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Peter Jackson Hints At The Hobbit
Hellboy0101 writes "News.com.au is reporting that New Line Cinema is currently in talks to purchase the rights to the film adaptation of The Hobbit. There are apparently some difficulties with getting the go ahead from Tolkien's son Christopher, who is executor of the estate. When asked if New Line has approached him about the project, Jackson said he has not ruled it out, but not until after King Kong is done. 'New Line, which spent $US300million ($415 million) making the films, is already planning to continue its Rings success with an adaptation of Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.
More difficulties with the Tolkien estate were looming, said Jackson, who added that he would be keen to get involved after he finishes remaking King Kong in 2006. "New Line haven't actually talked to me about The Hobbit. I know there's difficulty about the rights, certainly if they want to talk to me about it I'd be keen," he said.'"
Chris Tolkien Gaurds his Father's properties like Smaug Dwarven gold and mithril. The attitudes seem similar too. He single handedly put Iron Crown into bankrupcy by jacking up the licencing costs a couple of years ago, even going so far as to have the printed works seized and destroyed even though they were printed and delivered while still under license. Of course this is all old news to any of my fellow Rolemaster / MERP players.
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He single handedly put Iron Crown into bankrupcy by jacking up the licencing costs a couple of years ago
Iron Crown had a bit to do with it as well. I've talked with some of their authors, and to a one, they all blame ICE. The causes are numerous. Not focusing on new customers, issuing more regional background material than they did adventures, chasing the CCG fad while letting the RPG base deteriorate, etc. Tolkien Enterprises merely sunk an already sinking ship.
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Besides, the animated version of The Hobbit is already a gem.
Have you ever seen the damned thing? I have to admit I think it got the mood right, but man, those misshapen heads- and they really screwed up the elves! They were like little gremlins! The cartoon creators were obviously thinking of the elves that live up at the North Pole making presents for Santa. That's the wrong kind of elf. Although they did refrain from skateboarding down stairs while shooting arrows. That's one thing they did get right.
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Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
If you watch carefully you'll notice that Gimli grabs (and shatters) the axe of the dwarf sitting next to him. He's one smart dwarf, that Gimli.
In the audio commentary to the Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition DVD, Peter Jackson mentioned that he asked to keep the set of Bag End completely intact and in storage rather than having it torn down like most of the rest of the Lord of the Rings sets. New Line agreed, and Peter Jackson said that he has a complete, life-sized Bag End sitting in storage, ready to reassemble on the side of some hill.
I think he cracked a joke about building it somewhere and living in it, but hey, this way they can just break it out of storage and rebuild it and it will be the same set from Fellowship... instant continuity.
After some googling i found this. $100million, not that unreasnoble (and if it goes over budget jackson foots the bill personally) This is far more than a rumour, its already in preproduction and has been for a while. It has been his plan to remake it well before LOTR, with scripts availiable online dating to 1996. It seemes to me you are being overly critcal.
- It is *long* (we didn't get an intermission)
Indeed! I didn't actually notice this until I read your post and checked at IMDb.
FOTR: 178 min (208 min)
TTT: 179 min (222 min)
ROTK: 210 min
Are Peter Jackson actually going to make an Extended Edition of ROTK? I assumed so before, but seeing the non-EE version is about as long...??
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It's *possible*, sure. It's just *unlikely*.
If you consider a book to be a straight narrative from plot point to plot point then you're frankly missing the point. The Scouring of the Shire is my own very-favorite part of the series, because the fate of the world does NOT hinge upon it. These days I tend to look carefully at any work that has as its aim the Saving of the World. When looking at what I can take away from a story, the belief that the act of saving the world is harder than figuring out truthfully what must be done for it to be saved is looking progressively more stupid as I age. I don't blame Jackson for excising it (*something* had to go, I suppose), but it is not an extraneous portion of the story.
Looking at the larger picture, what bothers me isn't that *some* movies are better than the books upon which they were based. If you want a prime example look at The Wizard of Oz, the originals weren't bad but the movie is great. However, the longer the book has been around, the less likely that a movie version, if it happens, will be better, because the older a book is, the better it has to be for studio execs to scent gold it. Also, the older and more beloved the work, the greater a wall of public regard that must be torn down in order to work their grimy magic upon it.
But to step back a bit, what bothers me is the general public perception that the movie is *automatically* better than the book, because it's a *movie*, which is not even true half the time. Yet, Harry Freaking Potter excepted, everyone watches the movie, and far fewer read the book. Film and literature may be different arts, and they mey exchange letters and invite each other over for tea every Tuesday, but the neigoborhood still gossips about them. And the fact is, people always compare them to each other. The fact that movies are extremely huge money these days while most authors work second or even third jobs contributes to this effect.
What got me all hot under the collar in this department was seeing countless works of literature sold with their covers matching the movie adaptation, looking exactly as if they were mere novelizations, copies of truer celluoid. Now it's happening to Lord of the Rings -- just a couple of days ago I saw at the bookstore a compilation of the three novels in the trilogy, with a movie still cover and with movie Gandalf and movie Frodo collectable bookends in a big movie-themed cardboard box. What I hate is the sense that the movie appearances of these characters will become the "official" versions in the minds of everyone who isn't at least an undergrad (which is to say, most people). You may not believe this, but the picture on my own mind of what a Balrog looked like was a hell of a lot nastier than that CGI version, and my own image of hobbits did not take into account the Elijah Wood factor.
Hurting my own argument: What about the Ralph Bakshi versions? No one complained about them?
Ah, but they didn't have hundreds of millions of dollars pushing them into the public consciousness, did they?
It is not insightful, it is flat out wrong on so many things wrong.
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Scroll to the top and reread the story.
Wait, don't both here it is:
"New Line, which spent $US300million ($415 million) making the films, is already planning to continue its Rings success with an adaptation of Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. "
That plainly says they spent the money on the LoTR series, not on the King Kong Remake. Further hints include the little know fact that "films" is plural, whereas "the King Kong remake" is singular.
Oh, and not to pick any nits or anything, but Universal is the one paying Jackson to do the remake of King Kong, and has budgeted 100 million to the project.
The only "insight" is that Simonetta didn't seem to read the original post. The tragedy is that s/he went off on poor defenseless strawman, and got a +5 insightful.
Just goes to show that put enough monkeys at a keyboard and let them bang away, eventually they'll mod anything and everything up to +5 insightful.
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Just a sec....
Isn't NewLine part of AOL^H^H^H Time Warner?
According to This, they are.
And Warner Pictures is too?
Considering there were a number of reports that TW's profits for the last few years was largely influenced by LOTR:FOTR & TTT - it shouldn't take much for NewLine to receive the rights....
Should it?