See my post above. I should add that Cimino’s interim film-—between “Deer Hunter” and “Heaven’s Gate”-—was “Year of the Dragon,” a darn good movie about cops and Chinese criminals featuring Mickey Roarke before plastic surgery.
Dragon was made well after both films.
Read it once several years ago. I enjoyed it but don’t remember a lot of the details.
Nowadays I’m not even sure UA exists except as an owned imprint of MGM, which itself barely exists anymore as a viable entity.