Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Say it ain't so

Apparently New Line Cinema has been involved in a dispute with Peter Jackson and has told "him that the company 'would no longer be requiring [his] services on The Hobbit and the prequel'." I'm not sure what the prequel is unless they mean a film adaptation of the Silmarillion (an interesting venture...)

New Line Cinema, with whom he has been in dispute about income from the first Rings film, was not using him, [Peter Jackson] said.

Jackson had refused to discuss a Hobbit film until the case was settled but New Line said it now wanted to move on as it had "limited time" to make the film.

You can read the entire BBC article here.

Sure, I had a few problems with some decisions Jackson made in the adaptations of LotR, but overall they were fantastic. I hope the management responsible for this decision at New Line realizes what they are doing and doesn't screw up production...

~Matt :(

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"A room without books is as a body without a soul." -Cicero

2 comments:

kate said...

Initially, I thought this was a rash decision on the part of New Line Cinema; however, from an economical view, New Line is on steady ground. The franchise is well enough established that as long as a production is Tolkein, it will sell the tickets--regardless of the director. And we all know that Hollywood is, unfortunately, ruled by economics.

Matt said...

Unfortunately I think that in the grand scheme of things you may be right. But I think it will hurt them somewhat.

Here is another perspective as well. ;-)