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I donno if anyone else knew this, but it is currently in debate whether or not the movie "The Hobbit"(a 'prequel' to Lord of the Rings) is going to be filmed. Peter Jackson, the director of LotR is making a remake of King Kong right now, but he says that after that's finished he'd love to make The Hobbit. Now there's a big mess with New Line Cinema, United Artists, and some other folks to get the rights to the movie, but hopefully it will all turn out, so that we can enjoy another good movie.

http://derhobbit-film.de/indexengl.shtml

^ that site will have any info regarding The Hobbit in the future....

I'd like to see how well he executes The Hobbit. He's got Weta, one of the most talented and skilled special effects workshops in the world at his beck and call. Though any hope of cutting the costs on using sets from the LOTR trilogy is out of the idea, with the exception of the Bag End set, which Jackson owns personally.

If he gets a hold of the project, I wouldn't expect to see anything before 2008, though.

I'm trying to think. I haven't read The Hobbit in a few years..

Were there any other places that the Fellowship went in LOTR that Bilbo went to in The Hobbit? Because as you said, they could use Bag-End, but I'm wondering about any other areas.

Did Bilbo go to Rivendell? I'm not sure.

Well in FOTR they go past the 3 trolls that turned to stone (maybe it's just the extended version?)...but that was just a woods not a big expensive set and the stone trolls would only be used after the sun came up (I've never read it but I'm up on knowledge)

All the other sets, with the exception of Bag End (Jackson personally paid to have it in storage), were scrapped as soon as they were deamed useless. Rivendell and the Shire come to mind, but alas, as far as I know both of those sets are long gone. *facepalm*

Damn.. I hate when people quote your posts and you can plainly see some dumbass mistake you made. :lol:

WOOT!! Let's hear it for the CGI Smaug, if he is made!

If you make it, they will watch . . . .

......I don't think I can wait until 2008, but if I must, I must.