PJ wants to do The Hobbit {seriously} - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lobelia · 05-01-2004, 09:51 PM

Without going into the rights and wrongs of doing a Hobbit movie - I have mixed feelings on the issue, though I would be very sorry if I'd never seen the LOTR movies - I thought I'd mention I was at a con yesterday where one of the guests, a compositor who worked at Weta on ROTK, seemed confident the Hobbit movie would go ahead, probably after KING KONG. He said New Line has the film rights and - was it MGM, I forget? - has the distribution rights. There is too much money here, he said, for it not to happen.

All I can hope is that if it does go ahead, as seems likely, Christopher T will soften enough that he can actually be consulted over the thing and it would be more likely to be something his father wouldn't have minded. Unlikely, but you never know.

05-01-2004, 09:51 PM	#11
Lobelia Wight Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 150	Without going into the rights and wrongs of doing a Hobbit movie - I have mixed feelings on the issue, though I would be very sorry if I'd never seen the LOTR movies - I thought I'd mention I was at a con yesterday where one of the guests, a compositor who worked at Weta on ROTK, seemed confident the Hobbit movie would go ahead, probably after KING KONG. He said New Line has the film rights and - was it MGM, I forget? - has the distribution rights. There is too much money here, he said, for it not to happen. All I can hope is that if it does go ahead, as seems likely, Christopher T will soften enough that he can actually be consulted over the thing and it would be more likely to be something his father wouldn't have minded. Unlikely, but you never know.