A piece by Eric Snider details how MGM’s financial woes are delaying the production of the Peter Jackson produced Benicio Del Toro directed Hobbit movie. Jackson wrote the script and commented during the Lovely Bones release interviews it was finished. Fans await casting for Bilbo.

The London (UK) Telegraph interview Sir Peter Jackson, The New Zealand MFP. With a wealth of about $450 personal millions, Jackson has been busy. He says he may stop by the Hobbit to throw his hand in. He’s been making his Lovely Bones, to varied reviews. Jackson says he turned down having the nearby Wellington airport named after him, for fear his children would be traumatized walking through an airport named for their father.

Who would make the better Hobbit? Rumors for Bilbo casting have incldued Daniel Radcliffe, David Tennant, Tobey Maguire, and James MacEvoy. Each actor already belongs to a franchise: Dr. Who, Spider Man, Harry Potter, or Narnia’s Mr. Tumnus?

Gamers anxiously await Aragorn’s Quest, the big new game release. Users can take part in some of Aragorn’s greatest quests from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy of films. Playing first person archer as Aragorn, users will wield a sword, shield, bow and spear in the battlefield. of course, Aragorn as the future king will lead armies through Middle-earth.

Rumors, denials and heated counter denials have surrounded Hollywood the past few weeks, hobbit style. Informers and insiders have been trying to pin down who has been cast as Hobbit thief and dragon wrangler Bilbo in Sir Peter Jackson’s the Hobbit duo of new LOTR films. Jackson is casting the Hobbit now after completing the Lovely Bones now in theaters.

Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning film director, has been made a knight in the first New Zealand honours list since the country reinstated the title. New Zealand has Jackson to thank for a robust economy during the LOTR years. Sir Peter, whose final Lord of the Rings film Return of the King won best Picture and Best Director, mapped 17 Oscars for his Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jackson was made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Del Toro and Jackson have a positive working relationship, where they will compromise on disagreements to the benefit of the film.[16] Del Toro believes he will be able to shoot all of the films himself,[38] although Jackson noted he had similar hopes for filming all of his trilogy, and has offered to help as second [...]

Del Toro will give LOTR fans a new Hobbit, but will Ron Perlman be the voice of Smaug? beorn the Bear-man?

In the film LOTR series Jonathan Rhys-Davies was Gimli, Gloin’s son. But the character of Gloin for the Hobbit prequels won’t be played by the British actor. (from empire.uk)

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