As you know, a little while back I reported that MGM was moving ahead with plans for making The Hobbit, which got all of us film fans totally buzzing, and well we should. News is that they’re going to break The Hobbit movie into 2 separate parts, which is also good news (to me anyway). So everything is right in the world… or is it?
Yesterday I was reading a news blurb on the whole thing from the good folks over at Moiveweb… and in the middle of chat about Terminator 4, this little bit appeared:
(MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands) is in discussions with New Line Cinema to get the rights to produce two prequel films to “The Lord of the Rings” series, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, he said. Other projects he mentioned include a sequel to “The Thomas Crown Affair,” set to star Pierce Brosnan, and a remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Wait a second. What was that?!?! He’s still “in negotiations”!?!?! The previous releases seemed to suggest this was a done deal. Now it’s “still in negotiations”? Oh good grief, please someone tell me we’re not looking at another Indiana Jones 4 situation here… talk and talk and talk and never get an actuall bloody movie. I have a bad feeling about this.
