Peter Jackson Says "Hobbit" Movie In The Works

Patik writes "'Lord of the Rings' Director Peter Jackson is planning to film 'The Hobbit,' according to this Associated Press article. Jackson, who is currently filming 'King Kong', is waiting for New Line and MGM, the two studios with rights to the film, to battle it out for rights to make the prequel. Jackson also mentions wanting the movie to feel just like the LOTR trilogy, including having Ian McKellen return as Gandalf." (This is better than just hinting.)

Comments

Smell a Lucas?

[paranode]

I can't help but think that he is risking ruining his great work with the Lord of the Rings series by pushing it too far. I haven't personally read The Hobbit, but from what I've heard it isn't nearly as exciting as the Lord of the Rings series. I just hope Peter Jackson doesn't get to full of himself and pop out a Phantom Menace.

Re:How long can he wait?

[shfted!]

Trolls? Just hire some of the Anonymous Cowards following me around. They'll do plenty well. :D

Re:Uh oh..

[orthogonal]

I know this is probably wrong but the Silmarillon is very much like reading The Bible.

Yes, both are

• well written, absorbing, full of fantastic -- in the sense of "improbable" -- stories,
• both feature scenes of great slaughters in the name of the conflict between good and evil, many predicatd in racial identity -- e.g., elves versus orcs, Israelites versus Canaanites --,
• and both have attracted a following of dedicated, one might say fanatical, readers, some of whom shape their lives to fit the books;
• and both books have only a tenuous grounding in reality, leading most adults to realize that both are interesting, perhaps comforting, in places insightful, certainly inspiring, but in the end, merely make-believe.
  

Uh, that is what you meant by the comparison, right?

Re:Perfected?

[wheany]

Well why don't you come and put your big fat cock in my mouth. I'm sure that would shut me up.