He wasn’t meant to direct those films (that was del Toro) and was attached late into pre-production. Rather than the several years of pre-production on Lord, he had about a year of Hobbit. Plus the studio demanded a trilogy.
It hurt Peter - he knew it wasn’t on par then and there and you can see it in the making of docs.
I doubt he’ll take on a deal that doesn’t guarantee the preproduction time he wants.
It’s unfair the way he inhereted the blame by trying to fix a messed up production.
Bits of it are actually pretty good too, I think a lot of the first film is actually alright. My wife and I recently watched the extended editions and on their own they’re broadly decent family films (well 3 is medicore to bad). It’s the comparison to lotr that suffers and that largely seems to be a byproduct of messed up production.
He wasn’t meant to direct those films (that was del Toro) and was attached late into pre-production. Rather than the several years of pre-production on Lord, he had about a year of Hobbit. Plus the studio demanded a trilogy.
It hurt Peter - he knew it wasn’t on par then and there and you can see it in the making of docs.
I doubt he’ll take on a deal that doesn’t guarantee the preproduction time he wants.
It’s unfair the way he inhereted the blame by trying to fix a messed up production.
Bits of it are actually pretty good too, I think a lot of the first film is actually alright. My wife and I recently watched the extended editions and on their own they’re broadly decent family films (well 3 is medicore to bad). It’s the comparison to lotr that suffers and that largely seems to be a byproduct of messed up production.
I was genuinely happy to be in Middle Earth again, and there are plenty of fan edits to make it watchable plot/romance wise