DVD Talk Forum - Poseidon : Extended Version

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Originally Posted by Filmmaker

My guess is it is a revisionist extended cut; the director's cut is what was in theaters, but apparently Peterson isn't too prideful to admit when he made a bad call.

Who says this is even Peterson's call? When Spiderman 2.5 was announced, Raimi said he didn't have anything he wanted to put back into the film, but the studio wanted an extended cut, so they started to make one. When Bad Santa was released on DVD, an unrated "Bader Santa" cut was made, but it wasn't the Director's Cut of the film, which comes out this year.

This could be a case of the studio seeing an economic advantage of creating an extended cut of the film, and Peterson simply not objecting.