'Hobbitt,''Rings' Prequel, in the Works

[Mr. Goalie]

NEW 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."


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Mr. G

[steveInebriated]

Hmmm... a filming of The Hobbit.... who saw this one coming?

[Mr. Goalie]

Originally posted by steveInebriated@Mar 7 2004, 01:25 PM
Hmmm... a filming of The Hobbit.... who saw this one coming?

Mr. G

[SLUBLUE]

well i think they have to...it would be great

now if they can only get WETA to produce a one hour once a week tv show of the Silmarillion for the sci fi channel...i'll be set

[007]

I hear its dubbed "The Search for More Money: The Peter Jackson Wardrobe Fund"

[madyaks]

I think they needed to do this, The LOTR without the Hobbitt is silly.

[Weird_English_Guy]

Jackson mentioned doing this quite a lot when he was doing press for Return of the King. I'm sure New Line and MGM will sort something out, there is a whole lot of money to be made in this.

[SLUBLUE]

Originally posted by Weird_English_Guy@Mar 7 2004, 01:58 PM
Jackson mentioned doing this quite a lot when he was doing press for Return of the King. I'm sure New Line and MGM will sort something out, there is a whole lot of money to be made in this.

preci$ley

[Bluenotebacker]

I had heard th Tolkien family wasn't going to give Jackson the rights to do the Hobbit because they didn't like the way he portrayed the LoTR story on screen. I hope he makes the Hobbit though, does seem odd not to have it since we have th trilogy. Maybe he could try the Silmarillion

[moedrabowsky]

I had heard th Tolkien family wasn't going to give Jackson the rights to do the Hobbit because they didn't like the way he portrayed the LoTR story on screen.

Really? I thought he did a superb job -- especially his visualizations of the Orcs and Mordor.

[temujin]

Originally posted by Bluenotebacker@Mar 9 2004, 07:39 PM
I had heard th Tolkien family wasn't going to give Jackson the rights to do the Hobbit because they didn't like the way he portrayed the LoTR story on screen. I hope he makes the Hobbit though, does seem odd not to have it since we have th trilogy. Maybe he could try the Silmarillion

And after the Silmarillion, he can film a 100% faithful version of Finnegan's Wake, the fat bearded bastard.

[SLUBLUE]

Originally posted by temujin+Mar 9 2004, 08:37 PM-->

QUOTE(temujin @ Mar 9 2004, 08:37 PM)

[Indu WangZi]

Originally posted by SLUBLUE@Mar 9 2004, 08:57 PM

i think the silmarillion as a weekly series could be bitch

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He's bitchin', man!!!

[TTB]

Originally posted by Bluenotebacker@Mar 9 2004, 07:39 PM
I had heard th Tolkien family wasn't going to give Jackson the rights to do the Hobbit because they didn't like the way he portrayed the LoTR story on screen. I hope he makes the Hobbit though, does seem odd not to have it since we have th trilogy. Maybe he could try the Silmarillion

WTF did they want?

So what if he deviated from the book a bit...hell...he made it better

[temujin]

Originally posted by TTB+Mar 9 2004, 09:33 PM-->

QUOTE(TTB @ Mar 9 2004, 09:33 PM)