Once Upon a Time in Hol­ly­wood is return­ing to cin­e­mas, longer than ever

Quentin Taran­ti­no​’s Once Upon a Time in Hol­ly­wood was the film of the sum­mer, its upbeat pop tunes and sun-dap­pled cin­e­matog­ra­phy a per­fect accom­pa­ni­ment to (or just an air-con­di­tioned retreat from) the hot­ter months. Now, how­ev­er, audi­ences will get the chance to see how Cliff Booth and Rick Dal­ton play in less clement weather.

Taran­ti­no and Sony announced plans yes­ter­day to bring his ninth fea­ture back to the­aters start­ing this Fri­day, and in an extend­ed ver­sion. Hav­ing just declared that he would not trim any footage from the cut for a pos­si­ble Chi­nese release, the film­mak­er has dou­bled down and added ten fresh min­utes for this re-release timed to end-of-year awards voting.

1,000 the­aters in North Amer­i­ca will screen the new edit, accord­ing to an item from The Hol­ly­wood Reporter. The film pre­vi­ous­ly clocked in at a whop­ping 2 hours and 41 min­utes, push­ing the new run time to strafe the three-hour mark, but Sony’s not wor­ried about scar­ing any­one off.

The studio’s big bet is that movie­go­ers unde­terred by a 161-minute sit in a the­ater will glad­ly show up for a lit­tle bit more of the same, with the hope being that anoth­er the­atri­cal run could boost the already-impres­sive box-office fig­ures. (The film has raked in $139 mil­lion domes­ti­cal­ly, the six­teenth-high­est total for the year and a hand­some pay­day by QT standards.)

When Tarantino’s new pic­ture went pub­lic, a com­mon sen­ti­ment from view­ers leav­ing the audi­to­ri­um was a wish to sim­ply spend more time inhab­it­ing this rich, bustling world. In both the return to exhi­bi­tion and the elon­ga­tion, Tarantino’s giv­ing the peo­ple what they want, though the ques­tion remains what footage he’s pick­ing up off of the cut­ting-room floor.

More antics at the Play­boy Man­sion? Some addi­tion­al lines for Sharon Tate? Or maybe it’ll just be fur­ther face time for the true star of movie, Brandy the Dog.