A summary from DailyIndia.com:
'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson was reportedly sacked as the director of the planned 'Hobbit,' movies after being piqued over his refusal to contribute a video salute to the studio for its 40th anniversary celebration next year.
Jackson had recently written an email to a fan website citing that movie bosses at 'New Line Cinema' would not sign him for directing the film, based on JRR Tolkien's classic book, or another 'The Lord Of The Rings' prequel.
His production company 'Wingnut Films' is currently embroiled in a legal battle with 'New Line Cinema' over royalties from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
Jackson's camp now accuses the studio of dropping him from the prequels "in a fit of pique," reports the New York Times.
According to the twim guys, the Wignut vs New Line embroglio is to the tune of some $100 Million dollars. Also according to them -- and an interesting bit of information at that-- the movie theaters make money on popcorn, soda, etc. on the first 4 weeks or so. So if you want to boycott New Line if they don't go with Jackson, just wait 4 weeks before going to the movie.
More from 411 mania:
The saga surrounding Peter Jackson and The Hobbit continues. The latest news has Hobbit rights-holder Saul Zaentz telling the New York Times the following.
"We would like to see it done, of course with Peter Jackson. He's a good film director. He's the right guy. He knows it too. But it's a hard thing to do, when you feel you didn't get the money you were supposed to get."
Meanwhile, MGM released the following statement.
"We expect to partner with New Line in financing The Hobbit. We support Peter Jackson as a filmmaker, and believe that when the dust settles, he'll be making the movie. We can't imagine any other result."
I'm eager to see such a movie in any event, and hopefully it will be a more light-hearted, young-kid-friendly movie intro to Tolkien so I can take my kids.
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