• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think it’s that big of a mystery. I’m sure it had a lot to do with him trying to turn The Hobbit into a new epic trilogy. It’s a pretty short book, it really just needed one film. Also, the first one was terrible to the point that I never bothered watching the other two, and I love LOTR

    • JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      That wasn’t really on Jackson from what I understand. He originally wasn’t even going to be directing the Hobbit films, but had to come in after the original director had other obligations and things were a mess when he got there. I believe the studio had already decided that it would be three films as well, but I could be misremembering.

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          11 months ago

          My understanding is that he (at least partially) did it so other people wouldn’t be out of their jobs. Some of which he might already know from the LOTR trilogy.

          Who knows if the project would have continued without Peter Jackson stepping in.

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      11 months ago

      The hobbit films being a mess were entirely the fault of new line.

      The preproduction of LOTR was in the range of 2 years. That’s hammering out the script, but also locations, sets, securing extras, apparently all of the horses in NZ for some of the shots but also all of the costumes and armor.

      All of those preproduction things were allowed in the range of 6 weeks(as opposed to over 100) for the Hobbit, and New Line refused to budge at all.

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      11 months ago

      I’m sure it had a lot to do with him trying to turn The Hobbit into a new epic trilogy.

      IIRC: He only wanted to do two movies and that was what was originally announced. Then the studio said,if you want our funding, make three.

      So we ended up with the hobbit shitshow.

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        11 months ago

        Annnnd, that’s why he’s not “doing anything” these days.

        I genuinely hope he’s living his best life. Fuck Hollywood.