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Under the supervision of historian Thomas Negovan, an "Ultimate Cut" of the film was created
Story
Follows Caligula as he kills his devious adoptive grandfather and takes control of the decadent Roman Empire, spiraling into depravity, devastation, and madness.. The film is a complete re-imagination of Caligola (1979), based on 96 hours of never-before -seen footage recovered many years after its release. Instead of expanding existing scenes with the new footage, the entire film was edited from scratch, which resulted in a version that doesn’t contain a single frame from the theatrical version. Visual effects were used to enhance scenes and replace cheap sets and backgrounds, and AI technology was used to restore previously unusable dialogue that was plagued with background noises.
Edited from Caligola (1979)
A new music score was composed as well, in contrast to the public domain ballet music. Originally planned for a limited theatrical release in late 2020, this version premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.. As a huge caligula fan i own all there is to own about my fav roman emperor and so when i heard there is a new extended edition of the beloved 1979 film with around 20 or so new footage scenes i was excited and i immediately bought the new spanish blu ray release.Sadly things did not go well with this.This cut has a lot of flaws. In fact all went wrong if u exclude some new deleted scenes.
Those deleted scenes were the only worthy part of the film
U get to see how caligula orders other people to worship his own statues which replaced those of the gods. This scene was great and there are a few more but the good things end here. Unfortunately this is NOT the original take of the film and everything was changed. What i mean is even the voices the way the actors performed was different than the theatrical version and that was not good.
I was tired watching this
More important the divine music which made the original film so much better was not here. The music used here was boring and added nothing to the film. I will only keep this cut cause of the new footage and that’s that. I’m very disappointed of this new extended cut.
