Beauty and the Beast is barely out in cinemas and already fans are clambering around for any additional footage and scenes to watch.
Well, you're in luck because director Bill Condon has revealed there will be an extra NINE minutes of footage on the DVD and Blu-ray.
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In an interview with Collider, Condon said the film was originally a whopping 20 minutes longer and it was cut just simply tightening up here and there rather than deleting whole sections, however they're there.
"There are deleted scenes, brief ones. For example, the movie has a big climax where the household staff fights against the villagers as in the animated film, so we had gags there.
"The villages lasses getting attacked by the stove or Le Fou getting attacked by Monsieur le Toilet."
He revealed that he would like to show the film before all the special effects were added to show everyone what it looked like.
"It's funny, I've been thinking it would be fun, one theatre, one night to show that first cut where it's just Dan, because I think people would see how similar it is.
"It would drive the point home how much of his facial expressions and performance comes through intact in the CGI version."
As well as all these little tidbits, the director recently let slip some spoilers regarding Belle's mother's backstory and how she died.
"Something that you have to do in a live-action version as opposed to the animated version is fill in the blanks," he revealed.
"That's the stuff we started to fill in, and it was those questions that led to the new songs — all of which centre on those ideas."
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