Pic: A more rotund Peter Jackson collecting his deserved Oscar.
We heard earlier on this week that the highly anticipated movies based on the Tolkien classic The Hobbit, which are to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson, were to be delayed due to the first film’s script only just having been completed. The first movie is due in theaters at the end of 2011, and what with the second of the two being worked on at the moment, and not due to be competed until sometime in the new year, it doesn’t leave much time for the flick to complete production. Making a December 2011 release seem unlikely right? Wrong. Jackson caught up with Collider.
“Nothing has changed as far as I am concerned. Somebody wrote something on the internet and a lot of nonsense happened. You don’t want to believe everything you read on the internet. We were due to deliver the scripts and be shooting sometime around April and now I think I said in an interview we were shooting in June. And somehow people are now saying the film is delayed. As far as I am aware, they are not delayed at all. I am not even sure when we are going to start shooting. We are delivering the scripts. Just after Christmas they’ll be finished and we’ll be shooting as soon as we possibly can. But you need a certain amount of time to finish the pre-production.”
