[maquiladora]

Good news for Tolkien fans....perhaps.

[maquiladora]

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[DarthVader]

starring Barbra Mikulski as Bilbo Baggens and Helen Thomas as Gollum.

[HairOfTheDog]

Terrific News!

[HairOfTheDog]

Interesting that the story isn't that New Line might still buy the rights, but rather that MGM wants Jackson for an MGM production.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Carville is still free to reprise his role as Gollum...

[Anne of DC]

WOO! WHOO!

Good news for a change! :o)

[ecurbh]

...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."

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[Jalapeno]

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[camle]

I'd LOVE to see Jackson do the hobbit! I've been waiting patiently since LOTR.

the gobblin attack in teh misty mountains and bard's slaying of smaug are two scenes I'd dearly love to see!

[theFIRMbss]

>Good news for Tolkien fans....perhaps

Yeah, because Jackson's
first trilogy didn't suck
enough for real fans,

and his "King Kong" thing
didn't suck enough to end
his career out-right . . .

[diamond6]

Yay!!!

[Thud]

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

[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allowed to post on FR) says the accounting details on the trilogy are keeping them from moving forward so Jackson has withdrawn.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.

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.