Fran Walsh
New Zealand screenwriter and film producerWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
Joshua StolteHOST
But I was not aware that this was directed and written by Peter Jackson.
Jay ShepardHOST
Yeah, and Peter Jackson with Fran Walsh, who had been his writing partner for, I think this was like the third or the fourth movie they had worked on together.
Jay ShepardHOST
And this is the last movie that he did, because of course this was 1996.
Jay ShepardHOST
Before the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Joshua StolteHOST
I just don't like the slasher movies for just gory, just, yeah, yucky.
Joshua StolteHOST
Yeah.
Jay ShepardHOST
Yeah, and I believe that film was the first movie that Fran Walsh worked with Peter Jackson on.
Jay ShepardHOST
That's where they started their relationship.
Benedict TownsendHOST
As a combination, I think that's quite a good combo.
Benedict TownsendHOST
You also had Fran Walsh.
Benedict TownsendHOST
Fran and Philippa were, like, obsessive Lord of the Rings fans.
Benedict TownsendHOST
He kind of wasn't, and I think that's kind of what you want.
Erik NyströmHOST
Den måste ju starta någonstans.
EmilHOST
I don't know if it's a family, but a family, I don't know if it's a family, it could be like brother, his wife, the children, and then grandfather Emil is also here by the side.
EmilHOST
You have
Erik NyströmHOST
to lie with one of your parents who dies first.
Erik NyströmHOST
Then the other woman dies shortly after.
Erik NyströmHOST
So then all three are in the same grave.
Erik NyströmHOST
I'm not sure that the first wife had this in the planning.
Erik NyströmHOST
Exactly my idea.
speaker_0HOST
I like that term.
speaker_1HOST
Jackson, along with his co-writers Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, and Stephen Sinclair, they achieved something miraculous.
speaker_1HOST
They had to take all of Tolkien's deep, mesmerizing lore and distill it into visual shorthand.
speaker_0HOST
Give me a concrete example of that economic translation in action.
speaker_6HOST
But if he leans too far into the kindly grandfather thing, he completely loses the threat of power.
speaker_7HOST
power.Yeah, and that brings in the second vital ingredient Hinduja highlights, which is director Peter Jackson's precision along with his writing team, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
speaker_6HOST
They really treated Tolkien's text like this fragile artifact, didn't they?
speaker_7HOST
They did.
Matthew PeltonHOST
This movie was once again directed by our favorite New Zealander, Peter Jackson.
Matthew PeltonHOST
It was written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boynes.
Nicholas WarnerHOST
Let's fucking go.
Nicholas WarnerHOST
Fran Walsh is so back.
Nicholas WarnerHOST
Dude, our
Matthew PeltonHOST
trilogy of writers.
Matthew PeltonHOST
We gotta get
Nicholas WarnerHOST
Fran Walsh in the Hall of Fame.
Heather GreenePANELIST
And it was directed, yes, by Peter Jackson, um, who is, uh, Lord of the Rings fame, of Lord of the Rings fame, if you don't know.
Heather GreenePANELIST
Co-written by him and Fran Walsh.
Heather GreenePANELIST
Um, it was released in July.
Heather GreenePANELIST
Originally supposed to release in October, but they rushed it to hit the, um, the July big box office time.
Chris HewittHOST
Uh, 'cause I mentioned the origin of the project at the beginning, and then he did mention it, and then we came back to it again, and he went, "Oh yeah, saw a ghost that time.
Chris HewittHOST
I was living with Fran." He lives, you know, with his wife, Fran Walsh.
Chris HewittHOST
And, uh, years before they did The Frighteners, he saw a ghost, and the, the story of that is in there as well.
Chris HewittHOST
But he talks about nearly directing a Bond movie.
John CrinanGUEST
I feel it was like about three years.
John CrinanGUEST
I might be wrong, but if you think about all the armor and miniatures and stuff that they were building for years and years before we ever saw a glimpse of it, a lot of those, and then writing them as well, which he did with Fran Walsh and Philippa Bones I think her name was you know that's that would just have been his life for those five years and he must have had already had the okay from the Frighteners
Andy Conduit-TurnerHOST
yeah the Frighteners episode too right because that is I haven't seen that for a long time now that's a really good little underrated
Ben ErringtonHOST
horror gem I'm just looking, and this obviously isn't in relation to, well, I guess it kind of is in relation to Peter Jackson, but in terms of like Lord of the Rings, there must have been tons and tons of versions that didn't get made.
Isaiah BrownHOST
[laughs]
Reggie HillHOST
So the screenplay for this was written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson.
Reggie HillHOST
And obviously, it's based on the novel by writer J.R.R. Tolkien.
Reggie HillHOST
So that's all I needed to add, is I wanted to make sure that I didn't forget the people who actually wrote the screenplay.
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