Peter Jackson officially involved with "the Hobbit" films.

[the mongoose]

Click (http://www.theonering.net/)

Awesome news, hope he's directing as well.:cool:

[Deckard]

From the way it's being reported, it doesn't look like he'll be directing.

Hmmmm.

Sam Raimi?
Guillermo Del Toro?

[dubman]

guillermo would be amazing.
the hobbit books not only are but *feel* different than the regular LoTR books, lets hope they have the balls to distance it a bit from the franchise and make it its own amazing saga.

also, read the press release. jackson's doing tintin with speilberg. super excited about that!

[King of Snake]

yeah read about the tintin thing yesterday as well. Supposedly Andy Serkis is doing captain Haddock :)
I wonder which story it will be based on, or if they're gonna try and write a whole new one.
I'd like to see the do Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon, but most of the other stories would be great film material as well I think.

gotta dig out those books again...

[big screen satellite]

McKellen is back as Gandalf - which is obv very good news....

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=22480

'run you fools....'

[chuck]

Del Toro has been confirmed as director on 'The Hobbit'

Don't have a link to hand - but it was mentioned in papers here.

And yeah - Tintin in pre-development. Will be interesting.

I had to chuckle - apparently the code-name for the initial project was "Snowy" - which if you know anything about the stories is a dead giveaway, and not particularly secret squirrel.

[mmm skyscraper]

Supposedly there is going to be a sequel also that covers the events between the end of the Hobbit and LOTR.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hobbitt25apr25,1,6111273.story