From Book to Script

From Book to Script is the second documentary in the Extended Edition appendices, specifically "From Book to Vision", to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Peter Jackson, co-writer Philippa Boyens, and many actors and crew-members tell of the long processes of adapting the text of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring for film, a project that started 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.

Personnel

 * 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