Bryan Singer explains X-MEN: APOCALYPSE deleted scenes; wanted more Jubilee.

Continuing his X-MEN: APOCALYPSE discussion with Fandango, director Bryan Singer explains why certain scenes were cut from the film, including the mall scenes where Jubilee would’ve used her plasmoid projection powers.

“It’s strange for the audience sometimes because they say, ‘It’s a good scene, why did you remove it?’ But if you sat in a theater and watched it with all those scenes back in, it may seem good, but slow. And I don’t want the audience to feel that.”

That makes sense.

“There will be no alternate cut of this movie,” he confirms. “There will be nothing like the Rogue Cut or anything like that. I’m not a big fan of director’s cuts or extended editions, I never have been. In the case of Apocalypse, I removed what would be considered a conventional amount from the movie to protect what we call the collective experience of the feature theatrically. How it feels pace wise and movement wise.”

Jubilee fans are feeling the pain as the character (played by Kea Wong) had her only power scene in X2 deleted as well. Rest assured, we’ll at least be able to watch it on the DVD/Blu-ray, as Singer says “We do have a moment where Jubilee uses her powers that you’ll see on the DVD. I wanted more Jubilee.”

Then give us more Jubilee!

On the fun-looking mall sequence (removed due to tone and pacing), he says “There was also a significant moment that sadly I had to cut. When they’re moving through the mall and Nightcrawler remarks about the other people that “they don’t fear us.” And he thinks the mall is this paradise, and that was my homage to Moscow on the Hudson, when Robin Williams came over to America during the height of the Cold War and saw a Bloomingdales and thought it was a temple. But no, it was just an ‘80s mall!”

According to the site, Singer doesn’t rule out a function on the Blu-ray that would allow you to insert these scenes into the movie, teasing it’s something they’re tossing around, but says they haven’t figured out whether they’re going to do that yet or not.

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Source: Fandango