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The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson really wanted to forget making those movies.
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 60-year-old filmmaker explained why he wanted to forget all about Middle Earth… and it was for a very good reason.
“When we did The Lord of the Rings movies I always felt I was the unlucky person who never got to see as a coming-out-of-the-blue film,” he said. “By the time they were screening, I was immersed in it for five or six years. It was such a loss for me not be able to see them like everyone else.”
Jackson was instrumental in bringing The Lord of the Rings to the big screen, starting with The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001. He followed it up with The Two Towers in 2002 and finally The Return of the King in 2004.
Additionally, Jackson followed them up with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as well as its sequels, The Desolation of Smaug, and The Battle of the Five Armies. That’s a lot of Tolkien over the years.
But he still yearns to watch the films solely as a fan.
“I actually did seriously consider going to some hypnotherapy guy to hypnotize me to make me forget about the films and the work I had done over the last six or seven years so I could sit and enjoy them,” he said. “I didn’t follow through with it, but I did talk to [British mentalist] Derren Brown about that and he thought he could do it.”
Thankfully, he didn’t go through with it and still remembers making the Lord of Rings films… and Amazon, who made the upcoming Lord of the Rings show The Rings of Power were all too aware of his contributions, too.
Even if they did end up ghosting him after asking for his help.
Still, it looks as though this time around, Jackson will finally get to enjoy a Tolkien project that he hasn’t worked on… and he gets that fan experience for the first time.
“I’ll be watching it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m not the sort of guy who wishes ill will. Filmmaking is hard enough. If somebody makes a good film or TV show, it’s something to celebrate. The one thing I am looking forward to is actually seeing it as a perfectly neutral viewer.”
Want to find out more about the Rings of Power? Check out our guide to the best way to watch the Lord of the Rings movies as well as what the upcoming TV show is all about.
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Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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