New Line Cinema, the Hobbit, and greed
Posted Mar 2, 2011 by anonymous | 101 views | 0 comments
I just read about how New Line Cinema isn't going to hire Peter Jackson to direct the Hobbit, because they want him to drop his lawsuit about how much of the 3 billion dollars LOTR made that Peter's company will get. As a creative professional who has been stiffed on payments for difficult but beautiful creations, I feel for Jackson. But more importantly, he undertook the lawsuit only after an audit showed irregularities in income dispersion. And most importantly, we all know this movie (The Hobbit) and it's successor (an unnamed Hobbit sequel/LOTR prequel) will suck without Jackson. Any new guy hired is going to have to pee all over the new work to mark his territory. And there's just too much Jackson did right, for it to be changed merely to prove 'someone different is at the helm'. Or maybe even worse, they'll just hire a copycat. I'm not by any means the biggest LOTR dweeb around, but this is a travesty. I even went to New Line's website to complain, but they have no contact email or form. I guess they don't care about customers unless they are in a focus group at a mall somewhere. I urge everyone who cares and has time to try to make their feeling clear to New Line. And hopefully JRRT will speak from beyond the grave, as I am sure that having Jackson faithfully interpret his vision for the screen would be far more important than a few million dollars here or there.
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