In a round about way we found a quote online from Peter Jackson talking about The Hobbit and what is going on with it. Filming has been delayed from spring 2010, and is now nudged into summer.
It started at a German website and was translated over at OneRing.net then finally, First Showing shares it with us:
“We’re currently working on the second script which we hope to have completed by the end of this year or beginning of next. When the scripts are completed, we can begin with the exact calculation of the necessary budget. We hope to start filming in the middle of next year. However, we’ve received no green light from the studio yet.”
So all seems to be moving forward all without an official greenlight at the studio?
You know, with all the financial difficulty facing MGM, we were assured that existing deals would move forward as planned but now we find there isn’t one?
Maybe Jackson is just that confident that if things do go south with its current resting place that every studio out there will be fighting for the chance to get behind this guaranteed money train.
