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Re: Peter Jackson May Direct A Third Hobbit Movie

Filmstalker — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:59:54 -0000

Wasn't this the original rumour that there would be three films and they would make one up out of the short stories, poems and notes that Tolkien made about other ideas for the characters and for Middle Earth?

That was totally debunked by Jackson when he said they were adapting the book and the book alone and splitting it into two films.

I think this is total rumour and, as Matt says, is probably taken right out of context from an offhand comment, or pulled from the original rumour about three films.

Re: Peter Jackson May Direct A Third Hobbit Movie

Matt_Bitz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:34:46 -0000

Hate to break this to everyone out there, but the world does not need three Hobbit films. We just don't. I'm a huge LOTR fan, (I camped out on the mountain where the Meduseld set was built, for criminy's sake) but this is too much even for me. We have three great films from terrific source material, a source that is EPIC. The Hobbit is not epic in the scope of LOTR and shouldn't be tweaked and prodded and padded to be something that its not. I liked the concept of two films that bridged the gap between the stories, but three will just be fluff. There just ain't enough stuff in the appendices folks, sorry. If Hollywood or PJ or GdT want lots more epic source material...oh gee, I dunno, maybe THE SILMA-FREAKIN'-RILLION ? THATS the epic one.

Re: Peter Jackson May Direct A Third Hobbit Movie

JT — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:14:52 -0000

I hadn't seen the MTV interview but I'm very skeptical too. Of course MTV's interviews are sometimes older (even if it was just posted 2 days ago) and it could well be that in the interim they somehow acquired the rights.

The MTV interview would at least seem to confirm there was some interest on the part of Jackson.

Re: Peter Jackson May Direct A Third Hobbit Movie

Larry — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:41 -0000

Cant say I buy this either, although I would love for it to be true, I just don't think it is going to happen.

Re: Peter Jackson May Direct A Third Hobbit Movie

garfieldhatesmondays — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:55:07 -0000

I'm not sure I buy it. a couple days ago mtv posted an interview with jackson saying that he would love to do a third "bridge" movie, but that the studio only had the rights to two more movies so a third is out of the question. he said the original plan was to stuff the hobbit into one and then make the second the bridge movie but they ended up with too much stuff for just one hobbit movie so they expanded it into two and abandoned plans for the bridge movie.