Whats better is that the character motivations are even more clear and identifiable, a real character arc not bogged down by podraces, galactic senates, Jar Jar Binks, politics or most of the needless parts of the Star Wars prequels. While I know the missing pieces and could even fill in the blanks in my head as the film raced past, none of those points were really needed. Whats most shocking is that with only 85 minutes of footage, Topher was able to completely tell the main narrative of Anakin Skywalker's road from Jedi to the Sith. But it’s nice to see that even after all these years, even Hollywood’s elite are still chasing the perfect Hobbit film./Film was lucky enough to be one of the few outlets invited to Grace's one and only screening of the film back in 2012 and you can read Peter's full write up at this link. It’s better when the art leads.” Unfortunately, much like Grace’s Star Wars edit, it seems doubtful that his two-hour Hobbit cut will ever make its way online. Grace seems to concur with that sentiment: “I think that maybe ‘The Hobbit’ should’ve been one movie, and many people would agree,” he says. The idea is that if fans simply slice away enough elven subplots, wizardly duels, and overlong barrel chases, they’ll find a distilled essence of The Hobbit somewhere in the edit room. The theory goes that buried in the seven hours and 54 minutes of Jackson’s trilogy (or nine hours and three minutes, if you’re watching the extended cuts) is a better adaptation of the beloved book than the three-part series we got.

There are tons of Hobbit fan edits gracing the internet already, from slimmed-down cuts to full-blown reimaginings of the entire film, down to the custom Blu-ray artwork. Apparently, fixing maligned geek films is just how Topher Grace relaxes “It’s like doing woodwork in my garage.” (His film-editing hobby is why a Reddit thread predicted three years ago that he would eventually create this Hobbit cut.)Īpparently, fixing maligned geek films is just how Topher Grace relaxes

Grace doesn’t typically find himself in an editor’s chair: “It’s not that I ever want to edit professionally,” he tells IndieWire. But the Hobbit edit was born out of slightly different motivations: Grace says he needed to relax after the strain of playing David Duke in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Grace isn’t exactly a stranger to fan edits of films - in 2012, he famously trimmed down George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels into a now-legendary 85-minute film. The latest edit comes from an unlikely place - actor Topher Grace, who IndieWire reports has edited down Jackson’s trilogy into a single two-hour film.

Tolkien’s roughly 300-page novel) has been out on Blu-ray. Fans have been trying to recut Peter Jackson’s overstuffed trilogy of The Hobbit films for about as long as the third movie in the series (based on J.R.R.

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