From Book to Script

From Book to Script is the second documentary in the Extended Edition appendix "From Book to Vision" of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. (An equivalent documentary about the second film has the same title, in "Part Three: The Journey Continues".)
Peter Jackson, co-writer Philippa Boyens, and many actors and crew members recount the long process of adapting the text of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring for film, a project that had begun in 1997. This involved countless adjustments of scenes, about a hundred screenplay revisions, and constant reordering of key moments from the story to fit the brevity of a film.
The documentary is followed by "Visualizing the Story".
== Personnel featured ==
* Peter Jackson, director
* Andrew Lesnie, director of photography
* Philippa Boyens, co-writer
* Mark Ordesky, executive producer
* Barrie Osborne, producer
* Rick Porras, co-producer
* Daniel Falconer, conceptual designer
* Alex Funke, director of miniatures photography
* John Gilbert, editor
* Christopher Lee, actor of Saruman
* Sean Bean, actor of Boromir
* Dominic Monaghan, actor of Merry
* Elijah Wood, actor of Frodo
* John Rhys-Davies, actor of Gimli
* Brian Sibley
* Ian McKellen, actor of Gandalf
* Orlando Bloom, actor of Legolas
* Sean Astin, actor of Sam
Category:Features and parts of the Special Extended Editions
Category:Documentaries
Category:Real world topics