Neither the writer nor the director is a problem. The problem is studio interference. The Hobbit was written. Peter Jackson did a fantastic Lord of the Rings.
So we had a perfect story and the perfect director. But then the studio said, “We need The Hobbit to be two movies and it needs to be done in 6 months because we messed up the previous director and already planned on a specific release date.”
Neither the writer nor the director is a problem. The problem is studio interference. The Hobbit was written. Peter Jackson did a fantastic Lord of the Rings.
So we had a perfect story and the perfect director. But then the studio said, “We need The Hobbit to be two movies and it needs to be done in 6 months because we messed up the previous director and already planned on a specific release date.”
All they had to do was put Peter Jackson on it, step back and support him until it was done. The Hobbit movies would have been masterpieces