Peter Jackson Reveals His Favorite Scene From THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy
Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. While there, the filmmaker shared what his favorite scene is from The Lord of the Rings and revealed that it was written and directed by his partner, Fran Walsh.
“We were shooting Two Towers and it was introducing Gollum. A key thing with Gollum is that most people know he's Sméagol and he's Gollum, it's like a split. But we hadn't got a scene where you really got the idea of, 'This guy is two people.' So we knew that we needed it but we had no time to shoot it.
“So Fran wrote a scene where Sam and Frodo are asleep, so they can be just lumps in the bed, we don't even have to have Elijah and Sean. We didn't have anyone to direct it, so I said to Fran, 'You wrote it, you should shoot it.' So she went in for a day and she wrote and directed a scene which has become pretty famous now.”
This was a pretty brilliant scene and I remember being in awe as I watched it the first time in theaters. The writing was just so damn good and the way Gollum and Sméagol’s conversation with each other turned out was awesome.
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies have been remastered in 4K to fix visual inconsistencies between the two trilogies giving fans a fresh glimpse of the Middle Earth epic. I’m excited about that!