Mark Rand Gustafson

Nov 2, 2024 | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Guillermo del Toro |Mark Rand Gustafson |Alex Vo

One easy way to get that Best Picture win at the Oscars? Spend your burgeoning directing career on strange and grotesque genre pictures, then hook up with a major studio to work on Lord of the Rings, with hundreds of millions of dollars in budget. Obviously! It worked for Peter Jackson, whose Dead Alive and Meet the Feebles movies did little to suggest he would one day get the gold trophy for The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.