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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.'"
How about abortions for some, but tiny American flags for others? I'm not too excited to see which of my orifices they pick to shove the little vacuum cleaner up.
I won't watch it unless this great video is on there: http://www.game-revolution.com/download/goodies/bi lbo.htm
After you see it you'll understand!
- Pinching one off
- Taking a smash
- Dropping the kiddies off at the pool
HehOk, I'll take the bait. Hollywood writers, are you listening ? Here is a scenario to spend your 400 million bucks:
It's the year 2012, 1st of January. The situation on Earth is going haywire. Nations are on the edge of a global thermonuclear and biological war. Terrorism and environmental pollution everywhere.
A famous British physicist, an old folk living somewhere in London, issues a warning to the world: the world is about to end in 2012!!! after that, he disappears. The world thinks its about the coming holocaust. But they are so wrong...
A huge armada of extra-terrestrial ships appears on the sky of Earth. They bombard the hell out of Earth, killing 90% of the population and destroying all major cities. The extra-terrestrials look just like humans, only they are taller, better-shaped, blond with blue eyes and more beautiful!!! (they are reproduced in a lab...) They only difference is that their color is slightly bluish. They take over Earth and establish a dictatorship. The earth is covered with radioactivity, and most life is destroyed. The radioactivity does not seem to hurt the extra-terestrials. The dictatorship is not very strong though: extra-terrestrials are more occupied in mining Earth than with humans. They consider humans inferior animals.
The radioactivity will kill all earth life in two years time.
During the destruction, the nations of the world unite. A group of people from all over the world, scientists, economic leaders, politicians, army officers and others is assembled to find a solution. The daughter of the British scientist is also invited.
During the meeting, this girl receives a strange message in her cellphone from her father!!! the message contains a detailed map of the universe between Earth and a far distant planet in the other side of the galaxy(at the exact opposite where Earth is, in a solar system that is replica of Earth) that the British scientist is kept prisoner. The message contains plans for a machine that can restore Earth in its previous state. It also contains: 1) plans for a spaceship engine that can make spaceships travel faster than the speed of light, 2) plans for an engine that produce artificial gravity/antigravity, 3) a way to communicate instantly from any part of the universe, using quantum entanglement.
The team decides to build a spaceship, in secret from the alien government, that would travel to that planet, fetch the machine and restore Earth to its previous state.
The spaceship is built according to the plans the scientist has sent. In the process of designing the ship, scientists find that the energy mechanism of the engine can also be used as a weapon for firing a huge beam that travels in the speed of light and disintegrates everything in its path, even planets and stars...but in order to be used, it has a loading time of 1 minute, during which the ship has no energy available for any other system.
The ship is manned with Navy crew, marines and Airforce fighter pilots; the best of all nations. It is a hybrid of the Battleship Arizona and the carrier Enterprise. It is quite big, in order to include many functions, but it has 3 parts that can be detached and work separately. It also looks like an Earth vessel, like a tanker, in order to fool extra-terrestrials in its trial runs. It is also manned with the daughter of the British scientist, and a science crew. The leader of the fighter pilot squadron is one of the protagonists, which fells in love with the girl. The pilot has lost his family (parents, siblings) in the bombings.
After almost one year of construction and testing, the ship is ready to go. But the extra-terrestrials find out about it and send a couple of alien planes to destroy it. But the earth ship is much more powerful and destroys the planes. Then, the aliens send 3 destroyers, which again are destroyed. The earth ship is chased around Earth, but it seems that it is superior technologically and the crew are much better fighters than the extra-terrestrials, which show
And the ever popular 'Sending a Marine to Sea'
Non tam praeclarum est scire Latine, quam turpe nescire
-- Cicero
Don't forget:
- Dropping a Load
- Baking Brownies
- Giving Birth to a Brown Baby Boy
- Dropping a Bomb
- Launching Torpedos
- Laying Cable
And my personal favorite, "Pebble-dashing the porcelain"."It's better to have a gun and not need it than need a gun and not have it." ~ Christian Slater, True Romance