[HairOfTheDog]

Finally! - A small tidbit of news... Spoiler alert!

From TheOneRing.net

ROTK: The Six-Hour Cut
2/12/03, 5:27 am EST - Tehanu

Asfaloth wrote to say that the IMBD Pro magazine had some snippets about ROTK. "Rumors in early 2003 have it that the first cut is six hours long because of the amount of material from Tolkien's original story that remains to be covered." So I guess there's still a little bit of work to be done in the editing suite.

How To Kill a Saruman
2/12/03, 5:15 am EST - leo

TORn Staffer Asfaloth dug up a small but quite funny bit of information on Christopher Lee's character of Saruman: There are reportedly five different death scenes filmed for the character of Saruman. Christopher Lee has said that he had no idea which one would be used in the final cut.

I for one hope they'll use the one from the books...

[JameRetief]

I expect the final (theatrical) cut of ROTK will be about 4 hours. Wow, to have to cut 1/3 of the material to get it in the theater. Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long for the Extended Edition to come out.

Alternatively (dreaming here), Jackson could go back to New Line and have them release the six hour cut as two different movies AT THE SAME TIME (or at least within a very short time frame). I would have no problem with LOTR being a 4 "movie" epic.

[Mamzelle]

Six hours sounds just fine to *me*!