Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Despite the frackus between New Line Cinema and the Jacksons (Peter and Fran Walsh), MGM studios has indicated that as far as they are concerned the matter of whether Jackson will helm the two proposed Hobbit films is “far from closed.”
If you read our previous story on the matter (Jackson Loses The Hobbit), then it would have appeared that the gulf between Jackson and New Line was too vast to bridge.
But MGM, the big guns behind the distribution rights to “The Hobbit,” told Variety that “the matter of Peter Jackson directing the Hobbit films is far from closed.” New Line, on the other hand, had nothing new to add.
Stay tuned to Slice of SciFi because this story is constantly evolving, and as Paul Harvey is so fond of saying, we are sure there is more to “the rest of” this story.
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