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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
Five years from now I do not want to be engaging in a debate with davem and WCH about the lack of purity in THE HOBBIT films. And I certainly do not want to read how the filler stuff Jackson put because he was barred from the fuller more descriptive material was rubbish. There is opportunity here and I would love to see it actualized.
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If they want to make a movie of TH they have all the material they need. Personally, I would have a problem with them importing other material into the story - whether that be the White Council & the assault on Dol Guldur or even the Quest for Erebor material. TH is a perfect, self contained tale & should be left as is.
Beyond that whether a further movie is made is entirely down to New Line - the idea that they would be agonising over not having access to the material they need to make it is a bit odd - like me agonising about how I'm going to juggle four rabid ferrets: the solution to that particular problem is that I don't actually
have to juggle them at all.
Maybe its my age, but I honestly don't see why books have to be automatically turned into movies - as though books are nothing but 'first draft screenplays'. There is no necessity for any more M-e movies, & the only reason New Line want to make them is that they're apparently so incompetent that they can't come up with any other movies that anyone wants to watch (on the Golden Compass thing - I don't know whether its down to the 'boycott' which some Churches have tried to organise or whether its down to it being a bad movie, but New Line clearly have got themselves into a position where only another couple of Tolkien movies can save their bacon & that's the only reason they've gone crawling back to Jackson & want access to more of Tolkien's writings - they need to produce Tolkien movies that don't annoy the fans. But after what they did
to LotR I don't see why the Estate should care what happens to New Line....)