"The Hobbit" trilogy has already been concluded and its director, Peter Jackson, released a bombshell. The man behind the "The Battle of Five Armies" admitted that he did not know what he was doing most of the time and that he "winged" it.
In a DVD version of the last installment of the trilogy, "The Battle of Five Armies," Jackson shared that he never had a chance to prepare and spent 21-hour days while filming.
He took over in 2010 when Guilermo Del Toro left and unlike the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy in which he had three and a half years to prepare, it was entirely different in "The Hobbit."
The Guardian reported Jackson saying, "You're going on to a set and you're winging it, you've got these massively complicated scenes, no storyboards and you're making it up there and then on the spot [...] I spent most of The Hobbit feeling like I was not on top of it ][...] even from a script point of view Fran [Walsh], Philippa [Boyens] and I hadn't got the entire scripts written to our satisfaction so that was a very high pressure situation."
It explained why the final installment was delayed for five months before it was released. The original scheduled was July 2014 but it came out December of the same year.
The trilogy made about $3 billion worldwide but it paled in comparison to its predecessors.
As Slash Film puts it, Jackson is not a miracle worker but he is a genius and no doubt a great filmmaker.
Perhaps with great movies tucked under his belt, despite his being unprepared with "The Battles of Five Armies," he can now take time and have all the nap he needs. When he is ready, Hollywood will still be there. After all, can anybody imagine Hollywood without Peter Jackson?
"The Battle of the Five Armies" is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.