Early RotK stuff
So my approach was: You’ve just seen The Fellowship and you’ve popped out to the lobby for a popcorn break — it might have lasted a bit long, twelve months; that’s quite a lot of popcorn — but then we’ve gone back in and the projectionist has just put on the next reel. I wanted that kind of unity to the story.Peter Jackson, on why he didn’t start TTT off with a prologue (read the whole article here, because PJ and PB talk about why they changed stuff…spoilerish if you haven’t seen TTT!)
Is it true that some of them reacted by running away?
In the first two years after Steven wrote the program… [laughs] We couldn’t stop them deserting the field of battle. The truth of it is that he thought he’d originally use vision. The problem with vision is that it’s extremely blinkered. If I’m facing in this direction, I can’t find an enemy. Now he uses sound, which gives them a 360 degree ability to find your enemy. But it’s bloody funny. We’ve got tests that date back to 1998 and 1999 where in the back of the shot, there’s thousands of soldiers just fleeing the field! We always thought that the computer was far more intelligent than humans. Richard Taylor on the MASSIVE program
Did it strike you that he also looks a bit like E.T.?
I never thought of E.T., actually, but other people have mentioned that he’s a bit like E.T. on crack. Andy Serkis, about Golum