The Silmarillion definitely wouldn't have any familiar wizards, unless Jackson made a twist on the plot (entirely possible.. parts of the Silmarillion occur in Valinor).. but neither those wizards nor Elrond or Galadriel would play any significant roles in a Silmarillion movie, if it's remotely accurate to the book.

Well Ian Mckellan is defintly sad that Peter Jackson won't be making the hobbit, (for now), and he stated himself on his official website after reading the TORN letter that Jackson was placed in position he can't win.

I lost alot of respect for New Line now, never thought they would sell out to make a cheap movie in one year just so they can keep the rights to themselves, ever heard of SHARING?! You made billions off LOTR, sharing The Hobbit isnt gonna make it worst.

Oh and TORN states that the Saul interview isnt that recent.

http://www.worldofkj.com/news/news.p...rom=&ucat%20=&

I don't discount the possibility of someone other than Peter Jackson doing a good job, although the chances of this happening are quite slim. I doubt many directors are both as talented as Peter Jackson AND have the same love for the source material.

I'm a little confused though. People keep bringing up the Silmarillion. What's the deal here? Are they also talking about making movie(s) form this book as well? There isn't a whole lot of The Hobbit that really is enhanced by elements from the Silmarillion, so I don't really see how they could combine the two.

What the ... I thought Tolkien's son owned The Hobbit's rights and swore he would never sell it to any hollywood pig?

Also, they want to do the Silmarillon now? WHAT.THE.FUCK

They already failed at transcripting anything that was deep about LOTR, and they think they can do the Silmarillon?

Oh well ... what am I thinking. They probably don't give a fuck about doing it right or not, since basically all the persons who posted in this thread are living examples of this COMPLETELY ENIGMATIC MYSTERY that is the international success of those shitass movies.

Fuck you, 21th century.

I can't imagine anyone else directing The Hobbit and have it feel right. Either Jackson directs it, or the film shouldn't even be made. There's just no need to rush it and have a black mark on the franchise ala Matrix sequels.

No, I don't believe that it makes sense that they cut him out...

Actually, the seems a bit ridiculous to me.

The whole aura to the films was because of him. He carried that with him in King Kong (the insane voodoo wielding natives v.s. the orcs in LoTR), and I believe he will carry that with him throughout the rest of his career.

The Hobbit is, however, a bit different than the rest of the books. I suppose it will only depend on what director they get. Someone that's lucky enough to be as successful as Jackson doesn't come around as often as they seem to think, however.

No director, not even a great one, can possible make the Hobbit good enough to measure up the LOTR trilogy, if New Line forces him or her to make one within a year. Period. The fact that the man Jackson is no longer gonna be part of the project, the same man who create the universe, cultures and everything visually and able to piece the story to fit the screen, makes it even worse.

No sane director is gonna even wanna attempt this, sure it pays high, but the consequences could lead to no one hiring him or her ever again if they screw it up royally, and from the looks of the schedule, I think its damn near impossible.

Hell, New Line wont be able to get good directors on board, not with this kinda of scheduling. Let alone getting Jackson back at this point.

Actually, I think that there will be a lot of eager directors standing in line to undertake this project just to get their name out there.

Peter Jackson isn't the only person on the face of this planet that can make a good LoTR prequel.

He just might be the only one that can do it with the LoTR's fan's approval.

What make Jackson's involvement in The Hobbit and that Silmarillion inspired prequel mandatory are not his skills as a director. He is very good, that's for certain, but not the single most talented guy who ever sat in that chair. But without Peter Jackson, there is also no Fran Walsh, no Philippa Boyens and I'm pretty sure no Andy Serkis (along with many other actors) and no Weta either. Preserving continuity with the trilogy in terms of cast, atmosphere and visuals will not be feasible without that team, it is just that simple.

New Line has "blacklisted" Peter Jackson from directing The Hobbit, basically meaning a snowball could make it back from a week-long vacation in hell sooner than he'll be directing a New Line-developed Hobbit.

I like how New Line is being stupid.

Haha man what a joke. I would love it if somehow this blew up in their face.

Some people are just plain greedy.

Seriously did he want a tip too!!

It's not Jackson's fault if the contract he signed with New Line meant he'd get rich like wut.

Anyone who has watched the exteneded DVD extra features (and that term barely works for the hours of footage they put in there) can tell that Jackson went into great detailed with almost every aspect of this impossible film project. There is no one else in the industry so far, from what I can tell, that can top that. You can hear from the interveiws the work,stress and love for the project, you can tell from the numurous commentaries that he cared alot for LOTR. No other main stream movie DVD has shown this kind of Indie style of dedication against all odds to film something that was said to be unfilmable.

Obviously the people at New Line had no idea what everyone has gone through to make the trilogy a reality, all they do is handle all the business and paper work. The only people who have experienced it is Mark Ordesky from New Line, but I doubt he was in the position to sway Bob Shaye, who I initally had respected for when it was he not only funded LOTR, but said it needed to be 3 movies, not 2.

Now all I see is a man who had the success gone to his head, and wouldn't let Jackson who has had 4 hours or less of sleep each night for the pass number of years making LOTR, a cut on some of his dough, which by the way was earned thanks to Jackson, not Shaye. Shayed may have said the word "go", but who ran 10000 miles to the finish line?

This is all just comes down to a typical company having too much success and wants to use LOTR to make more money no matter how badly or rushed the film turns out to be, its alll pre packaged bubble gum products all over again.

I mean guys, remeber Xmen 3? A movie that suffered cause Fox had a pissy fit with Singer and wants to film it now now now, but Singer want to do something else, then they fired him, hired a so so director to rush it out of the door. THIS is the practically the SAME PATH The Hobbit is following. Xmen would have been an awesome trilogy, LOTR had a awesome trilogy, but I don't want to see the prelude to suffer though the same BS.

Can someone else make a good Hobbit movie? Probably. Is there anyone who can make it on par to what Jackson did and be consistent in ONE YEAR? Not very likely.

Jackson is an idiot for wanting more money, in my opinion, the success of the movie isn't exactly thanks to him. He was the reason the movies actually were great, but I dunno, I think people would have seen the flicks if they haven't been directed by Jackson as well.

I can kill NLC executives for allowing someone to produce a LOTR prequel anyway, I mean, what the hell are those ba$tard$ thinking