Regisseur Peter Jackson praatte met Entertainment Weekly over de DVD van Return of the King:

[eng]There are scenes that were cut from the finished film. Will we see them on DVD?

We have an hour of footage we shot for "Return of the King" that we didn't put in the movie. I'm going to work on an extended DVD version, though I don't think all of that will make it in because the pacing would be really weird. But there's some good stuff that's not in the book. We did a funny scene between Gimli and Legolas having a drinking competition which I really quite liked, but we felt [it was too comedic] at a point when we wanted to set up the tension of the story. And there's a sequence of Sam and Frodo disguised as orcs where they end up in the orc army for a while.

Speaking of tough, are you looking forward to remaking "King Kong"?

"Kong"'s going to be hard. It's hard to make a good movie, whether it's big or small, but this time I'm looking forward to making just one film.[/eng]