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źródło: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ExecutiveMeddling/Film

odnośnie tego jak różne studia wpływają na filmy i ich jakość

szczególnie kawałek odnośnie LOTR, już chyba nikt nie będzie narzekać na wersję Jacksona patrząc jak mogło być...

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The Lord of the Rings almost suffered this fate. Peter Jackson originally came up with a two-movie treatment since he knew a proper trilogy was going to be a hard sell, but when he showed it to Miramax, their suggestions were to, among other things, "use or lose" Saruman, combine Rohan and Gondor (so that Éowyn would be Boromir's sister), and mash everything into a single film. Instead Jackson went to New Line, who again said that it shouldn't be two films... it should (obviously) be three films.

It's actually a bit worse - and in turn also a bit more awesome - than that. Miramax was actually fine with the two-film idea for LOTR. It was Disney - the parent company of Miramax - that vetoed the two films idea. Specifically then-CEO Michael Eisner, who balked at the estimated cost of the two films, saying expensive films like it wasn't the sort of films Miramax was supposed to be doing. So Harvey Weinstein went back to Peter Jackson and told him to do it one film, with all the changes noted above including a few other things: The Mines of Moria sequence was completely cut out, and the Fellowship just info dumped on how bad going through the mines had been; and them not seeing a need for their being four Hobbits, and to get rid of two of them. (And then Miramax even wanted to kill off one of the Hobbits, though it's not clear if that order came down before or after it was demanded they do the story in one movie). Anyway, Peter Jackson flatly refused to make the one-film-only version Miramax was demanding, so Miramax only gave him four weeks to get another studio to bite, thinking that no other studio would. (And that then they would just replace Jackson with another director if Jackson still refused to do the one-film version). However, New Line did bite, and told Jackson to do it in three. When the films ended up being a smash hit, the loss of it was one of the main reasons Harvey Weinstein left Miramax (because he felt Michael Eisner's veto of projects like LOTR was holding him and the company back); and Michael Eisner losing his position as CEO of the Disney company because he had passed on too many hit projects like LOTR. So, in this case, the Executive Meddling ended up backfiring on the executives.

The battle to make LotR into the trilogy it deserved to be is quite ironic considering the next Middle-Earth story The Hobbit ended up being expanded from two films into three with little fuss from executives.