Bloody Madness!
<div class="IPBDescription">What are they playing at??</div> <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Lord Of The Rings actor Christopher Lee is fuming after discovering all of his scenes have been cut from the third and final fantasy epic.
The 81-year-old, who plays Saruman in the first two Lord Of The Rings films, says he was "shocked" and mystified by his exclusion from The Return Of The King - which hits cinemas worldwide next month - and has vowed to boycott the star-studded premieres.
Lee says, "The only reason I'm able to say this is because it was on the internet and has been for some days. I only heard recently.
"Someone has talked and it certainly wasn't me. Of course I am very shocked, that's all I can say.
"If you want to know why you would have to ask the company New Line or director Peter Jackson and his associates because I still don't really know why.
"I can't say any more because I signed a confidentiality agreement and I honored my word."
And after being asked if he planned to attend any of the premieres, Lee snapped back, "No, what's the point? What's the point of going? None at all."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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The 81-year-old, who plays Saruman in the first two Lord Of The Rings films, says he was "shocked" and mystified by his exclusion from The Return Of The King - which hits cinemas worldwide next month - and has vowed to boycott the star-studded premieres.
Lee says, "The only reason I'm able to say this is because it was on the internet and has been for some days. I only heard recently.
"Someone has talked and it certainly wasn't me. Of course I am very shocked, that's all I can say.
"If you want to know why you would have to ask the company New Line or director Peter Jackson and his associates because I still don't really know why.
"I can't say any more because I signed a confidentiality agreement and I honored my word."
And after being asked if he planned to attend any of the premieres, Lee snapped back, "No, what's the point? What's the point of going? None at all."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href='http://www.fox23news.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=E386BF81-269E-4C62-A43F-7ED011F4A365' target='_blank'>Article Here</a>
<a href='http://www.petitiononline.com/smanrotk/' target='_blank'>Online Petition</a>
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hahaha, legend or no, hes so sulky! he makes it sound like he only goes to premieres to see his beautiful face on screen
Both essential to the story.
Ownt by New Line Pictures to be precise, I bet the director is jus a **** off as Chrisopher Lee.
I was wondering how they'd get to fit that all into three hours. I suppose I've been answered...
but it still sucks, WTH they may as well cut off the last 100 pgs from Return of the King, make a fourth movie based on The Hobbit and put th last 100 pgs in that movie.
i didnt really like him in the other movie, but then again i havent read the books, so its all new to me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
and i found the second movie to be way tooooooooo long and boring. except for the fight scenes .. oh the fightscenes <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
pretty much required in the final movie for the stroyline to properly
come together. I haven't read the book(s) so i honestly have no idea.
UPDATE!
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I found this on <a href='http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~extralife/index.php' target='_blank'>http://dynamic5.gamespy.com/~extralife/index.php</a>.
''Here's what Jackson said about cutting Lee out.
''We have decided to save the Saruman sequence for the DVD. It's a great little scene. 7 mins long. Chris is wonderful, as usual. Brad is in about 6 shots. It was a film maker decision - nothing to do with the studio.
The problem is that the sequence was originally shot for The Two Towers, as it is in the book. Since The Two Towers couldn't sustain a 7 min ''wrap'' after Helm's Deep, we thought it would be a good idea to save it for the beginning of the Return of the King. The trouble is, when we viewed various ROTK cuts over the last few weeks, it feels like the first scenes are wrapping last year's movie, instead of starting the new one.
We felt it got ROTK off to an uncertain beginning, since Saruman plays no role in the events of ROTK (we don't have the Scouring later, as the book does), yet we dwell in Isengard for quite a long time before our new story kicks off.''
Yeah, and remove bits and pieces everywhere, put every chapter multiple of 3 out, take the last 49 pages and remove them, include them in another movie that would explain the whole world.
And call it Silmarillion - Director's Version.
Bombadil, ~_^
He just got 0wn3d.
Yup. Fools...
If you had everything you wanted, each movie would run 4 or 5 hours, be filled with minor things that don't matter TOO much.
they could show whole series when there's no super long films to show.. heck you could spend all day there with your friends =3
You mean like Dances With Wolves?
they could show whole series when there's no super long films to show.. heck you could spend all day there with your friends =3 <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
HELL YEAH! Like... a made for T.V. movie. A series. Something worth it!
Steven Spielberg's Taken. The most boring thing because it's 20 hours.
Now Dune/ Children of Dune. That was a good mini-series. 6 hours, using the natural divides in the book as stopping points.
Most of the people here don't know what these things called girls are. They observe them but even the Kharaa are less mysterious.
i claim this chair for corneria!
no! stop that!
ow that was my eye!
now you will face the wrath of the cornerian army!
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yeah, ill take two large popcorns ... extra butter
The Sauruman part does surprise me. I don't know how they're going to have the whole Pippin-Palantir part without Wormtongue throwing it down. Which makes me think that New Line Cinema are the ones to blame for this. I really can't see Jackson cutting Saruman out completly.
You mean like Dances With Wolves? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Dances with Wolves wasn't THAT long. You want long, go watch the 'Civil War'. What, was that 25 tapes?
But then my second was "oh well. I haven't read the books anyway, so I won't know the difference anyway..."
Ignorance is bliss. :P