Inching closer to The Hobbit film

[William Cloud Hicklin]

This is, however, the average reader of Entertainment Weekly, not Philosophical Quarterly

You gotta love this: "The Rings books were too expansive for me to get into but the movies are a work of art."

BTW, Aiwendil, that's not much a refutation, since the poster apparently detects no difference in style between Hobbit and LR! (and calls it a 'prequel.' Gaaaah.....)

[Sauron the White]

And even if William is correct making that statement while looking down his nose at the great unwashed , there are a whole lot more people who buy and read EW than PhQ. The movie business is about selling tickets to the masses. That is the way of the world - like it or not. I am certain that right now in the offices of New Line they have people reading the EW feedback postings and keeping track of how public opinion is going. They may be crooks and they may be greedy crooks, but they can count.

[Aiwendil]

BTW, Aiwendil, that's not much a refutation, since the poster apparently detects no difference in style between Hobbit and LR! (and calls it a 'prequel.' Gaaaah.....)

I don't know, the poster makes a pretty well-reasoned case with: "Duh! Dumbest statement I've heard in a long time."

Quod erat demonstrandum.

[Meriadoc1961]

I am looking forward to it, regardless of who makes it. Although I have offered my share of criticism, I still believe Jackson could and would do a good job with it.

Merry

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Of course Bob Shaye can count. And if his beancounters tell him that PJ directing "Gandalf versus Godzilla" will put butts in the seats, he'll be on it like flies on roadkill.

A match made in Hell- the producer of Nightmare on Elm Street and the director of Brain Dead.

[Sauron the White]

A match made in Hell- the producer of Nightmare on Elm Street and the director of Brain Dead.

That particular neighborhood of Hell certainly must produce some tremendous pairings for this one netted $4 billion dollars US, 17 Academy Awards including Best Film, numerous other industry awards including a spot on the American Film Institute top fifty films of all time, and nearly unanimous professional critical reviews.

If that was a union or match made in Hell, please put me down for the next pick of that litter.

[Meriadoc1961]

"I'll say it again: There's way too much money to be made on a Hobbit film for it not to happen. It won't be here before 2010 (and even that's probably an early estimate), but it will come. And PJ will be at the helm."

E and E, I am not saying I disagree with you completely, but sometimes some individuals have enough money not to want to to do something again, even when they were successful together previously. The Beatles come to my mind. They were thrown all around all kinds of offers, even as much as $1,000,000 US for a single reunion concert, and it never materialized.

Still, I hope you are right.

Merry

[Sauron the White]

This just in from MTV's Movie Blog

Still buzzing from the advance buzz of “The Golden Compass” at New Line’s 40th anniversary gala in New York on Friday night, New Line’s co-chairmen and co-CEO’s Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne were in great spirits — so we figured they wouldn’t mind a little “Hobbit” question. After all, “Golden Compass” features a mini “Lord of the Rings” reunion of sorts, with Ian McKellan (who of course played Gandalf) voicing the panserbjørne Iorek Byrnison, and Christopher Lee (who played the traitor wizard Saruman) making a cameo in the Magisterium (The voice you hear in the trailer is pre-McKellan, with a different voice actor).

So could a bigger “Lord of the Rings” reunion be in the making, as a “cautiously optimistic” Entertainment Weekly reports, possibly with Peter Jackson as the executive producer and someone else directing “The Hobbit”? (Hear what we learned after the jump.)

Neither New Line nor Jackson’s camp would give comment to the magazine, but Shaye and Lynne, as much as they tried to dodge it, did give comment to us. “One film at a time!” Shaye laughed. “‘The Hobbit’ is in the future,” Lynne said, somewhat mysteriously. Does that mean there’s hope? “There’s more than hope,” Lynne said with a wink, as he walked away. So no details yet, but plans are definitely underway.