Info: 'Kong - Skull Island' (Shifting Aspect Ratios) on HBO...

Apparently HBO is showing the shifting AR version of Kong: Skull Island, much to the director’s chagrin:

Jordan Vogt-Roberts @VogtRoberts
Dear @HBO. Based on twitter, it seems you’re playing the AIRPLANE edit of Kong: Skull island that shifts aspect ratios. I begrudgingly made this version to preserve my original framing in certain sequences. Why are you playing this compromised instead of the original? Ugh…

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri
Confirmed.
https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DPtJvg2UEAAINBo.mp4

While it’s apparently not the director’s preference, it seems worth preserving. Just an FYI for those with the tools and interest.

Now that I’m watching it, it makes more sense. This “airplane edit” is shifting aspect ratios, but pan and scanning the slow scenes and widening for the action scenes. It’s completely different shifting aspect ratios from the IMAX.

Not sure it’s worth preserving, but it was at one point Director-approved.