To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the film, Almost Famous it is now set to receive the 4K treatment, as well as an extended bootleg cut which features 40-minutes of additional footage.
In a recent interview with IndieWire, Patrick Fugit, the film’s protagonist, William Miller has stated that while he’s seen both the theatrical cut and the bootleg cut, he prefers the bootleg (extended cut) a lot more.
The bootleg cut extended scenes from the traditional movie and also adds a few more brand new scenes into the mix as well.
Fugit said, “I’ve come across the theatrical cut when I was staying in hotels or something like that, and it’ll be on, and I’ll be like, ‘Ooh, I’m going to watch some of this movie.’”
“And then I’ll realize that it’s the theatrical cut, and I’ll be like, ‘Nah, no, no, no. I’ve got to wait for the Bootleg cut.’ If people haven’t seen the Bootleg cut, I highly recommend it to them. Man, if you dig the original cut, the Bootleg cut is kind of where it’s at for me.”
He continued, “When I first saw the theatrical cut, it felt so short to me, because it was seven months of my life condensed into a feature-length film, and I was like, ‘Well, that’s not what happened. That’s like the footnotes of what happened.’”
Also in the interview, Fugit also recalls how he asked its film director, Cameron Crowe if his character ever ends up going to Morocco with Penny Lane, or shall we say: Lady Goodman.
“So I know where it goes,” Fugit says.
“Cameron and I talked about that when we were [filming] in New York, and I asked him the same thing. I was like, ‘Now that he knows Lady Goodman, do they ever go to Morocco? Do they ever do the things they say they’re going to do?’ And Cameron is like, ‘Brother, no, they don’t.’”
Fugit continued, “He’s like, ‘But what William will discover is Polexia a few years down the line, and they will have a relationship. They will have this amazing chemistry that they didn’t really track [before] because, obviously William was infatuated with Penny Lane and Polexia was doing her own thing.’”
“The idea [with Penny] was like, ‘Nope, it’s just this thing that happened, and it’s this fond memory, and it’s the first love and all that sort of thing, but it’s never going to manifest.”
