My choice for the Star Wars sequel trilogy
He would've done really well with it.
No. Look, I'm a massive fan of the LOTR movies and if you look you can find 20-odd years of IMDB and Moviechat posts from me about them... but that doesn't mean that I think PJ is the right guy for Star Wars. Something happened to him after the massive success of the LOTR movies, somehow he lost his touch as a filmmaker, and the result was movies that were increasingly slow-paced, badly edited, effects-heavy, boring, and no fun... cumulating in the miserable catastrophe of the "Hobbit" films.
And PJ seems to have given up on Hollywood after that mess and "Mortal Engines", he's mostly made documentaries since then. And I hope that he can find a joy in making documentary films, that he isn't going to find in modern Hollywood.
He lost his touch with King Kong - MAN, what a bloated, overlong movie THAT was.
Also, the Hobbit was terrible, not just for three whole movies at 3hrs+ each to cover a 350-or-so page children's book, but to use HFR, excessive CGI and 3D to make it.
The thing is, LOTR didn't have any 3D or HFR, and it sparingly used CGI only for big creatures and for compositing the masses of miniature models seamlessly, but I heard that using miniatures and the fancy perspective tricks and sets they used in LOTR became impossible with 3D, and then he decided to use HFR cos maybe he'd seen it somewhere and thought it looked "cool", but it was a miserable failure.
You could see the problems with his filmmaking developing in "RotK" and blossoming in "Kong", too many scenes dragged, too many effects, too much filler, too many bad excuses for humor. I suspect he lost the services of a very good editor around then, or stopped listening to the people who were willing him to tell him when to stop, and of course by the time of "The Hobbit" everything had gone to hell. That shoot was a wretched experience by all accounts, and if you want to hear about how awful look up critic Lindsay Ellis's three-part films on what went wrong*.
I will always wish PJ well, because the "LOTR" movies felt like a gift from the film industry to me, delivered by PJ. So I really hope that making documentaries allows him to rediscover the joys of making films, without the pressures of dealing with the big studios.
* Ellis's three films on the "Hobbit" disaster are entertaining and informative, you can find them on Youtube as: "A Long-Expected Autopsy", "The Battle of Five STudios", and "The Desolation of Warners".
There was nothing wrong with ROTK.