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A confession: I gotDuned bySpider-Verse.
The credits rolled, the lights went up.Drats!
BothDune: Part OneandAcross the Spider-Verseare part of a hallowed movie tradition: the two-parter.
Heres a taxonomy of all the different ways Hollywood sells you two tickets to one story.
Why wrap up a series with one movie when you could wrap it up with two?
Other franchises were not so lucky.
Outside the realm of Obama-era YA adaptations, results have been better.
Others have been more arbitrary.
Similar logic may be in play for the upcomingWickedmovies.
An original film thats too long
Theres a famous story about the creation ofThe Power Broker.
Rather than cut out whole swaths, Caro floated the idea of releasing the book in two parts.
His editor, Robert Gottlieb, set him straight: We might get people interested in Robert Moses once.
We could never get them interested in him twice.
That maxim does not apply to A-list directors.
When every movie of yours is an event, anything worth releasing is also worth releasing twice.
A similar thing happened with Steven SoderberghsChe, which the director split in two during the script phase.
