Jackson to be executive producer on The Hobbit movie
Written by ady on December 18, 2007 – 6:49 pm -The Associated Press have just announced New Line and Peter Jackson have reached an agreement (at last) and he will act as executive producer with the director yet to be named.
After their “disagreement” was settled last Tuesday, New Line have had to move fast before the rights to The Hobbit movie returned to the previous owner, Saul Zaentz. Zaentz had already stated Jackson would be directing if this happened.
“I’m very pleased that we’ve been able to put our differences behind us, so that we may begin a new chapter with our old friends at New Line,” Jackson’s statement read. “We are delighted to continue our journey through Middle Earth.”
Two Hobbit movies will be filmed at the same time, similar to how the 3 “Lord of the Rings” films were shot. Production will start in 2009 with a release planned for 2010, with the second part the following year.
Lets not kid ourselves though, Jackson has been given a role to appease the “Rings” fans, the special effects team and of course, the original cast of whom many may well be needed for at least one of the Hobbit movies.
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December 18th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
“Lets not kid ourselves though, Jackson has been given a role to appease the “Rings” fans, the special effects team and of course, the original cast of whom many may well be needed for at least one of the Hobbit movies.”
Shorter version: Jackson has been given a role because it’s a no-brainer and good for business.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Got it in one Larry
December 19th, 2007 at 4:15 am
I’m not complaining though
December 19th, 2007 at 6:45 am
It would be awful if Jackson doesn’t direct this film. He’s the only one that can do it right.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Even if Jackson is not the director, he will be hands on for the entire project. Technically he had sub-directors directing scenes for LOTR, as they were filming simultaneously in varying locations for the entire 3 film shoot.
December 27th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
nice!
January 4th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I just hope he doesn’t co-write the screenplay and mess up as much as he did in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Who does he think he is–the inventor of the story? Don’t change the essence of the characters or story in a book that is perfectly fine and written the way it was meant to be written, Jackson.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I hope that Del Toro will be a director. He is the best from all the canditates.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Nicholette, the script had to be changed to make the film good and not drag for hours. They had to reach the biggest audience possible, not only a bunch of geek-freak fanboy.
Same thing will happen with The Hobbit.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I agree with Iam, that film was not made for those that went through the entire series of books only… I for one didn’t know nothing about the lotr before seeing the movie and I think it’s one if not best trilogy ever filmed…
January 13th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
whatever
February 11th, 2008 at 5:52 am
New Line is making me so mad!!! Peter should be in total control but i am happy he got the part he did because he can keep it on the same track as LOTR thank god!
March 5th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Nicholette, please correct me if I’ve interpreted your post wrong.
Iam, I don’t believe that Nicholette would have a problem with leaving certain bits of the story out in order meet real world constraints. However, the character of the personalities within the story should be somewhat sacred.
I have read the books many times. I found that the way they handled Faramir to be distracting at best as I watched the movie, and it darkened my opinion of the movie for some time afterward. There were no special affect issues in leaving Faramir exactly as he was in the books. However, he was rewritten from an honorable and outstanding example of what a Gondorian Steward’s son should be to a small man who was petty and a little passive-aggressive. He was a man of outstanding character in the book, and that should not have changed in the movies. I saw no need to change Faramir’s character in the movies. In fact, if they had let Faramir alone, they could have cut out a nice chunk of cost and time. Because of the rewrite, Faramir took the Ring in the wrong direction (away from Mordor and back to Gondor!)creating more story to tell and stretching the movie out longer than it needed to be.
Don’t get me wrong. I still think the trilogy is the best that has ever been, and each movie is on my top three list of my favorite movies of all time.