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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 7732494" data-attributes="member: 27252">I think that is a little harsh on Peter Jackson. He had already earned an Oscar for the screenplay of Heavenly Creatures and made a number of movies before LotR which were critically well received. It's also worth noting that Lord of the Rings was considered unfilmable by many beforehand - with only the peculiar and incomplete animated movie from the 70s as any genuine previous attempt. Jackson was good at getting the whole of New Zealand enthusiastically behind the production of the film and delegated well in an epic that required a whole team of on-set directors that needed a lot of co-ordination. The problem is that most of his work since has largely attempted to do the same approach in terms of script writing as he did in LotR. King Kong was way too long, and we all know about The Hobbit "trilogy". In the latter case, it should be noted that Jackson initially was just a producer and he had initially had Guillermo del Toro down to direct it. del Toro had wanted to do two movies, and they would have probably been standard two hour movies from my understanding. Unfortunately, due to a prolongued Union strike, del Toro dropped out and Jackson had to take on the direction himself. I think that disruption led to most of the problems, honestly.</blockquote>