VIDEO : Harvey Weinstein Threatened To Replace Peter Jackson With Quentin Tarentino

In retrospect, it?s clear Lord of the Rings played a big part in paving the way for modern, serial blockbuster movies.
The three films were an event and showed that a continuing coherent story could succeed in theaters.
The massive critical and commercial success of Lord of the Rings is no doubt due to Peter Jackson?s tireless efforts and dedication to the trilogy.
But in the new book Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth, its revealed Harvey Weinstein threatened to replace Jackson with Quentin Tarantino.
Weinstein wanted a more radical, streamlined approach, and for the story to be told as one, big movie.
In the end they listened to Jackson, and sold the right to J.R.R. Tolkien?s epic to New Line Cinema, and as for Weinstein...