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All had not been well in Middle-earth.... Following the third Lord of the Wedding rings movie premiered in 2003, admirers of the series eagerly anticipated creation and release of its prequel, The Hobbit. It proved they had a while to wait, as a series of troubles delayed creation for years. Then, in September 2010, when almost anything seemed resolved, U.S. and international stars unions given a pub-lic alert advising their participants "not to accept work on this non-union creation." Warner Bros. threatened to rip the troubled production from the united states and situations quickly spiraled out of control. New Zealand plunged into crisis. Cutting down The Hobbit was do or pass away for the neighborhood film industry, and the federal government scrambled to avoid devastation. Protests and rallies erupted and the island nation's money dropped on the likelihood of burning off the half-billion dollar task. Director Peter Jackson vowed to "struggle like hell" to keep the photograph in New Zealand. But studio executives flew in from Los Angeles like colonial masters ready to bring down the hammer. What occurred next was almost amazing - and demonstrated, if little or nothing else, that not absolutely all Hollywood episode is on the screen.
