First Hobbit Movie Pushed Back To 2012???
Published by Seth Quillen in: Film -- Date: 22 Jan 2010 Comments: 1
Please say it’s not so, please Peter Jackson come out and debunk the news that the first Hobbit movie has been pushed back to the 4th quarter of 2012. We need to see the Hobbit before the end of the Mayan calender.
According to an a Variety interview with President Toby Emmerich he cant say exactly when the 2 Hobbit films will be released but 2011 is not looking good. There have been a lot of changes at New Line since founder Bob Shaye was ousted and it appears that The Hobbit is not free of the mix up.
Below is the Variety breakdown of the happenings over at New Line, including The Hobbit movies.
For 2011, New Line will likely include more horror films in the mix, with “Friday the 13th,” “Orphanage” and “The Rite.” It’s also got two comedies — “Horrible Bosses” and “Valentine’s Day” spinoff “New Year’s Eve” — along with a “Journey to the Center of the Earth” sequel and a musical, “Rock of Ages.”
And then there’s “The Hobbit.” Emmerich’s on familiar turf when it comes to the two-pic project thanks to his extensive involvement with the “Rings” trilogy and the presence of producer-director-screenwriter Peter Jackson on all five films.
Emmerich was promoted to head of production at the point in 2001 when the first cut of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King” was prepped for post-production, and he oversaw the pic’s reshoots.
“It’s similar, though this is more expensive and much more of a known entity,” says Emmerich of the “LOTR” ramp-up vs. the advance work being done on “The Hobbit.”
JRR Tolkien’s novel is set 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” with Bilbo Baggins as its unassuming hero in an adventure that centers on his acquiring from the evil Gollum the all-powerful ring that figures into “LOTR.” A few “Rings” cast members, such as Andy Serkis and Ian McKellen, will make return appearances in “The Hobbit.”
New Line’s “LOTR” financing scheme, in which foreign presales provided much of the budget for the trilogy, is not how “Hobbit” is being bankrolled. Instead, New Line shares financing rights with MGM/UA, which bought the original rights in 1969; the complication this time around is that the Lion could conceivably sell those rights as part of MGM’s restructuring.
Once the script for the second film is in — Jackson and his longtime collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are working on it with Del Toro — New Line will work up a budget for both films and start casting. New Line exec Michael Disco, who was once Emmerich’s assistant, will oversee for the studio.
Horn won’t predict when the first of the two “Hobbit” films will be out, but says the most probable scenario would be a release in the fourth quarter of 2012.
“It’s a big bet for us. But it’s one we think will pay off given the success of ‘Lord of the Rings,’” says Emmerich. “This is one of the few movies it feels like people are waiting for.”
Source: Variety
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