The One Ring

[n1x3l]

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and to fire Peter Jackson with, apparently.

According to Peter Jackson, the word came down from Mark Ordesky -- an executive from New Line Cinema -- last week. Mr. Ordesky telephoned to inform Peter that he and Fran Walsh (and it's safe to assume Phillipa Boyens) will

Comments

[yamiko]

Wait, they have the rights to make a SECOND LotR prequel?

Does that mean they're doing the Silmarillion? My God, why?

[n1x3l]

The Silmarillion is my assumption as well, but as they haven't expressly said as much, I didn't want to claim it as fact.

[princess_apathy]

Well, at least the fans can still masturbate to the lord of the rings until then.

[lotus_watcher]

I'll admit that I'm a fanboy of Lord of the Rings, but I'm a quiet one. That doesn't make me less weird than the crazies that run around in chainmail, though. I spent the better part of my youth obsessing over the books, whose themes and content shaped and molded my personality and how I viewed the world. To a large part, they still do today. I don't run around yelling rabble rabble rabble about the movies, and in all actuality, I generally avoid watching them with others. It's mostly because I can't stop myself from crying when I watch them (with the exception of booing the constant putting down of gimli).

So I'll draw a line in the sand. I can promise that if Jackson doesn't get the opportunity to direct the upcoming prequels, I will personally boycott New Line Cinema and all their subsidaries as long as I live, and I will do my utmost to convince others to do likewise. It is, of course, still Mr Jackson's choice, but there's my 2 cents worth. I'll do whatever is within my power to destroy that company, for good or ill.