Peter Jackson’s Secret to Great Scriptwriting? It Starts on the Floor (opens in new tab)

I rewatch the Lord of the Rings movies at least once a year. They bring me so much joy, and the world they inhabit is so entertaining. Those movies were directed by Sir Peter Jackson, and he also wrote them with his longtime collaborator and partner Fran Walsh. So how did they get movies that big and stories that important out of their heads and onto the page for the greatest adaptations of all time? In a clip from Film Writers, Jackson breaks down the organic, messy, and inspiring workflow t...