For Adam McKay, who I had the chance to sit down with last month prior to the release of the biopic, it was apparently the global warming material in particular that he wishes he didn’t have to remove, especially because of world events and revelations that we’ve seen/heard about in the months since production.
Every film has to kill certain darlings as they make their way through development, and Vice was no exception.
The movie does a great job serving as both an expose and a highlight reel — shining lights in dark places, and also hitting on all the huge events everybody remembers — and squeezing all of that material in required some cuts.