Yes. Characters will be omitted or the roles of characters will go over to characters that are more prominent in the story.

This will be one of the few questions I answer during our current hiatus, but initially, the tone and overall story behind the movie is not changing. However, many things needed to be cut because at the end of the day when looking at it, it became too long and too overstuffed with content.

We felt that the movie should primarily only focus on what the main driving point of the story is. So anything in the movie that doesn’t relate to the main point (be it characters or subplots) were removed to tighten the story and reduce the length of the movie to make it feel more compact.

Because of that, multiple sections needed to be re-written or axed completely to accompany the changes being made. Many of them work far better in this new draft than they did originally and I feel like the story now works on a much greater and intensive level than before. It was also just a great opportunity for us to fix the problems that people had with the Concept Trailer, which meant toning down a bit of the drama so that it doesn’t feel as melodramatic but the scale and scope of the adventure is still there.

So essentially, it equates to the same story, but with a much needed coat of paint.

Not necessarily. I’m answering a few questions here and there, but I won’t be posting anything major on the blog until we’re ready to reveal things. A lot’s going on right now, so just sit tight for just a little while longer.