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Originally Posted by Lumenskir

I think the bigger factor was that they originally killed off Channing Tatum in the first act, right when his movie dick was exploding all over the place last year, so they had to rejigger things to give him more presence.

That's what the prevailing theory was at first, but they've since refuted it.

Originally Posted by Q and A with Director Jon Chu from 1/23/13

After the delay of the film was announced, there were quite a few theories about why. Do you have a favorite theory?

CHU: Yeah, that was a crazy time! I didn’t want to answer any of the crazy rumors that were happening, at that time, but the reality was the 3D. We were told they wanted it turned into 3D, and luckily we had the time to do that. It just so happens that the March date was a date that they could do it in, and that gave us enough time to focus on it. We didn’t reshoot anything. We didn’t go in and [add] Channing. I’m not going to say what happens to Channing in the movie. You have to watch the movie. But, there wasn’t any of all that crazy stuff, so we just ignored it. It’s funny, when the new trailer came out, everyone was like, “Oh, Channing is in it way more!” I just didn’t want to say anything, but it was very interesting. There were rumors that we shot more things, but we literally didn’t shoot anything. We had done some reshoots a couple days before all that, in January, that were just some pick-up things, but that’s pretty much it.

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