Peter Jackson must be stopped

[Filuwaúrdjan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/30/peter-jackson-hobbit-three-films

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My poor, poor, poor childhood. What did it do to deserve this repeated mugging?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How can there conceivably be enough material in even The Hobbit plus all relevant portions of The History of Middle-Earth with Roverandom or something thrown in for good measure for a trilogy?

There isn't even material for two films, let alone three. A three part TV adaptation... possibly. But that's quite different. It's just not that sort of book, and what's so utterly alarming is that... urgh.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Meh, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is about as close to an epic masterpiece as you can get. Gonna give him the benefit of the doubt on this.

Even if that is so, the Hobbit is a children's book, not an epic anything. This is not actually a bad thing either, of course, but means that in order to be adapted successfully it requires a different approach.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I wasn't aware there were notes that Christopher hadn't already published in History.

I suppose what it might mean is that Jackson has been plundering Unfinished Tales.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

He never owned the rights to The Lord of the Rings; Tolkien sold them in the late 1950s (I think it was the late 50s anyway. Around then if not) to solve a tax problem.