Fans of The Lord Of The Rings will be shocked to hear that the Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson will not direct the prequel to these three epic films with The Hobbit.
Jackson said on TheOneRing.net website that he had been advised by New Line that the studio “would no longer be requiring our services on The Hobbit …[and] was now actively looking to hire another filmmaker.”
Jackson said that the studio cited the ongoing lawsuit that Jackson filed against New Line in June of 2005, charging that the studio had committed fraud in reporting the revenue for 2001’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which allegedly resulted in Jackson being underpaid millions of dollars.
If the notice from New Line was a tactic to convince Jackson to drop or settle the lawsuit, then it apparently failed to achieve its objective…
In the message on the website, Jackson said that he was “very sorry our involvement with The Hobbit has been ended in this way. … This outcome is not what we anticipated or wanted, but neither do we see any positive value in bitterness and rancor. We now have no choice but to let the idea of a film of The Hobbit go and move forward with other projects.”
Not only has Jackson’s ambition plans to make Halo the movie appearing on the big screen has been put on hold, but the prequel to JRR Tolkien’s story of how Bilbo Baggins took the ring from Gollium is now out of his hands…
Source: TheOneRing.net
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