrooms, titled Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition, will be released in theaters on July 3, featuring 15 minutes of additional footage exclusive to theaters.
- The new footage will be inserted after the credits, leaving the original film's structure unchanged, though the exact content of the extra scenes remains unclear.
- This theatrical re-release may be a strategy by A24 to boost box office performance, potentially competing with other successful films like Obsession.
- Director Kane Parsons is reportedly planning a sequel to Backrooms and is considering an adaptation of the game Portal, indicating a busy future for the filmmaker.
- Similar re-releases with added scenes have been done for films like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Avengers: Endgame, though these additions typically do not improve the original movie significantly.
