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Originally Posted by Lindele
Well perhaps you weren't following along in what was most certainly the most intense and frustrating 5 years any film in history has ever had to go through.
I'm not saying the opportunity to make The Hobbit was a fun one, but it took years of painful lawsuits and other 'pre-production nightmares' to finally get these films made.
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I don't consider legal wrangling "pre-production", so maybe we have a communication issue. In my experience, pre-production starts when a project is given the green light, and the script is broken down and budgeted, and art directors and wardrobe and casting directors and all the other myriad departments begin to plan out and prepare for actual production. If wrangling for the rights is pre-production, then it could be said Mary Poppins was in pre-production for fifteen years, and that would be misleading.
Also, I think your appraisal of The Hobbit's pre-production as "the most intense and frustrating five years any film
in history has ever had to go through" is simply hyperbole. Many films have taken long protracted and difficult paths from development to production, and many films have had tortuous productions -- The Abyss and Jaws come to mind, as well as Lawrence of Arabia.