… You can’t squeeze those three books into one picture unless you’re making a Roger Corman film.” For a Tolkien fan, I thought that was the stupidest thing I’d heard in my fuckin’ life. “But they were going to condense three books into one picture and add extra characters to make it work. ![]() “I’m sitting in my office and I read that United Artists was going to make Lord of the Rings as a live-action picture written and directed by John Boorman,” says the now-80-year-old animation director, whose success with adult-oriented cult favorites Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic paved the way for him to make Wizards at the time (the film was released in 1977). 15, 1978, these are some of the things on director Ralph Bakshi’s mind during a candid conversation about what happened, and what could have been. Forty years after his animated classic The Lord of the Rings hit theaters Nov. ![]() Battles on the field and behind the scenes before a three-film saga went bust.
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