A poll for you LOTR fans out there...

If Lucal can do a "prequel" to the Star Wars films, do you think Peter Jackson should attempt the prequel to the LOTR trilogy - The Hobbit?

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Channel-surfing, I found the E! post-game show, and reporters were asking him about it. He said, very straightforwardly, he wants to do it. New Line has the rights to the story, and MGM (? or another big studio) has the distribution network they need. He said the next two years or so he belongs to King Kong, so he expects the studio lawyers on each side to hash an agreement out during that time so he can go straight to the Hobbit after Kong.

Big ape, tall building, screaming humanwomanmonkeyloveintyerest...

I don't think it will fly to well, frankly.

They should just leave " The Hobbit " up to imaginations of the readers .

All of the LOTR fans are bound to see it, and I'm guessing the all the Oscars last night are bound to make lots of the nay-sayers who didn't see LOTR curious enough to check it out.

He should remake the first couple of Star Wars prequels.

:)

Ian McKellan and Ian Holm would have to reprise their roles--no other actors would be accepted. There's a lot of traveling in the Hobbit, are these guys up to it?

Serkis would come back, I'm sure.

Holm no. Bilbo was much younger in the Hobbit than LOTR. I think they can find a younger Bilbo.

I agree with McKellan - since Gandalf seems kind of ageless (or very slow to age anyway)

well, rushed, I guess. I loved the book. I think it would do well as a movie. Maybe I should go back and reread the last few chapters.

The Silmarillion.

I had a hard time getting through that

As a honorary member of the Noldorian Taliban I say let it be! Yeah, it was a good movie but it was not LOTR. Faithful translation of literature to the screen is a very tricky buisness, seldom successful. The Fellowship was tolerable, although lack of the Old Forest/Tom Bombodil/Barrow Downs sequence was disappointing and Arwen as magic warrior absurd. My hopes were dashed with Two Towers, elves at Hornburg, wtf? Some characters were way over the top(Denethor) or out of character(Theoden, Farimir). The absurdly large Oliphants and ridiculous Battle at the Black Gate got on my nerves in the Return as did lack of the scourging of the Shire. Plenty other points to piss me off, but you get the drift. Perhaps if I hadn't read LOTR at least 20 times I wouldn't feel like this..................
Like I said, books don't fare well as movies. Concider Dune, loved the books & I really like David Lynch but the movie sent me out of the theatre pissed. A good SF movie, it just wasn't Dune. The SF Channel version was much better, even lacking big budget fx.