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New Line And Jackson - Irreconcilable Differences
Petersko writes to mention a CNN article about an escalation between Peter Jackson and New Line that likely means we'll never see a Jackson-helmed "Hobbit" film. From the article: "In an interview with the Sci Fi Channel news service Sci Fi Wire, [New Line co-chairman Bob] Shaye said Jackson will never make another movie for the studio and said the filmmaker just wants more money. 'I don't care about Peter Jackson anymore,' Shaye said. 'He wants to have another $100 million or $50 million, whatever he's suing us for. He doesn't want to sit down and talk about it. He thinks that we owe him something after we've paid him over a quarter of a billion dollars. ... Cheers, Peter.'"
And Tolkien fans rejoiced.
Perhaps they can find someone who has actually read(and understood) the source material this time around?
How does greed work?
I can not imagine ever thinking $250 million is not enough FOR MY OWN back account. It would be different if I owned a company but still that is more money than the GDP of some countries. Good god.
Add to the recent news of the golden parachute of $250 million for the former CEO of home depot when he was fired. He was fired right? I wonder why these people get compensated so much?
If i got fired I think I would get 0 cents and be shown the door like %99.9 of the slashdotters reading this.
Why do we allow our culture to pay people so much money while the minimum wage remains the same for 10 years despite a %400 increase in the cost of living?
I do not blame the studio's and would certainly not want to hire him back again. For 1/10th the cost I could find a top hollywood director which has better talent.
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Is "Tolkienesque" a euphemism for "really terribly written"?
... and then they built the supercollider.
I no longer have respect for greedy Peter Jackson. So the LOTR films were successful. They're done. Over. Yesterday's news. So stop whining about them.
Stop asking for money-- because you are acting just like the overpaid, greedy 'professional' (pick one: baseball, football, hockey, basketball) players that get multimillion-dollar salaries, and DO NOT deserve them.
The LOTR films weren't successful just because of YOU. It was everybody else in the cast and crew that _made_ the film- you just ran around like a fat spoiled managerial type shouting orders. And we all know management, especially upper management is overpaid.
So stop whining. Oh, and King Kong sucked. You're losing the edge, dude.
This outcome is not what we anticipated or wanted, like being anally raped by the GNAA,
Exactly. And the way he pussified Frodo in those movies, he would have likely had Bilbo sucking the dragons cock while Golum gave it to him up the ass. In the books, Frodo was made of way sterner stuff. He stabbed the king of the ring wrathes at table top and rode *himself* to safety over the river to Rivendell. He took a shot at the troll in the mines of Moria. In the movie he was always the victim and looked like he was going to cry all the time. It pissed me off. In the books he was way tougher and that is one of the things I enjoyed about it. Fuck Jackson.
Well, Lord of the Rings was a total crapfest of a book, so if the films turned out crappy, then he must have done a pretty accurate job of the adaptation. That's why i don't particularly like the LotR films - they were based on such shitty material.
... and then they built the supercollider.