The return of the King Peter Jackson is back in the Hobbit

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All roads lead to Middle-Earth for Peter Jackson ... eventually. It is hard to believe, but when the Hobbit: an unexpected journey is opened on 14 December, it will be almost a decade since the release of the Oscar-winning The Return of The King (2003), the third and final installment in Jackson the Vertigo received The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

"Well, the rings films seem a long time ago, I must say, but certainly narrowed the gap when we were shooting the Hobbit," says Jackson, Director, co-writer and co-composer theme co-producer of the famous Lord of the Rings trilogy and also the leading trio from which the Hobbit films. "We had many of the same actors and crew back, and there were moments where it seems not far away.

"In a way that shoot the Hobbit compressed everything," he says. "What length of time happened between the end of Lord of the Rings and the beginning of the Hobbit was collapsed in himself as a time machine once we actually on set shooting were." The gap between The Return of The King and an unexpected trip was really crazy for that love to see the Hobbit. Jackson initially chose not to what was initially planned as two films. Instead, he tapped the Mexican author Guillermo del Toro to lead with only himself on board as a producer and co-writer – a scheme which immediately in doubt, since the films pitched Warner Bros. had a lot of confidence in Jackson, the proven master of Middleearth and qualms about hundreds of millions of dollars to entrust to almost everyone else.

Not surprisingly, delays of all sorts of occurred.

Jackson fought with New Line Cinema, the studio that on profits from the trilogy The Lord of The Rings, had released. Rights issues relating to the Hobbit, as well as the financial problems further complicated Affairs of MGM, co-owner of the rights to the novel by J.r.r. Tolkien. Unsure if The Hobbit would forward, del Toro left and was replaced by Jackson, to relief of the studio and the fans.

However, even after the rights issues are resolved, Jackson signed on and new line parent that Warner Bros agreed to finance the Hobbit, production was still delayed by problems with the actors Union – first in New Zealand and again when Jackson fell ill with an ulcer.

No one would blame that Jackson have wondered if The Hobbit would ever happen.

However, speaking by phone from his Office in Wellington, New Zealand, the 51-year-old filmmaker says that his confidence never faltered and he maintained a "pretty disastrous attitude" about the project perspective despite the tumult.

"I actually believe in fate," says the filmmaker, "not in a religious way, but I think that somehow that things tend to happen because they are supposed to happen. That is an experience that I've had quite a few times in my life.

"I think at the end of the day, although I tried to not The Hobbit, something or someone had different plans for me." Jackson goes on to speak extensively and with obvious excitement about The Hobbit. The journey of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) in The Hobbit is slightly less dangerous than those created by Frodo (Elijah Wood) in The Lord of The Rings, and Jackson calls a "more humourbased" Bilbo character than Frodo. It is the 13 dwarves of Erebor, Thorin Oakenshield in particular (Richard Armitage), who on a deeper quest as they try to save their country and their golden treasure from Smaug, a fire-breathing dragon that lives in the Lonely mountains to recover it.

What calls Jackson's most animated comment, however, is the subject of the short novel of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit extend to a scenario in two films and eventually in three.

At the screening of the images he shot for the version twofilm would, Jackson says, he and his production team conferred with actors, and then with Warner Bros and decided that-with a few months of extra main photography-The Hobbit would be best served as a trilogy. An unexpected journey this year, followed by the destruction of Smaug in 2013 and there and Back Again in 2014 opened.

"The thing that you need to realize is that we do not only the adaptation of the novel of The Hobbit Tolkien wrote," Jackson begins. "We have also the annexes, 125 pages in principle with pretty concise, compressed notes that are published at the end of the return of the King. So we are adapting the Hobbit and then expand in a way that Tolkien, at some point in his life, destined to fold and revision of the original novel he wrote.

"In the 1950s and in the 1960s, he was planning to rewrite the Hobbit with all these extra material," Jackson says. "He never did that. so, in a way, what we do with the movie presents something of The Hobbit that may have been present – can have existed – if he had been able to do that review of the novel." Jackson goes on to call on the reputation of The Hobbit "misleading." While it presents an epic story, the book is not an epic read, page-wise. It is a relatively thin book, told in a "breathless pace" of Tolkien.

"It's almost like a children story written," says the filmmaker. "So it races along, which I think is one of the things that makes it so popular and loved by children. If you shoot a movie, and we wanted to shoot this in much the same style as rings, with the same narrative style with a different story and many different characters, we found that, whereas Tolkien the whole set of Lake Town, for example, in three or four pages, just because of the needs would write of making a film and presenting the development of the characters and the relationships between characters, and the dynamics of the story, that three or four pages of script would extend up to 30 pages.

"It was just something that happened if a part of the adjustment process," he says.

"We realized that Tolkien in rings, is interrupted and is present in much more depth on the various episodes that happen along the way, on the journey of the Fellowship. But it is very fast in The Hobbit. That would, I think, lends a very unsatisfactory film if you literally drove by the story Tolkien as well as in the book. " A Mark Jackson is his cameo appearances in nearly all of his films, including each of the Lord of the Rings films. Where should fans look for him in an unexpected trip? "Och," says Jackson: laugh. "It is in the first six or seven minutes of the film."

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