The first attempt to put 'The Hobbit' on screen was an adventure worthy of Middle-earth itself.
There is a long and complicated history behind big-screen adaptations of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and that landscape is littered with the remains of countless scripts and projects that never saw the light of day. Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy was exceptional in more than one way: not only did it come away with trophies and superlatives galore, but it also was the first major production of The Lord of the Rings to be completed in a live-action format.
The movie itself was written and directed by Gene Deitch, who had some respected accolades of his own in animated movies before taking on the project of The Hobbit. He had worked on episodes of the animated Popeye and Tom and Jerry series, and directed the 1961 Academy Award-winning animated short Munro. According to his own account, the actual story of the making of the movie was one that began with great promise before crashing and burning in a spectacularly unexpected way.
So far, this was an unfortunate but hardly uncommon experience; plenty of scripts never reach the screen, after all. It was the epilogue to this story, though, that made for the wild and weird product that eventually did reach the screen.
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