6 Star Wars Myths Started By The Actors

6. There's A Six-Hour Cut Of The Phantom Menace - Jake Lloyd

For many, the existing 136-minute cut of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is already a pretty excruciating experience, but it's practically snappy compared to George Lucas' alleged six-hour original assembly cut.

In a 2011 interview, Anakin actor Jake Lloyd claimed that franchise sound editor Matthew Wood had seen the six-hour cut and described it as "mind-blowingly awesome."

Though it isn't at all uncommon for assembly cuts of movies to run around double their eventual length given that they tend to include most every scrap of usable footage, there still hasn't been any formal confirmation of the cut's existence by either Lucas or anyone in his inner-circle.

Then again, would extending The Phantom Menace's runtime, a film already awash in so many tedious discussions about politics and the taxation of trade routes, really improve it?

Check out Lloyd's comments about the cut at 3:55 in the clip above.