Keeping Track of Jackson's "Hobbit"

[Barliman Butterbur]

7/19/2004

It looks like Time Warner and New Line Cinema are about to purchase MGM, with the consequence, that the rights on The Hobbit would be in one hand. So a big obstacle for The Hobbit movie would simply disappear.
Peter Jackson has confirmed his interest again.

http://derhobbit-film.de/indexengl.shtml

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Hobbit Bonus in MGM Buy

Acquisition may yield ''small'' benefits.
July 19, 2004 -

New Line Cinema is getting serious in their pursuit of The Hobbit rights... so much so that they've unleashed parent company Time Warner on Hobbit rights holder MGM in a bid to buy the entire studio. Okay, maybe that's not the sole motivation behind the deal, but according to today's Variety, Time Warner is expected to snatch up MGM now that merger talks with Sony have started to flounder. As the trade says, The Hobbit would certainly be a nice bonus in such a deal.

Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson is currently prepping for King Kong, but he's free after that. Back when New Line and MGM were going the traditional rights negotiating route, Jackson told AP Radio, "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. I'm obviously busy for a couple of years on King Kong so those lawyers can just go at it for a long time."

The Hobbit follows Bilbo Baggins (played by Ian Holm in the Rings films), who found the ring and passed it on to his nephew, Frodo.

Jackson also told AP that he'd want the movie, naturally, to look a lot like the Rings trilogy. "I'd want Ian McKellen to be back as Gandalf, I'd want it to feel like it was part of the same mythology that we've done with Lord of the Rings," Jackson said.

-- Brian Linder

http://filmforce.ign.com/lotr/articles/531/531520p1.html

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Barley

[Arvedui]

And my hair is rising on my head again.... :eek:

[Inderjit S]

It sounds great! I hope that P.J, or whoever ends up directing the movie does a good job and stays true to the book.

[joxy]

I hope that P.J, or.... does a good job and stays true to the book.
As fine a piece of wishful thinking as I've seen in a long time!
Luckily the poet Tolkien does tell us about the many noble men who lived before the time of Aragorn. :D

[Inderjit S]

Yes, well there is not as much to change in 'The Hobbit' as there was in the enormous 'Lord of The Rings', any change may be superfluous, some of the changes in LoTR were needed.

Oh and it is meant to be I hope "that" P.J etc. not I hope "the" P.J etc;but it turns out that joxy kindly quoted the passage where I made the mistake and thus I cannot change it now. :o

[joxy]

I hadn't noticed that Inder, but now you've mentioned it I've changed it. :cool: