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He wants to experience the giddy thrill of sitting in a cinema 20 years ago and having his mind blown by a film they said could never be made. It’s obnoxious, because – at least in the way I have chosen to interpret the plan – he wanted to experience the genius of his own work without the baggage of remembering what it was like to make it. Photograph: Amazon Prime Studio undefined I’ve been thinking about this for hours, and I genuinely can’t decide whether Peter Jackson’s plan is admirable or utterly obnoxious. And imagine doing it as the person who made the thing you want to scrub. Imagine wanting to see something so badly that you’d be willing to scrub your brain of all prior knowledge of it.

Sadly, however, the mind-erasing did not happen, largely because it appears to be a genuinely impossible thing to do.īut, honestly, the balls on the man. That “hypnotherapy guy” was reportedly Derren Brown, and Jackson apparently consulted with him about blank-slating his own brain of nine hours of cinema. “It was such a loss for me not to be able to experience them like everyone else was, that I actually did seriously consider going to a … hypnotherapy guy to hypnotise me, to make me forget about the films and forget about the work I’d done over the last six or seven years, so at least I could sit and enjoy them,” he said. On a recent episode of the Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, Jackson revealed that the most galling thing about making the Lord of the Rings trilogy was not getting to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a fan.

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Amazon’s deal with the Tolkien estate meant that its TV show had to be distinct from Jackson’s trilogy, which effectively prohibited his involvement. The first part is, sadly, down to matters of important business. Not only does Peter Jackson claim that Amazon effectively ghosted him, first asking for help and then never following up, he also wants to professionally wipe his brain of everything to do with Lord of the Rings.