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HCIsland · 01-23-2003, 08:33 PM

Just on the pitching to the studios line:<P>I believe Jackson's original pitch was two films to be made by Miramax. Miramax wanted one and Jackson refused. They then went to New Line and they asked, "why would anyone want to make two films from this ... it should be three films." Of course Jackson and company were estatic.<P>I always wondered what his treatment was when he was planning on two films. Where would he have ended the first one? The animated film ends at Helm's Deep, do you think Jackson would have done much the same?<P>I think we're lucky we got what we got.<P>H.C.

01-23-2003, 08:33 PM	#27
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	Just on the pitching to the studios line:<P>I believe Jackson's original pitch was two films to be made by Miramax. Miramax wanted one and Jackson refused. They then went to New Line and they asked, "why would anyone want to make two films from this ... it should be three films." Of course Jackson and company were estatic.<P>I always wondered what his treatment was when he was planning on two films. Where would he have ended the first one? The animated film ends at Helm's Deep, do you think Jackson would have done much the same?<P>I think we're lucky we got what we got.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor