Rumor is that Peter Jackson is in negotiations to direct The Hobbit, now that Guillermo Del Toro has pulled out and they haven’t been able to find a suitable/willing replacement. With all the financial/development troubles with MGM, there’s no definite release date in sight.
What do you guys think of Peter Jackson returning to direct the 2 part prequel movies?
- Dennis
Both of you are correct in what you said. Peter Jackson created the main LOTR story, so why not the begining? I'm thinking the whole Del Toro thing was a stunt to create buzz and friction to eventually get Jackson to do the project; since initially he said in the commentaries of the LOTR DVD that he would "never invest so much of his soul into another project this size"…or something to that effect.
for real two movies? that is really my only problem, although im not a Peter Jackson fan per se, i agree with keeping the esthetic. i've had it with this two movie nonsense, it destroyed the last Harry Potter movie making me question whether the last two movies will even be worth seeing, The Hobbit is not a long story just how much of these directors simply masturbating their egos *cough* George Lucus do we really need to be partied to. just make A good movie already.
The film is being split into two because of some of the backstory pulled from LOTR appendices which fill in some of the timeline in The Hobbit. I actually think even without those additions the film would have to be done either a a 3+ hour single film or split into two with the first film ending just as Bilbo meets up with Gollum.
The second film would end up Bilbo encountering Smaug and the Battle of the Five Armies.
I agree it would be long, but even as a fan those appendices are tedious and the average person/ fan doesn't care they just want to see the Hobbits go on a mission and slay a dragon. making a bigger deal of Bilbo meeting Gollum in the movie than it is in the original Hobbit novel doesn't make sense to me. they could make 100 movies with his extensive appendix from LOTR.
I think the Del Toro choice in the start wasn't a stunt. If it was then Del Toro pretty much wasted two years of his life doing nothing when he could've been working on some of his man dream projects like his take on Frankenstein, At the Mountains of Madness, third leg of his Spanish Civil War-based films and several others.
I do think that one reason why Jackson decided against directing The Hobbit initially is the fact that he wanted to step away from super-large productions. He's spoken many times since last years Comic-Con how District 9 made him want to go back to smaller productions. There was less stress and he could do what he wanted instead of catering to studios and fans.
If he is negotiating to get on the director's chair of the two Hobbit films then he's got all the leverage. He knows this and so does MGM, New Line and Warner Brothers. I wouldn't be surprised if Jackson's deal to direct these two films end up being one of the largest, if not the largest, deal for a director. He already had that for doing King Kong for Universal.
But all this is a moot point if MGM can't get it's 4 billion dollar debt to its creditors worked out.
All you guys are a bunch of frickin morons,You have absolutely no clue what really good movie making is about,go back to your Blair Witch Projects,or Fargo, you stupid ignorant people,If you cannot for one minute appreciate the special effects and the movie storyline,then go read your sad ass Transformer comics, You are also the same stupid people that probably liked "Scumdog Millionaire" or that moronic "No Country for Old Men. To put it bluntly YOU ALL SUCK!! Transformers-Dark of the Moon was better than the first 2,