the film that covers everything and pleases everyone would be 6 hours long and play like an extended 'behind the music' ep.

covering the death row era and the ruthless / DR beef in full depth easily adds another dozen speaking parts + character development to the script and an hour plus to the runtime. giving ren equal weight to the 3 leads, as i've seen many people suggest, adds another 40 minutes of footage that in all likelihood isn't even that compelling. an actor (brandon lafourche) was cast as arabian prince and appeared in the early photoshoots but the role ended up being eliminated (wisely imo)

“It felt like a mistake to focus on someone who wasn’t in the group for that long,” Gray shrugs. “It was a challenge to narrow ten years down into two hours. There’s so much that went on, but the bits that were informative and entertaining... those priorities stood out.”

i know some of the omissions people are grousing about are actually in the original cut, which reportedly ran close to 4 hours. like some of this dre stuff:

>having to do time in jail......which made him reevaluate his
>life and the situation at death row and decide that he wanted
>to go a more positive direction. This was always the most
>interesting thing part of Dre's life to me.....how even though
>he didn't grow up being a fucked up person, the music industry
>changed him into something he wasn't.....he saw that he was
>headed down the path of destruction and changed.

was filmed, and edited into the trailer (https://youtu.be/oyoew4T74_w?t=1m43s) but ultimately cut.

i just think it's a no-win, thankless situation in a lot of respects, and i give gary gray a shitload of credit for pulling it off as well as he did. can't please everyone.