News on The Hobbit

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This article has the latest news on the on-again-off-again New Line Hobbit project.

Seems Shaye and PJ have been talking quietly, and fences are being mended. PJ won't be directing, but he'll be involved, probably as producer.

Things are looking up!

Comments

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I wasn't knocking him for doing horror movies, I haven't watched any of them - I don't watch horror films - and anyway I knew that was what PJ was (mostly) famous for before LotR too.

I was juding him on Spiderman. While I think he did an adequate job for that style of film I'm having a hard time imagining the realistic rich world of PJ's LotR being echoed in the Hobbit. Though I might be totally wrong because people are always full of surprises.

God I would never want someone like Spielberg or Scott doing it either the styles of films they do are totally different to the world of Middle Earth captured in the trilogy. I haven't spent time thinking of who I'd want, but Sam Raimi, as much as I like the guy and his brother, wasn't the first person who I would've jumped at to be selected for it.