Episode 65: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
In this third and final episode on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the LFTS team discusses the filmmakers’ incredible dedication to getting the series made, when adding “movie stuff” is the right call in the adaptation process, and how Return of the King’s many endings enrich the trilogy’s themes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael, and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. |
| 0:13.7 | And today, we are finishing our journey through Middle Earth as we are talking about the Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King, the 2003 film directed |
| 0:21.7 | by Peter Jackson, screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philip Aboyens, and Peter Jackson based on the novel |
| 0:27.2 | by J.R.R. Tolkien. I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. Hello, everybody. Brian |
| 0:33.8 | Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Galleros. Hi. So here we are at the end of Lord of the Rings. |
| 0:40.3 | We are approaching Mount Doom. |
| 0:42.0 | But there is still more podcasting for us to do because our episode on The Hobbit will be |
| 0:47.8 | available to the patrons today. |
| 0:50.4 | That's the other chapter that goes through Middle Earth, which is a thing that we talked about and we have thoughts on. |
| 0:57.5 | So for patrons, that is a patron exclusive available to you. |
| 1:01.1 | So check that out on Patreon. |
| 1:02.3 | We are cramming all of our thoughts on all three of the Hobbit films into one delicious podcast for you. |
| 1:13.0 | Just like should have been done with the story. |
| 1:14.9 | You might say. It's true. |
| 1:15.8 | A little taste there. |
| 1:18.1 | Yes. |
| 1:18.9 | And because Lord of the Rings was our reward for passing 500 patrons, we wanted to take |
| 1:25.2 | this opportunity to announce our next Patreon goal, |
| 1:28.2 | which is that when we pass 750 patrons on the Beyond the Screenplay Patreon, |
| 1:33.6 | we will do a three-part series on the Indiana Jones trilogy. |
| 1:38.2 | Yay! |
| 1:39.1 | With a bonus patron exclusive episode on, of course, Indiana Jones and the Crystal School. |
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