Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King'

Dolemite_the_Wiz writes "Multiple News Sources report that Christopher Lee's Character Saruman will not appear in the LOTR: ROTK at all. From what I've been reading, the scenes total seven minutes and is a vital component of the whole storyline that the 'masses' should see in the theatrical cut of ROTK. Of course these scenes will be included in the DVD 'Special Edition' of ROTK. I've got tremendous faith in Peter Jackson's talents as a filmmaker. I've been a fan since his first movie but haven't read the LOTR trilogy books...yet. (I'm waiting for ROTK to hit the theaters) Given the fact that I haven't read the books but am a huge movie snob, how can you not have any sort of resolution of a character that has played a key component in the three movies? Articles on this story can be found at BBC, Christopher Lee Web, and theonering.net."

Comments

Key component?

[freeweed]

how can you not have any sort of resolution of a character that has played a key component in the three movies?

I'd say he was only been a key compnent in two movies, now :)

Re:Key component?

[the_mad_poster]

A trolling AC posted:

And you are from which country now? I'm sure I can dig up something...

JonMartin posted:

Okay, I'll bite: Canada.

Ouch.... that's easy. Canada's to blame for EVERYTHING. Cripes... you nuts can't even tell bacon from ham and you eat snails and live in igloos.

Crazy penguins.

Given the fact

[Anonymous Coward]

That you haven't read Lord of the Rings, I demand you get off Slashdot now. Next you'll be saying "Star Trek? What's that?"

Maybe this is because . . .

[EmCeeHawking]

. . . SCO threatened to sue New Line Cinema over unlicensed depictions of their proprietary method of using evil to dominate the world.

Re:Maybe this is because . . .

[Blue Master]

I thought Microsoft had prior art on that one...

Sources

[Jon Abbott]

Multiple News Sources report that Christopher Lee's Character Saurman will not appear in the LOTR: ROTK at all.

Would one of these "multiple sources" be the latest movie leak on Kazaa? :^)

His action figure didn't sell well...

[Denver_80203]

bummer

Oh, I thought you said Sauron

[raider_red]

When I first read the headline, my dislexia kicked in and I thought they said that Sauron had been cut from the third movie. My first thought was that he was being replaced by a little white rabbit with very sharp teeth.

Re:Oh, I thought you said Sauron

[Altima(BoB)]

"That's no ordinary Dark Lord! It's a viscious eyeball Dark Lord with big pointy teeth..."

And upon Gandalf's return, he shall introduce himself as "Tim."

Gandalf: "You shall not pass! Until you answer me these questions three, what is your name?"
Balrog: "I am a demon of the old gods, the balrog."
Gandalf: "What is your quest?"
Balrog: "I seek to crush your fellowship and burn them.
Gandalf: "What is your favorite color?"
Balrog: "Flame orange! No, blue - AAAEEEIIIII!!!!!!"

There are lots of possibilities, I could go on but then I'd just drive it into the ground.

I'm a pleb I guess

[eamonman]

Oh well, I'm going to be a little pleb and buy the Super-Hyper-Extended-Platinum-Zero-Limited Edition LOTR 15 Disc Box Set when it comes out and pay whatever they want me to pay. Sure, you could buy all the other versions and little parts of the whole, but I think it's best if you just wait and get everything in one massive, matching box set that injures your mailman.

You haven't heard the worst of it yet...

[ayjay29]

I'm not too worried about Saruman being cut, it's the addition of this character that scares me.

Re:Nonsense...

[Stormie]

Are they going to completely erase the Shire portion? That would be madness indeed.

Yes, they are going to completely erase the scouring of the Shire, as they have said in every goddamn interview for the last three goddamn years. Christ, Slashdot today is like the Young Ones. "Oh, have we got a video!?"

Re:Jackson will likely pull it off

[banzai75]

Think about it - do you believe more or fewer people are reading the books now that the first 2 films are out?

I stopped reading after the elves never showed up at Helm's Deep. Who is the Tolkien guy and how dare he mess with a Peter Jackson classic film?

Re:I never expected to see anything from book 6

[WatertonMan]

a) ROTK, the book, is a bit shorter than the others

No, no, no. It just has endless appendices (sp?) that no one reads.

I hear that the SSE (super-super-extended) version has these, the scouring of the shire, and Bombadil in. Yes, the endless genealogy tables are there, read by Ian McKellan. So for those of you who tremble when you hear your preacher read the genealogies in the Book of Numbers, now you can be relieved to know that the full edition of Lord of the Rings is here. Yeah it drags in a few places and putting every damn song in a foreign language back in seems an odd directorial choice. But it's there.

Be happy.

This just in!

[ThisIsFred]

Multiple news sources just confirmed that Aragorn has been completely cut from `Return of the King'. Now, I have complete faith in Peter Jackson as filmmaker, and the 60 minutes of deleted footage will return in next year's RotK special edition DVD release. But, this does bring the theatrical release running time down to a more manageable 241 minutes. Rumour has it that the film contains 78 minutes of scenes not in the book involving Liv Tyler, some of which detail a surprising romantic relationship between the she-elf and Sauron. (Oops! Sorry about the spoiler!)

Re:7200 Series Only!

[YetAnotherDave]

>>It's not like we've forgotten that you once burned Washington :)

really? I didn't think they taught that in american schools...