Peter Jackson's The Hobbit will be released in two installments. But could there be a third?
PETER JACKSON: Well, it’s very, very premature. We have got incredible source material with the appendices. There’s the novel, but then we also have the rights to use the 125 pages of additional notes where Tolkien expanded the world of The Hobbit. We’ve used some of that so far, and just in the last few weeks, as we’ve been wrapping up the shooting and thinking about the shape of the story, Philippa [Boyens], Fran [Walsh] and I have been talking to the studio about other things that we haven’t been able to shoot and seeing if we could possibly persuade them to do a few more weeks of shooting. We’d probably need more than a few weeks, actually, next year. The discussions are pretty early, so there isn’t anything to report, but there are other parts of the story that we’d like to tell, that we haven’t had the chance to tell yet. We’re just trying to have those conversations with the studio, at the moment.
Yay!
Awesome. I thought the LOTR movies were very well done (although Return of the King got a little too much into the CGI), even if not true to the books. If he can repeat that with The Hobbit, yay!
When is someone going to make a picture based on E.R. Eddison’s Zimamvia trilogy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_R%C3%BCcker_Eddison
If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s a much better story than Tolkien’s.
Oh, gonna play that game? Well then: when will Jack Vance’s “Dying Earth” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dying_Earth) books make it to the screen?
(Although I cringe a bit when I write that, knowing that the rules governing contemporary Hollywood guarantee that any “Dying Earth” movie that might possibly get made in 2012 would be completely free of irony, sarcasm, and stilted dialogue…and would, thereby, totally suck.)
i just hope he tones-down the wide-eyed, while-the-music’s-swelling, weeping.
all the Hobbits in LOTR seemed like they were perpetually on the verge of an emotional breakdown.