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PostPosted: November 20th, 2006, 2:59 pm 
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I've just heard (and I'll try and find a link) that New Line cinema have told Peter Jackson they will not be requiring him to make the 2-part movie version of the Hobbit, that is currently being planned. PJ has issued a statment saying this is correct, stating the fans deserve to know the truth, that he will not be diretcing the films.

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Wow! That's much information for me! I didn't know it was ever planned to be a 2-part movie version! And I didn't know they already started to plan it! And whom else do they want to direct it if not PJ?

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He wrote a letter to OneRing.net.

Here's the link: http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1163993546.html

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^ Yep, that's the link I was after.

The news is just terrible, and my only hope is - and it isn't much of a hope - is the stir this will cause may entice New Line to reconsider. PJ and his crew not taking the helm of the Hobbit is one of the things that could happen to the production.

My other concern is will the cast of LOTR, whose characters appear in the Hobbit, still be playing those roles? Will Ian Mckellen (who has said he would like to play Gandalf again) be considered or will he himelf refuse to play Gandalf because his friends and co-workers will not be there with him?

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I've just spent the past half hour on TORn chat, discussing it. This is pretty crushing. :(

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So does this mean it is not going to happen at all?

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Well, look at TORn again (I guess I'm their unofficial AU advocate :P). There's a new report that MGM sent out- evidently the matter of PJ directing the Hobbit is "far from closed." Also, Weta says they still want to do the movie. I just don't want to see it without PJ.

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I hope that all of the cast refuses until P.J. decided to direct it. Since if P.J. doesn't direct it.... I probably WON'T watch it.

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Well, look at TORn again (I guess I'm their unofficial AU advocate :P). There's a new report that MGM sent out- evidently the matter of PJ directing the Hobbit is "far from closed." Also, Weta says they still want to do the movie. I just don't want to see it without PJ.


Yeah I seen that too. Hopefully MGM will put there foot down and push for this issue to be resolved. We can't have the Hobbit made by anyone other than PJ. It just wouldn't be right.

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oh i agree! but i heard he was fired, but i must have heard wrong (and also they said they were going to try to make a Simarillian movie too. wrong?). but it wouldn't be the same if PJ didn't direst it and it was made by totally different people and if Gandalf was played by someone other than Ian McKellen, he wouldn't be the same :closedeyes: ! and Bilbo wouldn't be the same, but do you think bilbo would be played by Ian Holm? becuase he's probably too old or something...

yes i probably wouldn't even watch it

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PostPosted: November 22nd, 2006, 5:42 pm 
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They're just lost a customer. Me. I read in a newspaper article today that P.J. is officially NOT doing the Hobbit, but New Line still is. But no P.J..... I wonder if they're hire different actors! Is so, then they have just lost a customer..... :(:(:(:(:(

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they've prolly just lost a LOT of customers.....:closedeyes:

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The One Ring has done it again.
Let your voices be heard: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1164129588

Ian McKellen reacts to the news:
http://www.mckellen.com/epost/lotr/061122.htm

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Peter Jackson has to make The Hobbit! He has to!!!

This is going to be worked out...I cannot imagine any other director making it.

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Some more news via TORN.net

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1164265935

Also there's this:
http://www.petitiononline.com/hobfilm/petition.html

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PostPosted: November 23rd, 2006, 9:41 pm 
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Lady of Taniquetil wrote:
they've prolly just lost a LOT of customers.....:closedeyes:


Yea. :closedeyes: This really is a bad thing. I wish it didn't have to happen... :annoyed2:

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