{"id":136222,"date":"2018-05-05T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136222"},"modified":"2018-05-06T01:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T07:06:44","slug":"we-almost-got-a-2-hour-tarantino-lord-of-the-rings-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/05\/we-almost-got-a-2-hour-tarantino-lord-of-the-rings-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"We almost got a 2-hour Tarantino “Lord of the Rings” movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, I’d be fascinated to see a Tarantino LotR movie, but this was the loathsome Harvey Weinstein trying to convince Peter Jackson to reduce his LotR ambitions to a gutted 2-hour fantasy adventure flick, threatening to bring in Tarantino or someone else instead to make the film.<\/p>\n

Weinstein told Jackson he had to make one two-hour film or he would be replaced by Shakespeare in Love<\/em> director John Madden, or Tarantino. \u201cHarvey was like, \u2018you\u2019re either doing this or you\u2019re not. You\u2019re out. And I got Quentin ready to direct it\u2019,\u201d Ken Kamins, a producer who worked for Weinstein on the project, told the author.<\/p>\n

Jackson said he got a memo dated 17 June, 1998 from Jack Lechner, the development head of Weinstein\u2019s company Miramax, detailing \u201ca more radical, streamlined approach\u201d, which would allow the story to be told in one film. This would have meant cutting the Helm\u2019s Deep valley, having Eowyn replace Faramir as Boromir\u2019s sister, the Balrog would disappear and Saruman too was on shaky ground, the Stuff website reports. \u201cIt was literally guaranteed to disappoint every single person that has read that book,\u201d Jackson told Nathan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mercifully, Weinstein was convinced to let Jackson shop the project around, and New Line Cinema jumped on the opportunity.<\/p>\n


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Actually, I’d be fascinated to see a Tarantino LotR movie, but this was the loathsome Harvey Weinstein trying to convince Peter Jackson to reduce his LotR ambitions to a gutted 2-hour fantasy adventure flick, threatening to bring in Tarantino or someone else instead to make the film. 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