Jackson Puts Record Straight About Hobbit Movies
Written by Ian Cullen on December 9, 2009 – 9:00 am -
Producer Peter Jackson has recently cleared up many of the rumours concerning the two Hobbit movies, which he is attached to as producer.
While speaking at a press conference to SciFiWire and other assembled members of the press the producer revealed that both films will be based solely on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Even though director Guillermo del Toro had suggested that the second movie would be specifically designed to bridge the gap between Hobbit and Fellowship Of The Ring.
“The second Hobbit script is still based on the Hobbit novel,” Jackson said in a group interview Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif., after a press conference for The Lovely Bones. “The Hobbit novel is in two parts.”
The Hobbit centres on the adventures of Bilbo Bobbins and reveals how the young hobbit came upon the ring while on a quest for the treasure, which is guarded by the dragon Smaug. Though considered a children’s book. The Hobbit is the story in which Tolkien established Middle Earth and provided the premise for the Lord Of The Rings book trilogy.
Whereas each of the Lord of the Rings films was based on a separate book, screenwriters Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens (with del Toro) have found a middle point where they could end
The Hobbit: Part 1 and begin The Hobbit: Part 2. “Yeah, yeah, we have, but you’ll have to wait and see the film to find out,” Jackson teased. The first Hobbit movie is due in theaters in 2011, with part two following in 2012.
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Tags: Guillermo del Toro, J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit
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