Hollywood Tale

Peter Jackson had been developing Lord of the Rings at Miramax when one day he was called into a meeting where they informed him they wanted to make it as one movie (Jackson had a treatment envisioning it as two films). Jackson was shocked and even more so when they told him that if he didn’t agree to do LOTR as one movie, they already had a writer-director lined up who would do it their way. Jackson asked if he could try to set up the movie elsewhere. Miramax…