What was it like to work with Peter Jackson on The Hobbit?

Thanks for the A2A! First off: Now, I didn't personally work on the Hobbit. As a matter of fact, at the moment I am only 20 years old, finishing up my bachelor's degree in Applied Physics and I have been able to answer so much about Tolkien because I just read pretty much all his work. read more

Peter Jackson's (or PJ for short) ability to quickly draw a storyboard and seeing what can and cannot work on the screen keeps on going. On the work of the Hobbit, he saw that if he wanted to draw people to the cinema again, he would have to recreate the story of The Lord Of The Rings, or at least its dark style and setting. read more

Jackson is a genius and legitimately great filmmaker. Before The Hobbit, even his lesser movies were worthy of examination. This guy is a natural-born storyteller and a man of many genres. But he’s not a miracle worker. Under circumstances like these, it’s difficult to imagine any director making a good movie. read more

Peter Jackson. Photograph: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP Peter Jackson has revealed he began filming his blockbuster Hobbit trilogy without proper preparation, in many cases shooting scenes without storyboards and completed scripts in a process he described as “making it up as I went along”. read more