Peter Jackson discusses directing "The Hobbit"

[orbitalfreak]

So it would be Gandalf and the Seven Dwarfs? (well, 6 1/2, really)

I'm thinking they want to avoid the number 7, really.

At least he's "the Grey," at this time, and not "the White!"

 

[Orius]

Some of this has already been hashed about at the following thread:
http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68173

And here I was thinking the boards got pulled into some real weird time warp and I was reading it all over again. All the two year old threads getting resurrected on another part of the boards sort of contributed to that suspicion too.

 

[johnsemlak]

OK, this is how it was explained to me. New Line bought the rights to make the Hobbit from Saul Zaentz Co. The rights to distribute the Hobbit, however, are owned by another studio (United Artists, iirc). Probably having to do with the 1977 animated version.

Ugh, complex indeed.

Still, you'd think both studios would realize there's enough money in it to work out a deal.