258 Chapter 258 Return of the King (seeking subscription recommendation) (2/2)

”Hello. Thank you for coming.”

Smile politely as always.

After entering the theater, he greeted several acquaintances a few more times, and Lehman sat in his seat with peace of mind.

His position is in the middle of the third row, and next to him are people in the circle such as directors and producers. Eva is sitting next to him.

Approximately half an hour later, the interview with the main creative staff arrived.

Seeing everyone on the stage reminiscing about their bitterness, talking about various funny stories during the shooting, Lehman's eyes were on a middle-aged man with glasses.

This person is the leader of the special effects team responsible for ”The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King”-Richard Taylor.

This product has almost become famous in the industry along with the ”Lord of the Rings” series. From the first film, this New Zealand-born visual effects filmmaker has gradually emerged, and won the best makeup and best at the 72nd Oscar. Visual effects award, and later founded Weta Studio.

Since then, his name has always been associated with big directors such as Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron.

In addition to the ”Lord of the Rings” series, some of the beautiful scenes and character models on Pandora in ”Avatar” are also the results of him and his studio.Is a really powerful special effects master.

Lehman looked at him, very soliciting, but unfortunately, the Weta Studio has become a climate, and every one billion can not be taken down, that is to say.

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After the movie started, Lehman found it interesting.

Although he has watched this movie before, it does not prevent him from watching it again from another perspective.

To be honest, Peter Jackson really deserves the title of a hardcore book fan of Tolkien. Several scenes such as the Battle of Palano Plains and the Battle of the Black Gate are reproduced to the greatest extent by mixing real shots and cg models.

This guy has been planning the adaptation of ”The Lord of the Rings” since 1995. At that time, his old club was Miramax, and Harvey also provided him with ten million dollars in funding for his preliminary preparations (Harvey’s vision is still good. But his personality is not good, and he likes to play tricks. In addition to Quentin, many directors who have worked with him finally chose to leave him). After the project was established, in order to find a buyer, Harvey and Jackson visited a group of film companies. .

In the end, Shaye, the former president of New Line Pictures, took a fancy to it. After seeing Jackson’s preliminary work, he also said a famous golden sentence: ”The original ”Lord of the Rings” is a trilogy. Why doesn't the movie do this?”

Yes, the concept of the trilogy was proposed by Saya. At that time, Hollywood was not popular at all for sequel production. Peter Jackson originally wanted to get a ”Lord of the Rings”, but after hearing Saya's proposal, he probably loved it. Mr. President, he took the initiative to transfer part of his adaptation copyright to Xinxian. This is why Harvey and Xinxian had conflicts later. All three parties hold part of the copyright, but in general, Harvey is the least, Peter -Jackson betrayed his old club again and switched to a new line.

The combination of the two makes Harvey directly lose the right to speak in this project. Seeing that the first film is very profitable, Harvey can not stand such a marginalization and decisively sue the two to the court, but the court is not Oscar, ha Wei had no acquaintances, he was directly fucked down, and finally accepted the move in a desperate manner, operating an Oscar for the ”Lord of the Rings” series, striving to maximize profits and sharing some soup.

However, Peter Jackson's mind at the time was also well understood.

Before that, he was just a B-level film director with a small score. He has made three or four films with a gross box office of less than 30 million U.S. dollars. He actually got this rare large-scale production series in film history, with a total investment of up to 300 million.

With such a great faith and kindness, it is no wonder that he would abandon Harvey. Harvey has never supported him like this.

If you compare the two, do you have to say who to choose?

Furthermore, in order to faithfully restore Middle-earth, it took 3 years to write the script and the simulation of the scene. From the preparation in 1995 to the first release in 2001, the past 6 years.

Without such thorough comprehension of the original work and effort-consuming preparation, it would be impossible to have the current glory.

The epic fantasy trilogy is well deserved.

Presumably this is what Peter Jackson is most proud of in his life.