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Rejected Pitches: The Lord of the Rings

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Published on Dec 10, 2012

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Rejected Pitches: The Lord of the Rings
There's no need to stretch out a plot about a bunch of tiny, hairy jewelry-loving men into three separate movies.

Rejected Pitches: The vast majority of movie pitches are rejected. Even movies that we know and love--or sort of love--were most likely rejected at some point, too. This is a webseries about the movie executives who rejected those pitches.

Episode Credits:

Starring Kelly Hudson, Dan Klein, Ben Rameaka
Featuring Jim Santangeli as Peter Jackson
Written and Created by Dan Klein
Above Average Producers Celeste Ballard & Brendan McMorrow
Directed by Greg Stees
Edited by Kelly Hudson
Sound by Jeff Gaumer
Makeup by Hanna El-Assad

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  • Peter Fields

    Peter Fields 5 months ago

    Sadly, I've met people exactly like these three in pitch meetings. You NAILED it.

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  • Mel Cotton

    Mel Cotton 5 months ago

    "...weird little person homo-erotic jewellery movie." That just about sums it up.

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  • TheArnzy

    TheArnzy 4 days ago

    Wth? We don't sound like that!!! That's a terrible NZ accent.

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  • Brockwall56

    Brockwall56 1 week ago

    Why does he say sorry to allison at the end?

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  • CynicalFaget

    CynicalFaget 3 weeks ago

    i want to kill all the people in the world who are like those fucks

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  • crayzsnail

    crayzsnail 1 month ago

    Is that a brain candy poster in the background?

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  • Eliza O'Connell

    Eliza O'Connell 1 month ago

    he sounds south african..

    

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  • TheManowarcraft

    TheManowarcraft 2 months ago

    I'm not sure whether to laugh at the humor or to vomit at this not being far from the truth about some of the idiots doings these things to movies scripts and tv...

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  • nosuchthing8

    nosuchthing8 2 months ago

    This isn't that far from the mark. The godfather book was wildly popular, but they were seriously considering setting it in the 1970s, and most of the main characters were were going to be blue eyed and blonde haired.

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  • AsmodeusCain

    AsmodeusCain 2 months ago

    I am guessing they don't know how to read.

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    AsmodeusCain 2 months ago

    I seriously want to punch those three...seriously...

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