Empire Magazine's Return of the King

Empire magazine features a preview of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Here's a taste of what director Peter Jackson said in the article.

'We've gone through two entire movies and six hours of exposition,' is director Peter Jackson's take on Return of the King, 'Now we get three hours of exposition, and now we get three hours of pay-off.'

'I've come to realise that the third film is the reason why you make the first two,' he goes on to say. 'You want to get to this one, you want to finish it. Also, when Film Three is released you get this other dynamic � at that point it will probably become in most people's minds, a nine-hour film.'

There's more from the article at the source link above.