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Peter Jackson Will Not Be Making The Hobbit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-sad-day dept.

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.

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  1. off-topic by kisrael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, didn't see any further contact info but your "geeks as teamsters" sig is thought-provoking...

    as a geek i always thought we get treated pretty frickin' well, relatively, like salary wise and all that. But we provide criticial functions as well. which side of that does your .sig mostly mean to imply, or is there another angle I'm not thinking about?

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  2. Re:A Prequel??? by AlanS2002 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The Hobbit or the planned Lord of the Rings prequel"

    Sorry?? The Hobbit *IS* the prequel to LOTR. Please tell they're not going
    to get some Hollywood paint-by-numbers screenwriters commitee to butcher Tolkeins
    ideas and come up with some Phantom Menace debarcle? Will they have Gollum with
    dreadlocks and speaking in some fau-jamaican patois and Gandalf as some all-american
    apple pie and freckles kid who Has Yet To Discover His Powers blah blah etc etc.
    Gah!

    No, "The Hobbit" is not a prequel to LOTR. As pointed out by another poster LOTR is a sequel to "The Hobbit". "The Simarillion" however is a prequel to LOTR.

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  3. Re:Peter Jackson by Jaruzel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Woah, a little less of the f**king and maybe people will pay attention to the point you are making.

    -Jar.

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  4. Re:Slashdot effect by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, the Pope is Catholic, and Bears shit in the woods.

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  5. A dictionary says otherwise by AlanS2002 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    prequel
    One entry found for prequel.
    Main Entry: prequel
    Pronunciation: 'prE-kw&l
    Function: noun
    Etymology: pre- + -quel (as in sequel)
    : a work (as a novel or a play) whose story precedes that of an earlier work

    As for karma whoring, why would I bother? My karma is already good.

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