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The Hobbit
After months -- or was it a year? -- of filibustering around a possible The Hobbit movie, Entertainment Weekly has (finally) given an official report on the subject.
In short: Where the hell have they been?
EW Covers the Return to Hobbiton
Yes, tensions between Peter Jackson and Robert Shaye are supposedly cooling, but those of us keeping up with Hobbit have lost faith until any official news. Could be made, won't be made, will be made by Raimi, won't be made by anyone, Jackson onboard, Jackson hates New Line. This is how it goes.
Entertainment Weekly has got the recent fix on the possibility of The Hobbit and it sounds like a bunch of the same gibberish.
But now the legal battle that's kept The Lord of the Rings' prequel, The Hobbit, hung up for years — a bitter feud between Rings director Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema co-chairman Robert Shaye — may finally be nearing resolution. For once, there's reason to be cautiously optimistic. At this writing, no agreements have been announced and details of the negotiations are sketchy (neither New Line nor Jackson's camp would comment to EW on any aspect of this story), but sources close to the talks tell us that they're detecting a lot less frost in the air, and that a deal may be reached that could help usher J.R.R. Tolkien's maiden Middle-earth masterpiece to screens before the end of the decade. ''There has been a détente,'' says one insider. There is now the beginning of a discourse between Peter Jackson and New Line that's running parallel to the litigation proceedings.''
I've already burnt out my excitement on this project, but am ready to get onboard again once we have something official from either Peter Jackson or Bob Shaye -- nobody else.
Stop the shenanigans and wait till we have something more concrete!
Just my two cents. Check out the entire report on The Hobbit at EW.
Add to Heffee!
