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by mnutt 4334 days ago
Are you familiar with the hilariously bad 1978 version of Lord of the Rings? It's animated, but at some points switches to rotoscoped live action to save on costs. And it doesn't even finish the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpmZyTK2dI

But for all of that, I don't see how it stopped Peter Jackson's movie from being made.