Peter Jackson seriously considered getting hypnotized after directing The Lord of the Rings. He wanted to become a lambda spectator again to discover the films without his director’s blinkers.
Peter Jackson can boast of having produced one of the most legendary fantasy trilogies in the history of cinema. After the three parts of Lord of the Ringsthe filmmaker even tackled the adaptation of Hobbit, which was cut into three films as well. Asked recently by The Hollywood Reporter, he confided that he felt frustrated at the time that he could not find out The Lord of the Rings like a normal spectator. So much so that he thought of a radical and, to say the least, surprising solution…
Peter Jackson, here is the fetish scene of Lord of the Rings, was obviously totally immersed in his work as a director for five or six years. When the films were released successively from 2001, he was inevitably deprived of the cinematographic slap that the public took, being the conductor of the project.
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The Lord of the Rings: hypnosis to forget everything
“It was such a heartbreak for me not to be able to see them like everyone else. So I seriously considered doing hypnotherapy to make me forget about the movies and the work I’ve done in the last six or seven years so I can sit back and enjoy them. I didn’t follow up, but I talked to Derren Brown about it. (British mentalist, editor’s note) who thought they could do it. »
The director will finally be able to enjoy an adaptation of Tolkien as a simple spectator during the imminent release of the series Rings of Power. In this regard, he confided that he had been contacted to get involved in the project. Jackson, however, asked to read the script before giving his answer. But despite the promises, the production never passed on to him. Not enough to irritate the main interested party who is delighted to watch the series “as a completely neutral spectator”.
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Source : THR