Sir Peter Jackson’s ‘Get Back’ Movie Is Taking Longer Than Lord of the Rings When Sir Peter Jackson was given access to The Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ sessions and returned to New Zealand to reboot ‘Let It Be’ he had no idea that the project would take more time to make than his epic ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. In a new interview with GQ magazine Sir Peter says, “you normally edit a movie, like a Lord Of The Rings type, in about three or four months, but this has been two years. It’s a very complicated thing to cut”.