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Hobbit Movie in Four Years?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the there-and-back-again dept.

Antarctic Lemur writes "At the Powerhouse Museum LOTR Exhibition in Sydney, Peter Jackson has said a film version of The Hobbit is three years away at least. Reasons for the delay include the sale of MGM, which part-owns the movie rights to The Hobbit, and Jackson's recently filed suit against New Line Cinema, the other part-owner. Jackson is currently filming King Kong at his new facility in Wellington, NZ. Slashdot readers will also be interested in the high security planned for King Kong's pre-release screenings."

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  1. In Other News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My plans to kill myself have been postponed by at least 4 years.

  2. All the security in the world... by CtrlPhreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can have all the security in the world and you can't keep king kong down, the chains, the fences. Nature always will find a way, he just likes climbing tall buildings grasping girls in his clutches. We just need to accept that and move on.

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  3. since this: by LordKronos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently, he's suing them over profits
    http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/02/film. rings.reut/index.html

  4. Jackson... by flumps · · Score: 5, Funny

    sits down and starts singing about Gold.

    l

    You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall to the east there is the round green door you see :
    the wooden chest.
    Gandalf. Gandalf is carrying a curious map.
    Jackson.
    Gandalf gives the curious map to you.
    Jackson waits.

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  5. Out of the way...... by darth_silliarse · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. I ,for one, welcome our new hobbit overlords.
    2. In Soviet Russia the hobbits own you.
    3a Make LOTR Trilogy
    3b Sue New Line Cinema
    3c Make Hobbit
    3d ?????
    3e Profit!
    4. Imagine a beowulf cluster of Hobbits!
    5. Hobbits? Do they run Linux?
    6. Hobbits are real, Netcraft confirms it.
    7. Didn't you RTFA??
    8. All your hobbits are belong to us.
    9. I have no hobbits, you insensitive clod!

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  6. Hopefully done in an appropriate style by quantax · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While this is not un-expected, I really do hope that Jackson adopts a style that suits The Hobbit as the atmosphere in 'Lord of the Ringss' is much more serious than that in The Hobbit. What is enjoyable about The Hobbit as a book is that it has a much more fairy tale, easy-going quality than the epic that is LOTR; it is well suited for children, (for whom Tolkien originally wrote for anyway, his own children specifically). It's only at the end of The Hobbit that you really begin to see the type of writing that is present in LOTR, and the final battle of The Hobbit is the most action-filled scene in the book. I just hope Jackson does not merely use the same exact atmosphere from LOTR 'because it works', and instead considers that The Hobbit is not merely a prelude to LOTR, but its own seperate story & unique tone.

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