"Scenarios never came" : Peter Jackson not consulted for Lord of the Rings series

about five years after acquiring the adaptation rights Lord of the RingsAmazon Prime Video is finally gearing up to kick off its series of events on Friday, Sept. This new adaptation of the universe of JRR Tolkien’s books published between 1937 and 1955, delayed by the pandemic, should consist of eight chapters. His story will be the preface to two cinematographic legends: It will take place several thousand years before the events described in the film. the hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

These two trilogies grossed nearly $6 billion at the global box office between 2001 and 2014, garnering 37 Oscar nominations, including 30 for the first trilogy alone, making 17! Directed, produced and co-written by New Zealander Peter Jackson, Peter Jackson was in no way involved in the development of the Prime Video series. Rings of Power. As surprising as it sounds, the filmmaker this week Hollywood Reporter first approached, then abandoned overnight. “They asked me if I wanted to be in the show. I said, ‘This is an impossible question to answer without seeing a script.’“.”So they told me: ‘As soon as we have the first two scripts, we will send them to you’. And the scripts never came. That was the last thing I heard‘, said Peter Jackson, who, however, held not the slightest grudge against them.

“I will look. I’m not a man who wants to hurt others. Making a movie is hard enough. If someone makes a good movie or a good series, that’s something to celebrate. As a completely unbiased viewer, I can’t wait to see the show.Amazon Studios later thanked the director for his support and sold the series to Warner Bros. He said that it is a legal obligation to separate them from the films belonging to their studios. The heirs involved in the project were against Peter Jackson’s involvement, aid, or supervision, which is hard to believe, because at the time they said they hated their movie that they didn’t participate in.

Hugo Mallais