Anything You Can Imagine
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The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and, finally, Oscar glory.Lights A nine-year-old boy in New Zealand’s Pukerua Bay stays up late and is spellbound by a sixty-year-old vision of a giant ape on an island full of dinosaurs. This is true magic. And the boy knows that he wants to be a magician.Camera Fast-forward twenty years and the boy has begun to cast a spell over the film-going audience, conjuring gore-splattered romps with bravura skill that will lead to Academy recognition with an Oscar nomination for Heavenly Creatures. The boy from Pukerua Bay with monsters reflected in his eyes has arrived, and Hollywood comes calling. What would he like to do next? ‘How about a fantasy film, something like The Lord of the Rings…?’Action The greatest work of fantasy in modern literature, and the biggest, with rights ownership so complex it will baffle a wizard. Vast. Complex. Unfilmable. One does not simply walk into Mordor – unless you are Peter Jackson.Anything You Can Imagine tells the full, dramatic story of how Jackson and his trusty fellowship of Kiwi filmmakers dared take on a quest every bit as daunting as Frodo’s, and transformed JRR Tolkien’s epic tale of adventure into cinematic magic, and then did it again with The Hobbit. Enriched with brand-new interviews with Jackson, his fellow filmmakers and many of the films’ stars, Ian Nathan’s mesmerising narrative whisks us to Middle-earth, to gaze over the shoulder of the director as he creates the impossible, the unforgettable, and proves that film-making really is ‘anything you can imagine’.
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Ian Nathan. Anything You Can Imagine
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Foreword
PROLOGUE. Journey’s End
CHAPTER 1. Sillification
CHAPTER 2. An Unexpected Director
CHAPTER 3. Many Meetings
CHAPTER 4. Words and Pictures
CHAPTER 5. Concerning Hobbits
CHAPTER 6. Heavenly Creatures
CHAPTER 7. Jamboree
CHAPTER 8. Miramar’s Mecca of Merry Souls
CHAPTER 9. Proof of Concept
CHAPTER 10. The Monsters and the Critics
CHAPTER 11. To the Edge of the World
CHAPTER 12. Junkie
CHAPTER 13. MASSIVE
CHAPTER 14. Return to the Edge of the World
CHAPTER 15. The Music of Middle-earth
CHAPTER 16. King of a Golden Hall
CHAPTER 17. Legacy of the Ring
CHAPTER 18. There and Back Again
CHAPTER 19. Augmented Reality
Afterword
Picture Section
Footnotes. 1: Sillification
2: An Unexpected Director
3: Many Meetings
4: Words and Pictures
5: Concerning Hobbits
6: Heavenly Creatures
7: Jamboree
8: Miramar’s Mecca of Merry Souls
9: Proof of Concept
10: The Monsters and the Critics
12: Junkie
13: MASSIVE
14: Return to the Edge of the World
15: The Music of Middle-earth
16: King of a Golden Hall
17: Legacy of the Ring
18: There and Back Again
19: Augmented Reality
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Ian Nathan
About the Publisher
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For Kat, who can’t abide hobbits.
Pauline Kael
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‘You’ve got to understand that, until Heavenly Creatures, he was an embarrassment in New Zealand. He wasn’t someone to celebrate,’ says Costa Botes, a friend and frequent collaborator through the early days. ‘Because of the films he was making there were certain factions of the industry actively gunning for him.’
Not a natural explorer, Jackson had been reluctant to go. He was persuaded when he saw the guest list. Here was an opportunity to meet some of his heroes in the flesh. Talents who had helped shape him as a filmmaker like Rick Baker, the genius make-up effects specialist feted for the still-extraordinary werewolf transformation in An American Werewolf in London. Or Freddie Francis, the cinematographer who had created the ghoulish, sweet-wrapper hues of the Hammer Horror movies (that cherry red blood that ran down Christopher Lee’s chin). Or Stuart Freeborn, the English make-up artist who had helped design Yoda. Or Tobe Hooper, the young director who had shocked the establishment with his debut horror movie The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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