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PETER JACKSON SUPER DRAFT (with Matt Mercer & Josh Miller, and Graham Skipper)

Screen Drafts

Clay Keller

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.7556 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 242 minutes

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Summary

Actor, editor, producer, and newly-minted Screen Drafts All-Star Matt Mercer (Dementia: Part II, Jimmy & Stiggs) is joined by screenwriter, producer, podcaster and Screen Drafts Rookie Josh Miller (Violent Night, Best Movies Never Made, Jimmy & Stiggs) to rank all 11* feature films from legendary director and special effects wizard PETER JACKSON!

Filling in for Ryan as co-commissioner is Screen Drafts Legend and Middle Earth scholar Graham Skipper!

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*Only ONE Middle Earth movie

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you. Welcome to Screen Drafts, the podcast where experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric best of lists.

0:44.6

I'm Draft Commissioner Clay Keller here with me, filling in for my usual co-commish Ryan Marker screen drafts legend Graham Skipper

0:58.4

Smog smowg I got to practice clay I got a practice smowg this is what we were doing

1:05.8

off Mike we were all making sure that we know how to pronounce smout smog smog smow smowg did we decide it smog

1:14.7

smog that is what jr or tolkin would have said and i know that because i took a lord of the rings

1:21.9

and philosophy class in college clay wow well that is why is here. We needed somebody with a literal college experience

1:31.0

studying one of the movies that will make the list today. That's the only Lord of the Rings film

1:39.0

I've seen is the desolation of Smog. That's the only one. Yeah, but I've seen it 800 times.

1:45.6

Right.

1:46.1

And you can sort of extrapolate from there and kind of just assume what happens in the other ones. And they're not as good. Yeah. No, they're not. None of them are. None of them are as good. No film is as good. It's my favorite film, Clay. It's your favorite film. Well, I look forward I look forward to hearing us talk about the Hobbit, the

2:03.9

Desolation of Smog in the Legends undrafted draft coming up in a few weeks as it is your favorite film.

2:11.7

But Graham, thank you for joining us here today. Delighted to have you at the table, almost as delighted as I am to have at the draft table,

2:22.3

our two GMs, one of whom is a rookie.

2:25.9

We just did a whole rookie month where every GM all month was a rookie,

2:31.8

and we're continuing that energy at least at least halfway's here today,

2:37.8

joining us at the draft table for the very first time. Josh Miller is here. Hello, happy to be here.

2:45.0

Yeah. Smauk. Josh, uh, welcome to the draft table.

2:52.2

This is your first time.

2:53.9

Uh, you were approached by your co-GM to, to join him for this.

2:58.5

Uh, what are your initial thoughts?

3:01.2

Do you have reservations?

3:03.7

Are you excited?

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