Even after The Return of the King swept the Oscars and broke all kinds of records, Peter Jackson never considered the films done — new scenes were still being shot for the extended editions, including key parts of the Dead Men of Dunharrow sequence. Jackson himself joked about how absurd it was to keep shooting after winning everything, yet the added footage is now treated as definitive. The signal: a project's 'done' date is usually set by convention or exhaustion, not by what the work actually needs.
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