The Hobbit Is Happening!!! With Peter Jackson! (For Real This Time!)

 

Peter Jackson to produce two Hobbit films

 

 

By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Director Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc said on Tuesday they have agreed to make two movies based on the book "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, ending months of legal wrangling.

Jackson, the director of the smash hit "Lord of the Rings" movies, and producer Fran Walsh will executive produce both a "Hobbit" movie and a sequel, but no decision has been made about who will direct the films, Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, co-chairmen and co-CEOs of New Line told Reuters.

MGM Chairman Harry Sloan, who was credited by all parties for bringing about the deal, said Jackson found it "impossible" to direct the film and meet proposed release dates in 2010 and 2011 due to other projects on which he is now working.

"He can't get it scheduled and he doesn't want the fans to have to wait for the next two movies," Sloan said. He said the studios might postpone the films if Jackson changed his mind. http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN1852217820071218

Did I mention YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Any truth in the rumour Tom Cruise is going to star??:rolleyes:

^Not hairy enough. :P

^Not hairy enough. :P

 

Definitely short enough though!!:lol:

Peter Jackson to produce Lord of the Rings' prequel The Hobbit

 

Last updated at 19:16pm on 18th December 2007 Comments

On board: Peter Jackson, who directed Rings, will serve as executive producer for The Hobbit

 

Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy The Lord of the Rings.

Jackson, who directed Rings, will serve as executive producer for The Hobbit. A director for the prequel films has yet to be named.

Relations between Jackson and New Line had soured after Rings, despite a collective worldwide box office gross of nearly $3 billion - an enormous success.

The two sides nevertheless were able to reconcile, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) splitting The Hobbit 50/50, spokesmen for both studios said.

"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 said in a statement.

"We are delighted to continue our journey through Middle Earth."

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The Lord of the Rings movies took in roughly $3 billion at global box offices

 

Two "Hobbit" films are scheduled to be shot simultaneously, similar to how the three "Lord of the Rings" films were made.

Production is set to begin in 2009 with a released planned for 2010, with the sequel scheduled for a 2011 release.

 

Two movies based J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit are in the pipeline

 

Late last year, acrimony between Jackson and New Line became very public, with the studio announcing they would move forward with The Hobbit without the Academy Award-winning director.

Jackson sued New Line over the amount he was paid for "The Fellowship of the Ring," the first installment of the trilogy.

 

That litigation, the two sides announced Tuesday, has been settled.

Jackson, who shepherded Tolkien's Middle-earth saga to the screen in a series of three films, won a best-director Oscar for 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The trilogy also includes 2002's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and 2001's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

New Line, which is owned by Time Warner Inc., holds the rights to produce The Hobbit, while MGM, which is owned by a consortium including Sony Corp. and Comcast Corp., has the right to distribute it.

Can't go without getting a word in edgewise, eh? :P

Can't go without getting a word in edgewise, eh? :P

 

Mine's better, because it's pictorial.:P

 

Anyway, why change the hobbit of a lifetime??:rolleyes:

Yeah, the exact same publicity still they've been using since about '99 or 2000. :sleeping:

 

:p

Yeah, the exact same publicity still they've been using since about '99 or 2000. :sleeping:

 

:p

 

Well if you have any new ones, bring 'em on!!:rolleyes:

MGM CEO Harry Sloan talks 'Hobbit'

 

Dec 18, 2007, 03:13 PM | by Vanessa Juarez

Categories: Movie Biz, The Hobbit

 

This morning, New Line and MGM announced that the Hobbit debacle was over and the first of two planned pics would finally be going into pre-production with Peter Jackson as executive producer. The Hobbit is scheduled for a 2010 release, and the sequel is expected the following year -- the latter having the better chance of being directed by the Lord of the Rings mastermind himself. Shortly after the announcement, Hollywood Insider spoke with MGM CEO Harry Sloan about the details.

EW: You must be delighted that this project is finally moving forward.

HARRY SLOAN: Ecstatic. It’s a great day for MGM and New Line, and to have two Hobbit movies with Peter Jackson, really, I couldn’t imagine anything better happening around Christmastime this year.

 

Can you talk about how this came together? Did this just happen overnight or the last few days?

Well, you know, nothing happens overnight. MGM has always said, and taken a firm position, that we want Peter to be involved, and we have to compliment and be very gratified that [New Line’s Bob Shaye and Michael Lyne] and Peter were able to put their differences aside for the good of these movies. We saw that take place over the last six months. I wouldn’t say it was instant by any means.

It’s seems that for the last year or so MGM has tried to stay out of the fray because this was a disagreement between New Line and Peter Jackson over the lawsuit. So when did you come into the picture, and how persuasive did you have to be?

It was very much in MGM’s interest that we get this property up and running. When I took over the studio, one of our first goals was to develop franchises, and this is the first one we have under the new management, and I also think between The Hobbits and James Bond, we now have two of the best-known franchises in the world, so it’s a really great day for MGM.

Have Peter Jackson and New Line resolved the lawsuit?

Yes, they have. That was part of it, because it wouldn’t have been a good atmosphere.

 

Peter Jackson did say all along that he didn’t want to go into a new deal without having settled the lawsuit.

And, of course, it added a level of complexity to putting the whole deal together. But I think the most important thing was for the participants, for Peter and Bob and Michael, to first get talking and start focusing on what great work they had accomplished together. That began to build a bridge toward cooperation on resolving the lawsuit and, of course, making a deal for Peter to oversee these two movies out of the Hobbit property.

Can you tease us with who might be in line to direct? Guillermo Del Toro, Sam Raimi...

Well, those are the names that have been mentioned and they’re both top directors, excellent directors. It’s Peter’s project. Peter and Bob Shaye are going to oversee it creatively but in the end ... our choice had always been Peter. But if after he and Fran [Walsh, Jackson's wife] and whoever they work with develop the script, if Peter feels comfortable and Bob feels comfortable with another director, then there will be another director.

Is there any chance that Peter could direct the Hobbit sequel?

Well, he could direct either of them.

 

More here: http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2007/12/mgm-ceo-on-the.html

Well if you have any new ones, bring 'em on!!:rolleyes:

 

 

I have some newer ones. But seeing how I probably have more of those stashed away than the biggest fangirls on this forum have of Chris and the guys, I'd really rather not go there right now...

^Sounds like you have a bit of an obsession there!!:stunned:

yeah the hobbit!

 

that's the only J.R.R Tolkien book I have read actually :wacky:

 

 

 

 

ohh btw!

I know this has nothing to do with this buuut I really need to know the english word for this: http://www.rodinsmarin.se/images/beg/sachsflakbla_3.jpg

A bit?

 

Pardon me while I laugh hysterically for a moment.

 

:laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

 

Ehm. Sorry about that.

 

Yeah, the point where I started wandering around LotR conventions in full costume was beyond obsessed and a long time ago. It's pretty much my favorite thing ever and has been since I was a little kid.

ohh btw!

I know this has nothing to do with this buuut I really need to know the english word for this: http://www.rodinsmarin.se/images/beg/sachsflakbla_3.jpg

 

Wow. I don't know. It's a bike with a cart on front. There might be a special name for that, but I haven't heard it if there is.

haha okaj thanks anyway :wacky:

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG IS THIS TRUE, YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

YA-hooooo!!! The Hobbit was my favorite book, along with the Chronicles Of Narnia as a kid. (I want a new Narnia movie too!!!) THis is such great news. Thanks for posting, Mo!:D:D:D

 

By the way, they should cast Prince in a role...he's like four-foot-nothing, and he wouldn't need any make-up,lol!:laugh3::laugh3:

This is the best news I've had all year!!!! (well, next to my adviser saying 'you've got all your credits and you can graduate')

 

Funnily enough, I was just talking about this with my Mom this morning (literally)...about how we'd refuse to watch The Hobbit if it was produced by anyone besides PJ.

 

Favorite books. And lotr are definitely on my favorite films list.

 

So very, very excited (all over again!)

 

Thanks so much for posting the news, Erin. It's the coolest Christmas present ever. :D

 

:sneaky: Time to revive my account on theonering.net and ringbearer.org (my home long before coldplaying :P)

Official movie blog for The Hobbit: http://www.thehobbitblog.com/

 

:D:D:D

whoooooooooo o.o YAY lotr was awesome. I can't wait to see this one

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm......................this thread appears to be rather Hobbit-forming.:rolleyes:

If I have to be hospitalized for laughing too hard at your puns, I'm sending you the bill.................bo.:P

If I have to be hospitalized for laughing too hard at your puns, I'm sending you the bill.................bo.:P

 

Well that won't get you very far, as I'm a bit "short" at the moment................. :P