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Jackson and Hobbits to Quest and Save Hollywood Yet Again?
Variety/Comingsoon ^ | Nov 14th 2006

Posted on 11/15/2006 10:09:15 AM PST by maquiladora

Variety reports that MGM chairman and chief executive Harry Sloan talked about the studio's five core franchises at the European Media Leaders Summit in London.

As for The Hobbit, Sloan confirmed that MGM was in advanced talks with Peter Jackson to make two movies based on JRR Tolkien's "prequel" to "The Lord of the Rings."

The first would be a direct adaptation of The Hobbit, and the second would be drawn from "footnotes and source material connecting 'The Hobbit' with 'Lord of the Rings,'" he explained.

An MGM spokesman emphasized that negotiations with Jackson are still in progress, and that production isn't likely until 2008 or even 2009.

(Excerpt) Read more at comingsoon.net ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies; The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: hobbit; tolkien
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To: ecurbh

Thanks for the ping. I was just wondering about progress on this a few days ago.


41 posted on 11/15/2006 12:07:44 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: camle; Ramius; ecurbh; All

Suppose it's too early to start looking for spoiler spy pics at TORN :~)


42 posted on 11/15/2006 12:12:49 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: maquiladora

Yay!!!


43 posted on 11/15/2006 12:16:10 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I hear that Smaug dies on a big spikey wheel.


44 posted on 11/15/2006 12:18:54 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Ramius

45 posted on 11/15/2006 12:21:15 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Vey cool! Thanks for the ping.


46 posted on 11/15/2006 12:41:37 PM PST by Peanut Gallery
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To: RosieCotton

Hi Rosie!

I've missed you guys too.

How's everything?


47 posted on 11/15/2006 2:02:57 PM PST by ksen ("For an omniscient and omnipotent God, there are no Plan B's" - Frumanchu)
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To: Pyro7480
> ...I thought the first movie was a good adaptation of the Fellowship, but The Two Towers was really hit and miss...

I kinda-sorta
liked Fellowship. (Mostly Cate.)
The rest made me cringe.

48 posted on 11/15/2006 2:11:33 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: maquiladora

I suspect they were motivated by Peter Jackson's purchase of the rights to Naomi Novik's "His Majesty's Dragon" series. He would make a dragon movie using a book the Tolkien group had rights to, or one that he had rights to, and they needed to decide which one fast.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30014


50 posted on 11/15/2006 2:38:13 PM PST by Thud
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To: DaveLoneRanger
Only if they do the same to him special-effects wise as they did to Gollum!
51 posted on 11/15/2006 8:53:05 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: Pyro7480; theFIRMbss

Wholeheartedly agree.


52 posted on 11/15/2006 10:13:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, November 13, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ecurbh

bump


53 posted on 11/16/2006 4:43:26 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Pyro7480

I really didn't like what they did to Faramir. Apparently, from what was said in some of the "making of" documentaries, they felt that his character needed to seen to grow, so they didn't like that he was so good to begin with and they made him weaker.

I fail to see why that was at *all* necessary.


54 posted on 11/16/2006 7:47:51 AM PST by RosieCotton (NaNoWriMo: 26403/50,000)
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To: Ramius

Oh, geesh...talk about flashbacks!


55 posted on 11/16/2006 7:48:13 AM PST by RosieCotton (NaNoWriMo: 26403/50,000)
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To: RosieCotton; Pyro7480

JRR Tolkien said in an interview (I read it long ago, couldn't give you the source) that Faramir was the character most like him. I didn't like the film actor much either. In the book Faramir resembles Aragoron more. He's a Ranger not the wimpy sniveling whiney interpretation Peter Jackson went with.


56 posted on 11/18/2006 7:49:49 PM PST by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Rameumptom; RosieCotton; Pyro7480

Aragoron = Aragorn




Sheesh, sorry


57 posted on 11/18/2006 7:50:57 PM PST by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: maquiladora; HairOfTheDog

Article today in the NZ Herald (not allowed to post on FR) says the accounting details on the trilogy are keeping them from moving forward so Jackson has withdrawn. Info is also posted as a letter from Jackson on the theonering.net.

NZ Herald link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=100&objectid=10411754

So, as usual, follow the money or the funny accounting methods of the film industry. Too bad since Jackson made New Line a pot of money and could have done it again, had they treated him fairly.


58 posted on 11/20/2006 9:27:49 PM PST by T-Bird45
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To: T-Bird45; ecurbh

That's big news.

ecurbh ping.


59 posted on 11/20/2006 9:30:59 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: T-Bird45; 2Jedismom; 300winmag; Alkhin; Alouette; ambrose; Anitius Severinus Boethius; ...
Some significant news posted by T-Bird45:
Article today in the NZ Herald (not allowed to post on FR) says the accounting details on the trilogy are keeping them from moving forward so Jackson has withdrawn. Info is also posted as a letter from Jackson on the theonering.net.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=100&objectid=10411754

TheOneRing.net - Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh Talk THE HOBBIT


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60 posted on 11/20/2006 9:37:41 PM PST by ecurbh (Rudy in 2008)
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