[OT] Fwd: Harry Potter Petition!

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Reese" <fuelchic at e...> wrote:
> Just thought I'd pass this on, because I know that most of you out there would 
want this too. :> 
> 
> Reese of Ravenclaw
. . . 
> 
> Please help out and sign the Harry Potter petition if you haven't already.  This 
petition is for the realease of the director's cut of Harry Potter on DVD or home 
video.  The director's cut is the FULL version of Harry Potter, no cuts, no 
deleted scenes... meaning 4 hours of Harry Potter and never before scene 
footages!  
> 
> So far there are already 12,084 signatures and counting!  Sign up now!  ^___^

Sorry, but according to this Empire Online interview with Columbus himself, the 
4-hour cut is a myth.

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=3454&ss=Chris+columbus
&cp=1

The most we can hope for is restoration of small scenes.  For instance, the boys 
who played Dudley and Neville have both alluded in interviews to scenes that 
didn't appear in the final movie.  And I believe that some of the previews and 
promotional stuff included shots and props that never made it to the screen 
(e.g., Harry's Weasley sweater).  But surely there's not an entire 90 minutes 
more of footage that was shot but not used -- they were on a very strict 
production schedule, just short of panic mode, and wouldn't have shot 60 
percent more than they needed.