Peter Jackson no longer directing 'The Hobbit'

[Baak]

Good grief...

http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1163993546.html

[The Elfoid_TFS]

I wonder what the 'other prequel' will be? Stinks of money-making-sequel-no-one-really-should-want-to-watch.

I'd also like to see another POV on Middle Earth - PJ's 12 hours of film is enough in a lot of ways. I don't think he could handle another 2 movies nearly as well...but i can't think of anyone better either.

[Baak]

I think his love of the series is what comes through in so much of the movie work - it truly is a case of love first and money second, something which you don't see much in this country.

I heard the "other prequel" spans the time period between The Hobbit and LOTR - I'm not sure if anything was actually written in book form but there may have been something in an epilogue or prologue somewhere in Tolkien's writings. If they had decided to do this I could think of no one better to fill in the gap than PJ and his group.

I hope New Line Cinema doesn't hire some crappy computer graphics group to do it and/or try to emulate the style of LOTR's with a bunch of flash-by-too-fast-to-actually-look-at CGI nonsense. At this point my urge to go see The Hobbit went from a 10 of 10 to around a 1 or 2. Wouldn't it be funny if the folks with the movie rights (not sure who that is? MGM?) say "no" unless PJ is directing.

Ironic - but wholly understandable - that New Line Cinema absolutely did NOT want to do LOTR and it took a huge amount of convincing from Peter Jackson before the project happened. After making truck loads of money from it they now essentially let him go because they wouldn't settle a legitimate lawsuit filed by PJ over accounting issues on profits for Fellowship of the Ring. They basically pulled the sleazy tactic of: if you drop your legitimate lawsuit for a few million dollars we'll hire you again. Seems like a form of blackmail to me and as PJ said in that article, not the way to start a relationship for a project of that scope.

Sad stuff.

[The Elfoid_TFS]

I think his love of the series is what comes through in so much of the movie work - it truly is a case of love first and money second, something which you don't see much in this country.

He's not from your country :P

I heard the "other prequel" spans the time period between The Hobbit and LOTR - I'm not sure if anything was actually written in book form but there may have been something in an epilogue or prologue somewhere in Tolkien's writings. If they had decided to do this I could think of no one better to fill in the gap than PJ and his group.

Stuff was written, but Gandalf and Gollum are the only not-entirely-evil characters to have done much in that time that would be much fun to watch. An 'Adventures of Gandalf' type film is all I can think of - or an Animatrix style mix of mini-films but that sounds somewhat unlikely. Its not like a novel, its just dates and events.

I hope New Line Cinema doesn't hire some crappy computer graphics group to do it and/or try to emulate the style of LOTR's with a bunch of flash-by-too-fast-to-actually-look-at CGI nonsense. At this point my urge to go see The Hobbit went from a 10 of 10 to around a 1 or 2. Wouldn't it be funny if the folks with the movie rights (not sure who that is? MGM?) say "no" unless PJ is directing.

They can make a digital PJ to direct the film!

[Baak]

He's not from your country :P

I know that!

That's part of what I mean - it seems very rare to see that kind of thing except outside this country.

They can make a digital PJ to direct the film!

Somebody's probably working on that right now...

[vinylrake]

I think his love of the series is what comes through in so much of the movie work - it truly is a case of love first and money second, something which you don't see much in this country.

He's not from your country :P

Well from a practical point of view he practically is, because any English speaking country in the world is really nothing more than a satellite of the US at this point in time. Oh sure, you all like to play at disagreeing with the US or our foreign policy, and most Presidents before BushJr would humor you - but when the coming swarms of non-Europeans land on your shores to exterminate you and take back their land, who you gonna call? That's right, you're gonna call the baddest bad asses of ethnic absorbtion and indigenous genocidal history in the world, yep - the U S of A. Say it loud, say it proud.

Stuff was written, but Gandalf and Gollum are the only not-entirely-evil characters to have done much in that time that would be much fun to watch. An 'Adventures of Gandalf' type film is all I can think of - or an Animatrix style mix of mini-films but that sounds somewhat unlikely. Its not like a novel, its just dates and events.

hmmm... Gandalf and Gollum.... a vision is coming to me.... GOT IT! I see a series of movies, or a saturday morning cartoon featuring the madcap adventures of Gandalf and Gollum! Think - the Road movies of Hope and Crosby, or Abbot and Costello... or a funnier medievalish Mel Gibson and Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon style - Gandalf could be about to retire but Gollum keeps getting him involved in one harebrained scheme after another)











ps. for anyone not familiar with my POV, certain parts (PARTS, not the whole thing) of this note are written for humorous intent from a point of view which does not necessarily reflect my actual beliefs or those of my stockholders or of VinylRake ltd. doh.