Second best christmas present ever

[andrewducker]

I don't usually post from work, but I'm making an exception on my lunch break.

Because Peter Jackson is producing two Hobbit movies:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7150644.stm

(Obviously the best Christmas present would be him directing two movies, but what can you do?)

Oh - and I'm hoping that one of the movies will be the Hobbit while the other will deal with "The Necromancer" and the last meeting of the White Council. Dammit, it's too soon to be excited about movies planned for 2010/11!

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

MGM Chairman Harry Sloan, who was credited by all parties for bringing about the deal, said Jackson found it "impossible" to direct the films and meet proposed release dates in 2010 and 2011 due to other projects in the works. From here.

So Jackson may direct, but it doesn't sound very likely.

And it looks like the content of the second film is yet to be determined.

"He can't get it scheduled and he doesn't want the fans to have to wait for the next two movies," Sloan said. He said the studios might postpone the films if Jackson changed his mind.

Jackson and Walsh envision the first film covering the events of The Hobbit and the second bridging the 80-year gap between that novel and the first book of the trilogy. Much of the plot for the second film would be gleaned from footnotes in The Hobbit that address that gap.

If they are going to write scripts based on footnotes, or other writings, given the quantity of potential source material, there could be an almost endless string of films set in Middle Earth.

[andrewducker]

Cheers for that!

[ophelia-complex.livejournal.com]

I feel you should star in dork tower :-)

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

(I think)