(April 27, 2016 at 4:52 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I suppose this is what happens when you try to get eight hours of film out of a 300 page novel.
That, plus the fact that New Line had already done eighteen months of pre-production under Guillermo del Toro before he left the project. When Peter Jackson came on board, they didn't allow him to start over with his own vision for the films, so he was literally playing catch up and making up a lot of the scenes on the spot.
That they got made at all, to any standard, after all that is a testament to the experience of the cast and crew.
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