Philippa Boyens is working on it, so the writing won’t be the problem. She was responsible for some impeccable writing on LotR. But she was also a writer on The Hobbit and look how that turned out.
Right; the difference was studio pressure and timelines. Boyens and Jackson could take their time with LotR (pre-production was what, seven years?), while they were piled on to turn two films into three for the Hobbit, and to turn them around in no time at all comparatively.
Philippa Boyens is working on it, so the writing won’t be the problem. She was responsible for some impeccable writing on LotR. But she was also a writer on The Hobbit and look how that turned out.
Right; the difference was studio pressure and timelines. Boyens and Jackson could take their time with LotR (pre-production was what, seven years?), while they were piled on to turn two films into three for the Hobbit, and to turn them around in no time at all comparatively.
The whole idea of turning The Hobbit into a trilogy was dumb from the start. They could have made one good movie instead.