Peter jackson "I didn't know what the hell I was doing' when I made The Hobbit"

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Yes but the Hobbit book came out in 1937. Wtf was he so lost and confused about? Adapt the goddamn source material

:mjlol: I didnt know that. He musta been tryna spice it up & get some ideas from del toro


The problem is the prep time that would've been used to break the story into a coherent movie was used by Del Toro. He bounced, but they still wanted to stay on the same schedule.

So Jackson came in with basically no plan. It's easy to say "adapt the source material" but like he said years went into preparing the original trilogy. Time for scripts, sets, rehearsal, edits, wardrobe, etc. He more or less had no time for any of that.

At some point I guess he could've told the studio "this isn't possible" but if they handed me millions of dollar to do it, I'd do it too. And it would probably suck. But the movies made billions of dollars so :manny:

I guarantee that's the only reason he kept it so real. It's a success, so he can tell the truth. If those movies flopped he'd never take even partial blame. It would be some vague problem or "creative differences".

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But it gave time for decades worth of children and teens to read the books, reread the books, and love the books. Which then creates hype once you find out a movie series is coming out. The last thing I cared about when it came to Harry Potter was a movie when we were just halfway through the series. I was hype for The Chronicles of Narnia, but it was trash (not sure if they even finished it). There is merit to taking advantage of fresh intellectual properties, but I think giving them time to gain generations of fans can be even more profitable. I love watching Game of Thrones, but I care more about the book series being completed.
Nah they never finished em. I think Disney dumped the ip when the bought marvel might of been before but Disney was putting out trash live action moves back to back to.back
Lion witch and wardrobe was good. .. but prince caspin was ehhh
 

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Based on the revelations of the last few books when it comes to Snape and James and Lilly, that would either be a really good idea or a meh one. I'm not sure yet. It would be a cool thing to explore how much of a jerk James was though, especially in contrast to Harry

itd be trash, id rather see something else.
 

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Idgaf what he do to the hobbit those 3 LOTR movies are GOAT. :mjcry: Being a hobbit was the only way Elijah wood was getting that much cake in hollywood:lolbron:
 

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Shyt may have been the Streets Disciple of movies, if he had cut it down into 2 parts, it would have been a masterpiece, but I thought the last 2 parts were pretty solid.
 

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The problem is the prep time that would've been used to break the story into a coherent movie was used by Del Toro. He bounced, but they still wanted to stay on the same schedule.

So Jackson came in with basically no plan. It's easy to say "adapt the source material" but like he said years went into preparing the original trilogy. Time for scripts, sets, rehearsal, edits, wardrobe, etc. He more or less had no time for any of that.

At some point I guess he could've told the studio "this isn't possible" but if they handed me millions of dollar to do it, I'd do it too. And it would probably suck. But the movies made billions of dollars so :manny:

I guarantee that's the only reason he kept it so real. It's a success, so he can tell the truth. If those movies flopped he'd never take even partial blame. It would be some vague problem or "creative differences".

Fred.

I hear you breh but but Peter Jackson was originally writer and executive producer and del toro the director. For pj to be so lost when taking over is just odd
 

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How are the hobbit movies bad and Smaug was crushing the buildings and ugly ass captain orc.
were all time hof villains, for just starters.

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