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Peter Jackson Says "Hobbit" Movie In The Works

Posted by timothy on from the that's-what-bilbo-baggins-hates dept.

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.)

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  1. Wow this joke is pretty funny by Joke+Police · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean Tolkien's estate is gonna let Jackson rape yet another one of JRR's masterpieces? Wow, that was the best joke to come out of Slashdot yet. Better than the usual HURR M$ SUX0RS!!!1! crap you guys put out.

    Wait, it's not a joke?

  2. The Lord of the Rings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all,
    One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  3. BULL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's see what topics are on Slashot, that supposedly define a 'geek':

    - Elvish language

    - Hobbit movie

    - Manga comics

    Yeahhhh right...

    Who runs Slashdot anyway - are they into new age shit or what?

  4. Re:Was LOTR really that good? by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: -1, Troll
    On the subject of Peter Jackson, is there anyone else who feels that, in hindsight, the LOTR trilogy was maybe not quite as great as it could have been?

    I completely agree. I'm sure you could've done a much better job than Jackson did.

    --
    I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
  5. Best to have a backup plan. .. by index72 · · Score: -1, Troll

    when kk falls on its ass.

  6. English scholars READ THIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This, ladies and gentlemen, must surely be the canonical example of half-witted, lazy, ignorant, atrocious, appalling abuse of the English language to have been encapsualted in a single sentence by a native speaker(*) in the last three hundred years.

    I suspect we could spend years searching the textual outpourings of the deeply uneducated before finding such a gem again. I commend it to you.

    If your writing something for yourself you write it completly different then if you are going to write for others to read.


    I feel honoured to have been present at a paradigm shift.


    (*) Clearly a native speaker - the wild, astonishing misuse of 'there' proves it.

  7. Re:Jackson v. Lucas by megastar · · Score: 0, Troll


    I have no worries about The Hobbit. I'm psyched.

    Psyched for the fat git to...

    1. leave out most of the beginning
    2. add in a twee love story
    3. mess around with the characters
    4. mess around with the plot
    5. leave out the ending

    Piss off and fall off a cliff Peter Jackson you fucking great wanker.