The headline on the AP wire is "Peter Jackson to Direct 'The Hobbit'"
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Jon B. - Dec 18, 2007 7:59:13 am PST #2775 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
sumi - Dec 18, 2007 8:00:09 am PST #2776 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Except that he isn't - he's too busy with the Lovely Bones and Tintin. (!!) to direct.
Kathy A - Dec 18, 2007 8:03:42 am PST #2777 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
It does make me fearful that if the two proposed movies make a billion or so for New Line, Peter Jackson's The Silmarillion won't be too far behind.
On the director/writers commentary for FotR, Phillipa Boyens says that the sound guys got Fran Walsh to scream for the Ringwraith sound cue they needed by telling her that PJ got the rights to the Silmarillion. Fran's retort was that it was seven years of working on the trilogy that did it.
megan walker - Dec 18, 2007 8:07:14 am PST #2778 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Does anyone know which Tintin stories Spielberg and Jackson are adapting?
lisah - Dec 18, 2007 11:30:20 am PST #2779 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Or interesting.
agrees and does not run away! Or, maybe it's an interesting story but the writing was so bad it was hard to tell. I loved the LoTR movies but can not make it past the first couple of chapters of the first book so I'm optimistic that the Hobbit movie will also be enjoyable for me.
Sean K - Dec 18, 2007 12:45:58 pm PST #2780 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
lisah, the LotR books get a lot better after the first half of the first book. It's a stumbling block for a lot of people. It took me several tries.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 18, 2007 1:08:40 pm PST #2781 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What's the problem with that?
That out of approximately 50 million pages, only the ones dealing with Beren & Lúthien and Morgoth's struggle against Ungoliant held the slightest interest for me.
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2007 1:11:07 pm PST #2782 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That out of approximately 50 million pages, only the ones dealing with Beren & Lúthien and Morgoth's struggle against Ungoliant held the slightest interest for me.
Seeing his movies only feels mandatory. It's actually completely optional.
Glamcookie - Dec 18, 2007 1:32:53 pm PST #2783 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
We watched Grey Gardens last night. It felt really exploitative. There's definitely a fascinating story to be told about how these two gorgeous, wealthy, connected women turned into old crazies living in a dilapidated, filthy house but seeing them actually living that way felt really wrong. I feel dirty to have watched it.
Laga - Dec 18, 2007 1:39:36 pm PST #2784 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've always thought of The Hobbit as Lord of the Rings for kids.