Wednesday, March 16, 2005
-Oscar winning director Peter Jackson says it will be at least three years before he shoots The Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. Jackson is currently filming King Kong in Auckland, Australia. While stopping by Sydney's Powerhouse Museum to check out the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) exhibition the director was asked how long it would be before he started production on The Hobbit. "Three or four years would be accurate, I would say," Jackson replied.-
I think that's so awesome. I know so many fans of the movies who didn't even realize that it was ever even a book that would love to see this movie, not to mention all of the life-long admirers of the original works. I can still remember catching the old Rankin-Bass animated version on television every once in a while. Considering what he accomplished with the main trilogy, I can't wait to see how Jackson handles the prologue. Sure, he wasn't completely faithful to the books, but he still told one heck of a story. Maybe if that works out all right he can do a movie version of the prequel, The Silmarillian. That would be a first for that story and would excite my friend Keith to no end. I'll have to stop thinking about it now or it'll seem like forever until it gets here.
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