"The Hobbit" to be produced after all

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67@> 
> wrote:
> 
> Carol:
> > Peter Jackson and New Line have finally come to terms and he'll be
> > making "the Hobbit" after all! At any rate, he'll be executive
> > producer for "the Hobbit" and its sequel (????). I don't know whether
> > he'll be directing or not.
> 
> Geoff:
> But he's already made the sequel - it's called 
> "The Lord of the Rings".
> :-)
>
Carol responds:

LOL. But it looks like he's planning a "Hobbit II" to follow "The
Hobbit." Maybe it will cover the ground that the LOTR film left out,
between Bilbo's return to Hobbiton and "The Long-Expected Party,"
along with a visit from *Bilbo* to Tom Bombadil, though I don't see
how it can be plotted with any kind of crisis or climax. Either that,
or "The Hobbit" will come out in two parts, enabling them to get in
every scene in the book. That seems to me more likely.

Carol, hoping to hear more about it in the near future