Weinstein told Jackson he had to make one two-hour film or he would be replaced by Shakespeare in Love director John Madden, or Tarantino.
Harvey Weinstein threatened Lord of Rings director Peter Jackson that he would be replaced by Quentin Tarantino if he did not turn his vision for J.R.R. Tolkien’s book into one two-hour film.
Jackson called Kamins to say he and his partner Fran Walsh could not adapt the book in the way Weinstein wanted.
And I got Quentin ready to direct it’,” Ken Kamins, a producer who worked for Weinstein on the project, told the author.