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Oh, Lord! New Snub Distances Jackson from Hobbit
Harsh words uttered by New Line cochairman Bob Shaye in an interview with Sci Fi Wire appear to have all but nixed any chance for Lord of the Rings auteur Peter Jackson to helm the Hobbit trilogy. With a nod to Jackson's lawsuit against New Line, which seeks to sort out a financial anomaly born of an audit of the original LOTR film, Shaye said, "I don't care about Peter Jackson anymore. He wants to have another $100 million or $50 million, whatever he's suing us for. He thinks we owe him something after we've paid him over a quarter of a billion dollars. Cheers, Peter."
In response, says Reuters, Jackson issued a statement saying he only seeks to hold New Line "to its contractual obligations and promises. It is regrettable that Bob has chosen to make it personal."
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Jan 11, 2007 9:41 AM
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Dear Bob Shaye,
Is the following equation something you may understand???
(Hobbit trilogy) - (Peter Jackson) = (no interest)
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Jan 11, 2007 1:29 PM
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First, is it really going to be a trilogy? LOTR was 3 movies' worth and still had stuff left out, but I hope they're not going to stretch out The Hobbit into three movies!
Second, I suck at math but the equasion above, I completely get. I might be tempted to see it once, but won't count on the magic being there w/o Jackson (and Frann Walsh and Philippa Boyens, Richard Taylor, Weta, and the entire team behind LOTR). This also means no Ian McKellan or Ian Holm either I suppose.
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Jan 11, 2007 2:01 PM
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Oh come on, what'a a quarter of a billion among friends? Sorry, nothing makes any sense at all to me in this. I LOVE LOTR, but I can't think in those kind of dollars. It hurts my cerebral cortex.
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Jan 11, 2007 3:52 PM
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Since production companies, in general, have a pretty poor track record in the areas of honesty and integrity regarding paying people what they are, in fact, owed, and since there was, after all, the above-mentioned financial anomaly that turned up in the audit, methinks Bob Shaye is protesting much too much. It strikes the reader as being a tad suspicious.
Also, if Shaye thinks anyone else can make "The Hobbit" live up to the standards of LOTR, he's delusional. Jackson set the bar extremely high.
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Jan 12, 2007 10:00 PM
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