10 Behind-The-Scenes Dramas That Failed To Derail Famous Movies

9. Peter Jackson Was "Winging It" With The Hobbit Trilogy

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While The Hobbit trilogy was nowhere near as good as The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, it was solid, and each film in the series earned a bucketload of cash.

This can't have been the outcome that the filmmakers expected, however, given the enormous amount of pressure they had to endure while piecing the movies together.

Problems on The Hobbit began when Guillermo Del Toro - who had been preparing the movies for many years - left the project before filming began, forcing Peter Jackson to step in and take over.

The problem is, Jackson was given barely any prep time of his own - he had to work with what Del Toro had already done, start from there, and then rush the movies into production.

He was essentially making someone else's movie and was not given the necessary time to be able to fully execute his own vision, resulting in the director having to plan the movie as he was shooting it.

Jackson himself has even admitted that he was "winging it" for most of the production, so it's a small miracle that three good, financially successful movies were even salvaged from this enormous, Smaug-sized mess.

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