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Peter Jackson Will Not Be Making The Hobbit
An anonymous reader writes "Due to legal wranglings with New Line Cinema over accounting issues for Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will not be involved in the making of either The Hobbit or the planned Lord of the Rings prequel." I suppose there is still a chance that Jackson & Co. could end up involved, but at this point that looks unlikely.
Given the hideous mess he made of LOTR, I'm relatively pleased that he won't be butchering The Hobbit in the same way. I am, however, horrified at the thought of a "prequel" to LOTR, no matter who ends up directing/producing it.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Or, at the very least, not make us sit through a 25-minute slow pan over some forest in the middle of a scene that took up about 2 pages in the books.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Star Wars was a Lucas creation or he was at least a great part of the process. The only thing Peter Jackson did was take a great story and turn it into a poorly digested travesty, made up of all the cinematic eye-candy of the day. As a longtime Tolkien reader, I hated all the LOTR movies (Aragorn, for instance, was one of the worst misscast character I ever saw; or perhaps it was just his... haircut).
Peter Jackson should drop his pseudo bohemian-intellectual act and direct unabashedly commercial and brain-numbing movies. It would be honest at least.