I was looking so forward to this movie. When I heard that this was only the first third of the book and 2hrs45 mins... I fired Jackson and his film company. I might see it when the Hobbit-trilogy all come out on BlueRay. I have the original Hobbit animated TV movie and it was respectable effort for a animation and only 77 minutes.
Seems history repeats itself !! the following was a clip taken from interview with Bakshi - who did Return of King movie in '78....... (live and learn Jack#$%$-son)
Sequel
The film was originally intended to be distributed as The Lord of the Rings Part One.[8][9] According to Bakshi, when he completed the film, United Artists executives told him that they were planning to release the film without indicating that a sequel would follow, because they felt that audiences would not pay to see half of a film:
"I told them they can't drop the Part One, because people are going to come in thinking they'll see the whole film, and it's not there. We had a huge fight, and they released it as Lord of the Rings. So when it came to the end, people were stunned in the theater, even worse than I ever realized they would be, because they were expecting to see the whole film. People keep telling me I never finished the film. And I keep saying, 'That's right!'"[8]
"Had it said 'Part One,' I think everyone would have respected it. But because it didn't say 'Part One,' everyone came in expecting to see the entire three books, and that's where the confusion comes in."[9]
Seems history repeats itself !! the following was a clip taken from interview with Bakshi - who did Return of King movie in '78....... (live and learn Jack#$%$-son)
Sequel
The film was originally intended to be distributed as The Lord of the Rings Part One.[8][9] According to Bakshi, when he completed the film, United Artists executives told him that they were planning to release the film without indicating that a sequel would follow, because they felt that audiences would not pay to see half of a film:
"I told them they can't drop the Part One, because people are going to come in thinking they'll see the whole film, and it's not there. We had a huge fight, and they released it as Lord of the Rings. So when it came to the end, people were stunned in the theater, even worse than I ever realized they would be, because they were expecting to see the whole film. People keep telling me I never finished the film. And I keep saying, 'That's right!'"[8]
"Had it said 'Part One,' I think everyone would have respected it. But because it didn't say 'Part One,' everyone came in expecting to see the entire three books, and that's where the confusion comes in."[9]
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