The first cut of the movie came in at 3 hours, 25 minutes, meaning it needed substantial editing to get it down to a length appropriate for cinematic release.

“That’s scary,” says Scalia in this exclusive clip from the Robin Hood Blu-ray and DVD, out Tuesday. “That’s the pain you get and [everybody involved has] to face that. Then you have to say, ‘OK, how am I going to lose at least an hour?’ And you think about it. You know, you gotta lose a third of the movie.”

Scalia, who won back-to-back Academy Awards for best film editing on Scott’s Gladiator and Black Hawk Down in 2000 and 2001, said the ongoing collaborative process eases the difficult task of hacking a film down to size. Find out more about Scalia and Scott’s work together in the clip above.

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Authors: Lewis Wallace

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