The One Director
Peter Jackson will not be directing the film adaptation of The Hobbit. Here is PJ’s letter to the Ringers.
The short explanation is that New Line Cinema is run by money-grubbing Uruk-hai.
PJ made a magnificent screen adaptation of The Lord Of The Rings. He got Tolkien right. His movie trilogy won a truckload of Oscars and earned US$2.9 Billion. He IS a Hobbit. For crying out loud, pay him what you owe him so he can get to work on the damn movie.
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December 1st, 2006 at 09:31
Hear hear. Then again, there’s a rumor that he might indeed do it if MGM is true to their word.
“Happily, that conflict seemed to be clearing up last week, when the story broke that MGM — owner of the distribution rights to The Hobbit, but not the rights to the motion picture, which is the property of New Line—was prepared to finance a new film and wanted Jackson to direct. There was just one catch: According to Jackson, nobody at MGM has actually called him. Ever.”
here’s the link:
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1537662_1_0_,00.html
December 7th, 2006 at 04:29
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