Middle-earth: From Script to Screen tells the complete story of how J. R. R. Tolkien's magic world was brought to vivid life on the big screen in the record-breaking film trilogies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Drawing on resources, stories, and content from the archives of the companies and individuals behind the films, much of which have never appeared in print before, as well as interviews with director Peter Jackson and key members of the Art Department, Shooting Crews, Park Road Post, and Weta Digital teams who share their personal insights on the creative process, this astonishing resource reveals:
- How the worlds were built, brick by brick and pixel by pixel;
- How environments were extended digitally or imagined entirely as computer generated spaces;
- How the multiple shooting units functioned;
- How cast members and characters interacted with their environments.
