Mooseboy018
Grey Havens
Jan 9 2011, 9:54pm
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I agree with basically everything you said
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but a lot of people seem to forget that PJ was very busy (or supposed to be) at the time the Hobbit was finally starting. He was still working on the Lovely Bones, and he had other projects that he was committed to at the time:
-District 9
-the Tintin movies
-the Dam Busters
-Halo
-a potential video game
Those projects are either done now or never happened, so it's easier for us to say now "well why didn't he just want to do the Hobbit in the first place?" But I'm not saying these projects were the only reason he didn't choose to direct from the beginning.
I don't think it was even really an option for him at the time. What was it? Three or four years ago? A lot has changed since then, and am I the only one that remembers him saying something "now I kind of regret not being the one directing it"? I think he said something like that in the last year or so as the script writing process was underway. He was obviously getting sucked into Middle-earth again, and I think he wanted to stay longer. Not that he regretted GDT being involved.
I wish I could find where/when he said that.
(This post was edited by Mooseboy018 on Jan 9 2011, 9:57pm)
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