{"id":751,"date":"2006-11-20T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2006-11-20T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T14:41:37","slug":"an_announcement_from_peter_jac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/20\/an_announcement_from_peter_jac\/","title":{"rendered":"An Announcement from Peter Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad news for Tolkien fans: Peter Jackson won’t be making a live-action film version of The Hobbit<\/i> after all. Following the stunning financial and artistic success of his Lord of the Rings<\/i> films, I think everyone just assumed that any further cinematic adventures in Middle-Earth would naturally be Jackson’s babies as well. Now, however, New Line Cinema has decided to look for another director to do the Hobbit<\/i> film and possibly a second LOTR prequel as well (whatever that may be). The breaking point, not surprisingly, was over money, specifically a lawsuit Jackson’s company brought against New Line concerning the profits from The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i>. (Basically, Jackson feels he didn’t get what he was owed due to some dicey and\/or shady accounting practices on the part of New Line.) New Line apparently hoped it could bluff him into dropping the suit, using The Hobbit<\/i> as its bet. Jackson called the studio’s hand, the film deal is off, and the lawsuit continues. You can read Jackson’s complete statement on this matter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not exactly a Peter Jackson partisan and I know this sort of thing happens all the time in Hollywood, but it would have been lovely, if a Hobbit<\/i> film was inevitable, to have it blend seamlessly with the existing LOTR films. That’s still a possibility, but I think the odds of it happening have just gotten much, much longer. More likely we’re going to have a version of The Hobbit<\/i> that complements Jackon’s trilogy about as well as that bombastic MTV schlock-o-rama version of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned<\/i> fits with Neil Jordan’s elegant adapation of Interview with the Vampire<\/i>. C’est la vie, I suppose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bad news for Tolkien fans: Peter Jackson won’t be making a live-action film version of The Hobbit after all. Following the stunning financial and artistic success of his Lord of the Rings films, I think everyone just assumed that any further cinematic adventures in Middle-Earth would naturally be Jackson’s babies as well. Now, however, New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}