Peter Jackson Back to Helm The Hobbit Films
After more or less a year of boycotting New Line Cinema films and a majority of the Time Warner Brothers films, I am so ecstatic to find out that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached an agreement regarding their dispute of an alleged $100M anomaly from The Fellowship of the Ring earnings.
Consequently, Peter Jackson and his creative team will be back to helm The Hobbit and another film of the same ilk.
Rotten Tomatoes has reported that Bob Shaye, New Line Co-Chairman and Co-CEO comments, “We are very pleased we have been able to resolve our differences, and that Peter and Fran will be actively and creatively involved with ‘The Hobbit’ movies. We know they will bring the same passion, care and talent to these films that they so ably accomplished with ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy.”
Elijah Wood, who played Frodo Baggins for the LOTR trilogy agrees, “It’s a great triumph [that Peter is involved.] I think that’s really important that the same team that worked on the [earlier] films [work on “The Hobbit”], the same effects team, that it be shot in New Zealand. I think that it’s important that Ian McKellen is cast as Gandalf, just so that there’s a synergy between the films. I think people want it to exist in the same world. So at least now we are assured that it will be done through that same lens, which is great. It’s exciting.”
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