Hobbit delayed by a year?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/3861879.cms

Credit Crunch?? Waiting till the 3D technology is up to scratch (if the rumours are correct)? PJ et al too busy on other stuff? Creative differences??

Or finally realising that they are doing the thing back to front and are hog-tied by the parameters of the LOTR films and having to get actors to play younger or unchanged from how they were over a decade ago? Or that however much they think they write better than Tolkien that it isn't going to be so easy to cobble together a second film especially given the limitations already mentioned ?
As the Irish say when giving directions "If I were going there, I wouldn't start from here" .

Was that lawsuit finally settled?