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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King • The Next Reel
“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we foresake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day!”
There and Back Again
With the success of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in 2003, he proved that epic fantasy storytelling could not only work, but that it could be worth the risk to film them all at once. It could be argued that the biggest downside to this production method – filming all three movies at once then releasing them separately over the course of three years – is that many awards voters didn’t feel each film deserved to be recognized…
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