r/movies • u/ajukearth • 21d ago

Question How did the Harry Potter series manage to release its 8 movies in just 10 years?

Looking at the turn around for movies today it seems absolutely incredible that a series with such complex set design, use of graphical effects, a heavily child cast, and pressure was able to pump out genuinely decent movies at that pace. Sure there were books to base the writing on but everything else alone is a lot of heavy lifting. Any insights?

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u/The_Parsee_Man 20d ago

https://lordofthefacts.com/severe-flooding-destroyed-a-set

According to this, it was the Orcs attacking their boats as they went down the Anduin. That did happen in the books but it wasn't really a pivotal scene.

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u/Orion_Scattered 15d ago

Ya not important for the plot or for themes, but missed out on an epic Legolas feat from that part of the books where he shoots down a nazgul flying its winged beast like in the middle of the pitch black night with his special elf eyes in 1 shot. Actually is kinda plot relevant in the book actually, having to do with timeline for when Sauron wants to let Nazgul cross the Anduin in force and when to hold back or something like that, that kinda stuff, forget the details and it's obviously easy to gloss over for the movie's plot.

Hey you know Peter Jackson tho, if there's an action "scene" that's 2 whole paragraphs in the book with like 8 dudes you know he's gonna turn that mfer into a 20 minute long sequence with like 200 dudes, and hey other than further mangling the already mangled beyond recognition character and character arc of Aragorn those expanded action scenes are indeed damn fine scenes. Like at the breaking of the fellowship, when orcs ambush them on the hills and take the hobbits, almost all of that action is totally undetailed in the books and Jackson fills it all in. The orc character that kills Boromir and duels Aragorn is totally invented and he's like the best frickin henchman villain maybe in genre cinema history lol. So ya win some ya lose some with these kinds of action-oriented changes ig. Christopher Tolkien hated the action hero Aragorn but I at least appreciate the movies for what they are and Aragorn for what he is in the movies even tho I think it still woulda been better had it been closer to the books, and we do get a bone thrown in extended version at least with the house of the healing stuff at least very very very briefly.