The Hobbit coming...sometime
http://apnews.myway.com//article/200...D814VP480.html
"EW YORK (AP) - Peter Jackson won't be returning to the Shire any time soon. The Oscar-winning director is planning to film "The Hobbit," the prequel to "The Lord of the Rings," trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, but two studios must first fight over legal rights to the film.
Jackson said New Line Cinema has the rights to make the movie, but MGM has the rights to distribute it.
"I guess MGM's lawyers and New Line's lawyers are going to have a huge amount of fun over the next few years trying to work it all out," he told reporters recently in Los Angeles, according to AP Radio. "I'm obviously busy for a couple of years on 'King Kong' so those lawyers can just go at it for a long time."
Hey, it's just a little tease, but it's enough for me to get the geek juices flowing.
Jeff
"EW YORK (AP) - Peter Jackson won't be returning to the Shire any time soon. The Oscar-winning director is planning to film "The Hobbit," the prequel to "The Lord of the Rings," trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, but two studios must first fight over legal rights to the film.
Jackson said New Line Cinema has the rights to make the movie, but MGM has the rights to distribute it.
"I guess MGM's lawyers and New Line's lawyers are going to have a huge amount of fun over the next few years trying to work it all out," he told reporters recently in Los Angeles, according to AP Radio. "I'm obviously busy for a couple of years on 'King Kong' so those lawyers can just go at it for a long time."
Hey, it's just a little tease, but it's enough for me to get the geek juices flowing.
Jeff
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credit where credit is due nonetheless
gamers may be more interested in this version
and I recently rewatched the animated version, which I first saw in 77 when it was new.
i'd rather watch latham's, if not jackson's... but the likelihood of an 'approved' film is lower than one might think... IIRC, the rights to The Hobbit may still be held by the production company that did the animated version... certainly the Tolkien estate may have some leverage, but if memory serves, it would involve an additional layer of negotiation at least.
Smaug's cave ain't nothin' compared to the wealth they could have if they work out a deal.
Originally posted by rageous
The Hobbit is beyond boring.
Really?? I thought that it was by far the best book out of the whole series.
The Two towers, and the return of the king are much darker, and thus inherantly more turned to melodrama. The hobbit will be great.
You go my lad
ho ho my lad
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and one has to hope they don't use Nimoy for the music video this time
Jeff
Originally posted by curiousuburb
more dwarves, no orcs. (trolls, goblins, and evil elves though).
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Originally posted by jeffyboy
Smaug would be worth the price of admission for me.
Jeff
Amen to that. The whole greed thing at the lonely mountain, Laketown. Oh baby!
If Jackson did it right, it would be priceless.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
more dwarves, no orcs. (trolls, goblins, and evil elves though).
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Goblins ARE Orcs.
The elves are not evil; they simply don't like dwarves. It is the wood elves of Mirkwood who send Legolas to Rivendale in Fellowship. (Left out of the movie, Legolas goes to Rivendale to report that Gollum has escaped from the Mirkwood elves--left in their care by Gandalf himself.)