Darth Maul wasn't cut in half????....

I was scrounging around the archives of TF.N for TPM stuff and I stumbled upon a spy report that there were some showings of TPM when Darth Maul falls into the generator pit, that in one hes cut in half but in the other he is not.Heres a picture:

[image=http://www.theforce.net/episode1/newspics/splitting_maul.JPG]

and heres the article I found:
A new spy called Yodeling Yaddle during this holiday season sends us this report and a picture we think you'll find most interesting.
In case you haven't followed the story from the beginning, there were rumors for quite a while that Darth Maul wasn't cut in half in the final sequence of the movie in some showings. We of course doubted the validity of these reports, since not everyone seemed to see the splitting sequence exactly the same. In fact, I (Josh) just had some kids over to my house just this past week that all said they'd never realized Maul was split in half at the end of the movie. Could it be that people had just not noticed?

Then the plot thickened, with an THX screener's report card and rumors that the sequence was made as a backup to make sure Episode I would get the desired PG rating.

Well, here's the definitive word on the subject. Someone's managed to get a shot of this sequence, and this is not a doctored photo. This is from Episode I, but was cut. Literally.

[image=http://www.theforce.net/episode1/newspics/splitting_maul.JPG]


Heres a link to the article as well


Can anyone tell me how valid this story is?

 

I hope this is fake. I really like Maul's death- it's really rare to make the villian (even if he was just Sidious henchman) be split in half.

 

Maybe true as was stated to get the PG rating i would assume so. But if it is not bah! Unlike Bille Dee Binks i HATED that ending! It was so damn bogus! A sith who just fought 2 thats right count em 2 jedi n killed 1 has the other at his mercy watches stuipdly as he flips out, force pull the other saber, grabs the saber,lands then proceeds the slice him in half? Come on George Lucas i didnt buy that at all. It was anti-climatic.


oh well whats done is done!

 

At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell into the pit. I looked it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people like him enough, they are going to want him to come back and they're going to assume somehow he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say this guy's gone, he's history, he ain't coming back. I'll come up with another apprentice. The whole issue of having apprentices, poor Darth Sidious trying to replenish his apprentice supply, is one of the main plot points."
George Lucas, Empire Magazine 07/99

 

so - the answer is yes, he was cut in half - i trust my own eyes....

 

What DarthSylvanus said.

 

I heard that the First couple of Showings some theaters got the wrong (ie; not the final) Seventh Reel of the Movie. I was A Projectionist for Regal Cinemas at the Time. I Heard that Lucasfilm Quickly had these Reels Replaced within the First Couple of Days of Release.

These Sort of things happen from time to time in Wide Releases... but the Question is, how would Lucasfilm Know which theaters got the wrong ending in time to change them out? Maybe they noticed the Shipping Errors. It is possible... and I remember hearing about it at the time... this isn't some revisionist rumour.

 

I'm one of the ones who didn't notice it in my initial viewing. On a related note: was the issue of whether the blood was added to Maul's death in the video version ever resolved? I remember a lot of people not remembering seeing that in theatres?

 

I remember seeing the blood in theaters, so it was not added later.
Like the cutting in half, it's a little vague and not extremely easy to see.

I'm sure that if Lucas had decided from the beginning to have him cut in half, the shaft would have been brighter, to make the point very clear. As it is now, the background is a bit too dark, so it's fairly easy to miss that the body was split in two.

 

No. Especially not on the big screen.

So what about this pic on the right? Is it official?

The spray of blood has always been in the shot in the slicing shot.

 

If it was in the film that was shown in theaters, does that make it canon?

 

they made a shot of maul not cut in half, in case it would change the pg rating....as it wasn't the case, they let the sequence of maul cut in half, that's it

 

This is a morbid subject, but I'll say something. I think LucasFilm must have showed the orginal version where Maul fell in after being stabbed to avoid getting censored to PG-13. They released both versions in theatres afterwards. I remember seeing that "legs" version the first time in May 1999. When I got the video, I saw the "legless" version.

 

I saw TPM two times in theaters and both times I swear Maul wasn't chopped in half. I even had friends ask me if he was going to be in AotC because "he just fell down that shaft..."

When I bought the tape my whole family was confused about why he was suddenly hacked in half.

 

Yeah, some people evidently saw Obi-Wan shank him, not cut him in half.

 

Well, I saw Obi-wan swing his saber like a baseball bat so that really points out that Darth Maul was chopped in half.

 

Yeah, and other theatres got a copy of the film where Obi-Wan stabs him. OK?

 

I never saw the other version.When I saw TPM in the theater,he got chopped in half.So,I never knew they released this other version.

 

Yeah, I heard about it from a total stranger on an airplane.

 

a while back I posted a thread of the "Different" version I saw at a theater in Connecticut. I was taken as a FLAME starter. "It never Happened", I was told. "I was making it all up" I was told. This too was in that copy. What I said before was ALL true. OB1 had a brief conversation with DM just before he killed him. But, I'm sure you won't believe it....AGAIN.

 

see it here.


http://boards.theforce.net/The_Phantom_Menace/b10007/16256324/?21



It is all TRUE.

 

Maul's conversation with Obi-Wan prior to his death was in one of the rough drafts of the movie. It was never filmed. Therefore you are hallucinating.

 

"Maul's conversation with Obi-Wan prior to his death was in one of the rough drafts of the movie. It was never filmed. Therefore you are hallucinating. "


Well, In that case my three friends were hallucinating too. And the rest of the theater.

Someday, Someday....

 

As was posted in that thread, the waterfall scene wasn't completed until they made the DVD, as is said directly in the DVD itself. Therefore, that item alone proves your claim is fake.

And you never said anything about Maul not being split in half in that thread, so why are you reposting it here?

 

this man seems to be honest, I say: why not?... I remember when I saw tpm in theater for the first time in france, that after the movie I had kept in mind a shot of the podrace where we see teemto's pod and the camera is from the top ( a view from the sky)...and then I was astounished that I didn't resaw it and I forgot.........but when the dvd came out, I just saw(and u can check it) the exact same shot I remember in the extented lap 2! however those shots were supposed to be completed just for the dvd....
so even it's hard to believe you (as the special effects of those scenes have lower quality), I won't say u hallucinate, maybe your friends can post here also on the jcc forums....