To make a workprint, a filmmaker tends to make a print utilizing all of their chosen footage on the movie’s unique digital camera unfavorable. All of the enhancing is finished on the copy. When a closing reduce is arrived at, the edits are then repeated on the digital camera unfavorable, making a grasp print. Workprints, being comprised of a replica, are sometimes of low high quality and do not all the time have the ultimate sound, results, or music included. Certainly, many scenes include inventory footage, temp music, and animatics instead of closing scenes. They’re, primarily, the “first draft” of a movie edit.

It is going to be very uncommon {that a} workprint makes its solution to the general public, and when it does, it was normally the results of theft. A number of scandals have arisen through the years involving leaked workprints. One may recall an incident from the early 2000s, when Ang Lee’s “Hulk” made its manner onto web servers. Even these weren’t enormously lengthy. On the very least, one can possible relaxation assured {that a} six-hour reduce of “The Phantom Menace” was by no means constructed right into a grasp print, and by no means had full particular results, music, or sound.

The size of Lloyd’s declare — six hours! — is sufficient to elicit suspicion. Even workprints, in a really basic sense, solely are likely to run double the size of any closing reduce. For instance, it was stated that the workprint of Lucas’ 140-minute movie “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” as soon as ran a whopping 4 hours. That is solely 100 minutes of excised footage. 224 lacking minutes strains credulity.

So does a six-hour reduce of “The Phantom Menace” exist? In all probability not. One may suppose Jake Lloyd was both misled as to its existence … or he was simply having us on.