So it’s hard to figure out what happened with Jones and “Warcraft.” It’s as if the endeavor swallowed him whole. (Plus: If one Sam Rockwell is good, two Sam Rockwells are great.) Jones’ 2011 follow-up, the time-travel puzzle “ Source Code,” felt like a bit of a let-down by comparison but it was thrilling and challenging, and it showed his evolution as a filmmaker with a bigger cast and more expensive toys. His debut, “ Moon,” was my favorite movie of 2009 it was about mind-blowing, existential stuff but it had real verve, immediacy and heart. With just two features to his credit, Jones has shown a real knack for taking complex, sci-fi stories and telling them in clever, intimate ways. It's purely in my head." Nevertheless, Jones is "equally proud and furious about Warcraft", and would be open to the suggestion of a sequel.And it brings me no joy to report that to you because “Warcraft” comes from a filmmaker whose work I’ve been a big fan of: Duncan Jones. So there is no possibility of ever being a director's cut. When you keep making those little changes, suddenly you're basically spending all of your time trying to work out how to patch up what has been messed around with." As a result, a lot of scenes ended up not being filmed or omitted in an early phase: "They cease to exist because the effects work never gets done. When you make a little change it doesn't seem like a big deal. You get these little changes which are constantly course correcting you. You're changing things around a three-and-a-half-year process. Then sets change for whatever reason and notes come in. You go through a writing stage right up to the deadline of shooting the thing.
However, he denied that cutting out those 40 minutes were solely responsible for the pacing issues, and has put rumors of an extended version to rest: "Trying to make a movie like Warcraft, you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts. Director Duncan Jones has acknowledged the problems, and stated that his initial cut of the movie was about 40 minutes longer. Some viewers suspected that a lot of footage may have been deleted in post-production (possibly on studio orders), which would open up the possibility of a director's cut. One of the complaints about the film was directed at its fast pacing and editing problems.
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