Wrath of the Titans 2012
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:00 pmFrom WIRED October 15, 2009:
[quote="Chris Baker"]
Wired:
When you were starting Legendary five years ago, were the Lord of the Rings films an instructive example for what you might be able to do? Here was this geek-friendly property adapted with a lot of care and reverence …
Tull:
Those are my favorite movies of all time. Every Christmas break, I watch all three of them again, and that’s something I’ll do for the rest of my life. I was a huge fan of the books, I don’t know how many times I’ve read them, so I walked into the theater with a clear sense of those characters in my mind. I already knew what Frodo looked like, I already knew what Gandalf looked like. And the lights go down, the movie comes on, and oh my gosh … there’s Gandalf, you know what I mean? They nailed it. And Peter Jackson’s fingerprints are all over those films. He had respect for the material, and he never winked at the camera.
I do think Lord of the Rings opened things up, the fact that New Line rolled the dice and said, “Let’s make all three of them at once.â€
[quote="Chris Baker"]
Wired:
When you were starting Legendary five years ago, were the Lord of the Rings films an instructive example for what you might be able to do? Here was this geek-friendly property adapted with a lot of care and reverence …
Tull:
Those are my favorite movies of all time. Every Christmas break, I watch all three of them again, and that’s something I’ll do for the rest of my life. I was a huge fan of the books, I don’t know how many times I’ve read them, so I walked into the theater with a clear sense of those characters in my mind. I already knew what Frodo looked like, I already knew what Gandalf looked like. And the lights go down, the movie comes on, and oh my gosh … there’s Gandalf, you know what I mean? They nailed it. And Peter Jackson’s fingerprints are all over those films. He had respect for the material, and he never winked at the camera.
I do think Lord of the Rings opened things up, the fact that New Line rolled the dice and said, “Let’s make all three of them at once.â€
