Peter Jackson Not Pleased EA Experience

The New York Times reports in an article about the King Kong movie based game that director Peter Jackson wasn't entirely happy with his EA dealings. From the article: "Mr. Jackson, said close associates, chafed at his dealings with the industry heavyweight, Electronic Arts, during the making of the Lord of the Rings games. 'Electronic Arts was not interested in input from the filmmaker,' but later marketed the games as if he were closely involved, said Ken Kamins, Mr. Jackson's manager."

Comments

What's with the misleading headline?

[volpone]

The article has nothing to do with Electronic Arts. It briefly mentions it in a couple of sentences (conveniently copied above) as an aside. That's all.

It's a good article, but come on, enough with the obligatory EA bashing.

Re:What's with the misleading headline?

[sgant]

Yeah, no kidding. I clicked on the article thinking it would be a whole story about this, but come on...it's mentioned in a few times in an article that has nothing to do with this issue.

The summary that the main poster made was ALL of the EA stuff mentioned in the article!

Re:Forget Peter Jackson

[LordLucless]

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the movies, and I think that they were some of the best book-to-movie conversions, especially on that sort of scale, that I've ever seen. But I really do wish they'd included Scouring of the Shire. It was my favourite chapter, and really added quite a lot to the book. Tolkien even wrote specifically about that chapter in his forward, saying that it was an essential part of the books, and planned from the very beginning.