Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie 325
saudadelinux writes "Last year, the Tolkien Trust, which administers JRR's estate, bellowed stentoriously, 'Youuuu shall not make The Hobbit!' and sued New Line Cinema for 'a reported $220m (£133m) in compensation, based on breach of contract and fraud.' New Line, chastened, has settled for an undisclosed sum of money. The Trust has given its blessing to New Line for Guillermo del Toro to film The Hobbit and for New Line to make other films based on Tolkien's work. Much rejoicing!"
Oh great (Score:5, Funny)
The exclamation point (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, the new title is "The Hobbit! The Musical! On Ice!" It's as faithful to the original you can be and still have it involve lots of ice dancing. Which is not very faithful at all.
Re:Oh great (Score:5, Funny)
One Trust to rule them all (Score:4, Funny)
Courtesy of Melkor Publishing Inc...
Re:Hollywood accounting (Score:5, Funny)
If there's one wikipedia page (and in reality there's 10,000s), that sums up the inadequacies of wikipedia, it's that Hollywood Accounting one. That page is 100% hearsay, gossip column and TMZ-esque gossip presented as fact and wikiality.
Phew, thank God a random Slashdot user saved us from that evil Wikipedia page, because of course, since we can fully trust Slashdot users always check their facts before posting.
Re:Tolkien has the depth of a inflatable pool. (Score:5, Funny)
has the depth of an inflatable pool.
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Re:Derivitive work (Score:2, Funny)
Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are fine ... (Score:1, Funny)
... but they're no Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin.
Re:Hollywood accounting (Score:5, Funny)
If there's one wikipedia page (and in reality there's 10,000s), that sums up the inadequacies of wikipedia, it's that Hollywood Accounting one. That page is 100% hearsay, gossip column and TMZ-esque gossip presented as fact and wikiality.
Phew, thank God a random Slashdot user saved us from that evil Wikipedia page, because of course, since we can fully trust Slashdot users always check their facts before posting.
Finally, an Anonymous Coward has stepped forward to put an end to this pointless bickering, warning us not to trust random Slashdot users. Because of course, we can fully trust Anonymous Cowards. They are anonymous, what would they have to gain by lying?
Re:Guillermo del Toro (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wha tha?... (Score:3, Funny)
You're crazy. Ron Perlman makes everything better. Whatever it is. He'd be a perfect Bilbo Baggins. Or at least the voice of Smaug. Or better yet, just dress him up in a big Smaug costume!
Re:once an idea or book (Score:2, Funny)
I think the money should be returned to the faithful movie fans in the form of popcorn discounts.
$3 billion buys almost 100 medium sized servings of popcorn at my local theater.
Re:Oh great (Score:2, Funny)
Clerks 2 doesn't exist for me.