8. Three Books Condensed In Two Movies?
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Early in production, before New Line took over, Miramax wanted to condense the trilogy into two movies. Yes. They wanted to take three books that could easily stand alone and squeeze them all into two over-stuffed, exposition-filled epics. Thankfully, Peter Jackson and the producers kept looking, and New Line Cinema saw the potential in keeping it as a trilogy. Too bad they couldn’t have thought the opposite for The Hobbit trilogy. We would have had less pointless Elf/Dwarf romance and more real story. Although, it was cool to see bits of the Silmarillion brought into the story.
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