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   From: joedoe3@gmail.com   
      
   Sandman schrieb am 08/02/2012 09:55 AM:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Steuard Jensen  wrote:   
   >>    Jackson can't use any of that material without opening himself to a   
   >>    lawsuit that would have a good chance of blocking release of the   
   >>    films entirely. But if he invents his own clearly-different   
   >>    replacements, he's deliberately changing Tolkien's story.   
   >   
   > Or rather, is forced to do so due to the Tolkien estate. [...]   
   >   
   >>    course, he's done that before with less justification, but for the   
   >>    previous films he still claimed repeatedly that he was doing all he   
   >>    could to bring Tolkien's vision to life. This time, making that   
   >>    claim could get him into deep trouble.   
   >   
   > How so? I mean, I understand what you mean, but if he *can't* bring   
   > Tolkiens "vision to life" due to the Tolkien estate, the problem lies   
   > with them, not him. His choices are to fabricate these events at the   
   > perilous wrath of the Tolkien faithful, or do it anyway and risk a law   
   > suit.   
      
      
   no, he could just stick to what he has (unfortunately) the rights to: do   
   a movie about the book "The Hobbit" and be done with it and keep his own   
   warped vision of Middle-Earth to himself - and at least not try to make   
   money by abusing Tolkien's name to sell his own crude ideas.   
      
      
   >>    The easiest way to avoid those issues would be to make The Hobbit   
   >>    into just one film, or maybe two, and simply not address them in   
   >>    substantially more depth than the original book did.   
   >   
   > But then New Line Cinema wouldn't make as much money, now would they?   
   > :)   
      
   and neither would Jackson...   
      
   >> After writing all that, I saw a wonderfully concise statement of the   
   >> issue that someone shared on Facebook: "Bilbo's reaction to the   
   >> announcement of a 3rd movie was actually already quoted in The Lord of   
   >> the Rings: 'I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over   
   >> too much bread.'"   
   >>   
   >> Anyone else have thoughts on the three-movie idea?   
      
   I think it's the typically deplorable greedy Jackson idea. What a pity   
   he does not like Prince Valiant or Feist - he could spend his time   
   making movies about battles without raping art beyond his comprehension.   
      
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    Geza   
      
      
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