Tolkien Enterprises To Film Hobbit With Jackson?

cyclomedia writes "TheOneRing.Net has a new scoop on the ongoing Hobbit Movie saga, sourced from elbenwald.de. Apparently the rights to make the Hobbit film fall back to Saul Zaentz 'next year.' He claims that, under their stewardship, The Hobbit will 'definitely be shot by Peter Jackson.' For the whippersnappers amongst you: Mr. Zaentz is the head honcho of Tolkien Enterprises, which originally acquired exclusive rights to productions of the LOTR and Hobbit material in 1976, prior to overseeing the Bakshi animated version of LOTR."

Tolkein?

[pugdk]

Who is this Tolkein you are talking about?

Re:Tolkein?

[BeeBeard]

Don't you mean "Who are you Tolkien about?" :)

New scoops coming soon

[Rastignac]

Peter Jackson will write a book "If I Did It". He will also sing a reggae song "I shot the Hobbit" (featuring Gollum as a CGI Bob Marley).

I just wanna know...

[cronot]

... what all these guys have against the Hobbit? I mean, this Saul guy is hiring that thug Peter to have the Hobbit shot... That Hobbit should have banged his wife or something...

Glamdring et. al.

[Lissajous]

May I be the first to suggest that the props team make all the weaponry from Damascus steel http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/1 6/2348254 [slashdot.org]. That way they can join in the rest of us with the huge collective "w00tz" at this news!

Re:New scoops coming soon

[BeeBeard]

"No precioussssss I did not shoot stupid, fat deputy!"

I'd buy it!

Tolkein effort.

[91degrees]

They keep getting the same guy to direct. It's like a bad hobbit. Hope his elf holds up.

Stewardship

[camperdave]

Well, if there's anything Return of the King taught us, it's the value of a good Steward.

Re:Tolkein?

[Marwood]

Last night I dreamt I'd written Lord of the Rings, when I woke up it turns out that I'd just been Tolkien in my sleep.

Re:Tolkein?

[Anonymous Coward]

Allow me to take one step lower.... Whatcha Tolkien 'bout Willis?

Re:Does this explain New Line's decision?

[Dunbal]

"Let's be really nice to him so he'll keep making these financially successful films for us."

      But, but, after you account for all the 5 star hotels, first class air tickets, german cars, party girls and cocaine, the film actually lost money! "What - you mean we have to buy our OWN coke?" - A random New Line executive

I dunno....

[srhoades]

Tolkien, Hobbits, Elf's??? All of this sounds as if it has a bad ring to it.

LOTR - The Very Expurgated Version

[pvjr]

Just Me, My Elf, And Eye.

Re:Hooray!

[1u3hr]

Why is this a troll?

No, looks more like an orc.

Re:Does this explain New Line's decision?

[kimvette]

Were you expecting them to be nice people?

They tell us all the time that they are nice, and that they are striving hard to protect the starving artists who put in a ton of work to produce these films. Are you implying that this is not true and that the MPAA is not made up of nice people? OH NOES tell me it ain't so!!! I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that you would make such allegations! ;)

Re:Tolkein?

[Anonymous Coward]

I ain't goin on no elf boat, sucka!

Samuel L. ?

[Raynach]

Was I the only person to think they were talking about Samuel L. Jackson?

"I'm sick of these mother fuckin' hobbits in this mother fuckin' shire!"

Re:Hooray!

[tehcyder]

Film is Film, TV is TV, Books are Books, Opera is Opera, etc etc.

Typical geek, bringing a web browser into an artistic discussion.