‘Hobbit’ Production Runs into a Relative Snag
But some word on a narrator...
The Times Online is reporting that while Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro are holding online chat sessions with production on The Hobbit ready to rock and roll there is one gentleman not so interested in letting things movie forward, that is at least not without the £80m he says New Line Cinema owes him and his family.
Christopher Tolkien, 83, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien is reportedly going to make one last effort to halt the production of The Hobbit saying that his family is still owed £80m by New Line Cinema under a deal for a 7.5% share of profits that was signed in 1969, when his father reluctantly sold film rights to pay a tax bill. This comes as the “Times” reports, “only weeks before carpenters are due to begin work in New Zealand on the sets for the latest Middle-earth epic.”
Tolkien is expected to ask a California judge to “terminate” film rights to “The Hobbit.” Warner Bros., owner of New Line, did not comment.
The article does, however, continue to substantiate word that Ian McKellen will be back as Gandalf, as well will be Andy Serkis as Gollum/Smeagol. One other bit of news that I had not heard/read yet (it may have been in that massive chat, but I didn’t read it) is that Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in the Rings trilogy, will be narrating the two new Hobbit films.
We will have to wait and see how this all pans out.
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