New York Daily News

New look at Bobbitt case

- Nicole Bitette and Janon Fisher

JORDAN PEELE will get the final cut on John Wayne Bobbitt.

The Oscar-winning “Get Out” director will produce an Amazon Prime docuseries on the infamous 1993 domestic dispute, during which Bobbitt’s wife sliced off his penis with a kitchen knife then tossed it from a moving car, according to the streaming service.

The project, titled “Lorena,” promises to be “a groundbrea­king re-investigat­ion” by Peele and his production company, Monkeypaw, that cuts through all the sophmoric snickering.

The name Bobbitt became shorthand for fed-up wives worldwide, but there’s a more sober side to the saga, and Peele said he will explore it.

Lorena Bobbitt claimed her husband had tried to rape her earlier that evening and the attack was in revenge.

She was found not guilty of all criminal charges in January 1994.

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