Just When Two Hobbit Films Weren't Enough...
Wed, August 19, 2009 
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was successful in every way imaginable - huge box-office, critically acclaimed, loved by nerds and the general public alike and all those Academy Awards. So even though it feels like it's taking a tad longer than anticipated to get going, there's no doubt that The Hobbit will definitely get made. There's just too much money to make for them to fuck this up.
Peter Jackson recently admitted that the first draft had just been turned into the studio (in this case: Warner Brothers/New Line Cinema) and they'd yet to receive a greenlight to officially get things moving along. Of course, plans have changed a couple of times since the project was first announced. We were supposed to get The Hobbit as well as a "bridge" film that linked it to the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring originally. Said plans changed to instead just adapt Hobbit into two films for Christmas 2011 and 2012 release.
Now MarketSaw has received word that things have changed yet again. As per their source(s):
1. THE HOBBIT(s) will be in stereoscopic 3D.
2. THE HOBBIT will be shot in THREE movies - two Del Toro movies covering the book itself and a third bridge movie.
3. Peter Jackson will direct the bridge movie.
4. Smaug and the characters in THE HOBBIT will be darker than in the book.
Here's the thing. I don't want to immediately shit on this because some of this sounds plausiable as Hell.
I can imagine Warner Brothers wanting to drag this out as much as possible - especially with their Harry Potter franchise coming to a close, Batman III being a ways off, Terminator: Salvation turning out to be a box-office fluke and Superman in hibernation at the moment. And I could also imagine that said "bridge" film could be the only way to get Jackson interested towards returning to the director's chair.
So mark this one under "Rumor" for the moment.
Reader Comments (3)
3D makes sense since PJ like Cameron likes 3D and they are friends now.
but i hope PJ wont direct. i say move on.
This rumor has been proven to be bullshit.
Yes, Guillermo Del Toro confirmed it's not true.