The anonymous tolkieneditor version promises to reduce the New Zealand film-maker’s interminable nine-hour-plus fantasy trilogy to a far more manageable single movie of just over four hours. There are more than a few attempts to cut down Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies, though none quite so ambitious in scope as a new edit that has raised its small-but-perfectly formed head above the parapet this week. Current projects include curtailed versions of such hubristic ventures as Heaven’s Gate, Lost and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. But a quick peek at the site reveals there are a lot more disgruntled and determined individuals out there. The Jar Jar Binks-jettisoning Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Edit, which purported to deliver the version of George Lucas’s film everyone actually wanted to see, is probably the most famous example of the form. Never underestimate the fury of amateur film-makers outraged that their heroes’ long-gestating artistic endeavour didn’t turn out quite the way they had hoped.
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