New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film?

DrJimbo writes "Just in time for the 70th Anniversary of the Hobbit (published September 21, 1937) Entertainment Weekly has a 5-page article on a possible reconciliation between Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema that may pave the way for the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy to return and helm the filming of The Hobbit. It was previously reported here that Jackson would not be making the Hobbit film. The EW article says that Jackson wants to make two films: first the Hobbit in its entirety and then another film that bridges the roughly 60 years between the end of the Hobbit and the start of the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately Jackson already has a lot on his plate with filming of The Lovely Bones scheduled to start this month and a live action Tintin film in the works."

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Re:Hope?

[nagora]

So you're one of the four people in the world that think that books should be adapted to movies exactly word for word.

No, I'm one of the other four people that still thing that people who can't direct shouldn't be allowed to. Jackson butchered LotR, sure, but that's nothing to do with adapting such a long book. Anyone would have to make cuts and changes make LotR into a watchable movie (or set of movies). Everything that worked in the films was down to other people: the acting (in the face of a terrible script), design, cinematography etc. were all superb. But Jackson's "I flicked through the book once and didn't like it" script sucked, and his direction was comically bad.

TWW