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The definitive history of Peter Jacksons Middleearth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brandnew interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and, finally, Oscar glory.

Lights
A nineyearold boy in New Zealands Pukerua Bay stays up late and is spellbound by a sixtyyearold vision of a giant ape on an island full of dinosaurs. This is true magic. And the boy knows that he wants to be a magician.

Camera
Fastforward twenty years and the boy has begun to cast a spell over the filmgoing audience, conjuring goresplattered romps with bravura skill that will lead to Academy recognition with an Oscar nomination for Heavenly Creatures. The boy from Pukerua Bay with monsters reflected in his eyes has arrived, and Hollywood comes calling. What would he like to do next? How about a fantasy film, something like The Lord of the Rings?

Action
The greatest work of fantasy in modern literature, and the biggest, with rights ownership so complex it will baffle a wizard. Vast. Complex. Unfilmable. One does not simply walk into Mordor unless you are Peter Jackson.

Anything You Can Imagine tells the full, dramatic story of how Jackson and his trusty fellowship of Kiwi filmmakers dared take on a quest every bit as daunting as Frodos, and transformed JRR Tolkiens epic tale of adventure into cinematic magic, and then did it again with The Hobbit. Enriched with brandnew interviews with Jackson, his fellow filmmakers and many of the films stars, Ian Nathans mesmerising narrative whisks us to Middleearth, to gaze over the shoulder of the director as he creates the impossible, the unforgettable, and proves that filmmaking really is anything you can imagine.