P.J. to produce "The Hobbit"

They wont.

can we be sure of that?

No. We'll have to wait on the outcome of this legal hassle. It's all on hold until then.

Might disappear quickly, might drag on for years, might mean it never happens.

That'd suck.

Then again, if it takes a little while, maybe PJ can direct.

well there's no way they'd give up on doing it, they made too much money on LOTR. and because of that they're probably going to do whatever they can to make sure they keep PJ around. if they let him direct that'd be awesome

I hope so. It'd be a piece of cake after LOTR anyway.

Originally posted by Maikahyandowen
well there's no way they'd give up on doing it

If they have a choice.

I REALLY hope this all doesn't happen.

Making "The Hobbit" into a film doesn't seem like a bad idea....but some sort of original "prequel" to LotR set between them? Yeah, bad idea.

Dunno... I'd trust people like Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to pull it off. They did wonders to the LOTR script.

I think we should leave it at Lotr

No way... give us the Hobbit too.

you got star wars what else do you want

All GL is giving us is cartoons now. Maybe PJ can do better.

course he can

Doubts.

oh?

Why?

B/c. they want to create an original story set in Tolkien's world. That spells PHAIL, in my books. No tinkering on the behalf of Peter Jackson (et al.) could make it work.

BTW: Hopefully that part of it won't happen....again, I don't really give if they make "The Hobbit" into a film. But nothing else. PLEASE. If they try to, well, I hope that The Estate goes after them.

I dunno, Tolkien gave them a lot of material to work with, maybe there's enough for them to pull it off

Doubts.
It's also legally dubious. Or else we'd see prequels/sequels to LotR published all the time - in reputable places, at least.