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Elijah Wood dropped by the popular Armchair Expert podcast for Monday’s episode where he talked about his life and career which dates back to his youth. And, of course, the Lord of the Rings films were a part of the conversation.
Podcast co-host Dax Shepard confessed he loved the story about how the films almost did not get made nearly as much as he loved the pictures themselves.
Essentially, Miramax acquired the rights to the J. R. R. Tolkien books in the mid-1990s and even put a few million dollars into development. However, after some time, it became clear the three films were not going to get made the way producer-director Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh envisioned, so they asked co-founder Harvey Weinstein to be allowed to shop the films at other studios.
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