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Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King'

Posted by timothy on from the still-ticked-at-trilogy-ticket-snafu dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Is it just me... by The+One+KEA · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a setup for the purists. The SEs are basically what Jackson would have released in theatres, without ANY cutting. New Line forced a 3 hour limit on him so they had to rework things somewhat, which meant that a lot of stuff that Jackson wanted to show would end up in the SEs for the "real" fans to see.

    It still sUx0rzZ, though -- I like Christopher Lee as Saruman.

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  2. OHMYGOD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    something new and uninteresting I could add to my "who gives a flying fuck" section of my brain!!! Thanks timothy!

  3. Re:Given the fact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, which is it? Chinks or gooks? Ya fucking wop...

  4. Re:Key component? by JonGretar · · Score: 0, Troll

    When did Iraq attack you guys? They have never done a thing to you guys. The Talibans never did anything to you guys. You just wanted the oil. And what 3 times did you play make-love-not-war. If you read something else that American Propoganda papers you will see that you have been actively killing them for 20 years with hundreds of thousands of deaths.

    F**k you and f**k america. Hope you get hundreds of more of these planes into your houses. You have done so much damage with your ignorance. And you dare being pissed off at us europeans becouse we don't want to participate in your genacides around the world.

    How can you guys be so stupid.