After eight months of searching, Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro have finally decided upon the writers who will be penning the scripts for the two Hobbit movies...themselves.
Del Toro, who is directing the movies, will team with the "Lord of the Rings" filmmaker and "Hobbit" executive producer Jackson to adapt the J.R.R. Tolkien book and write its follow-up. Also joining them in the writers room are Frank Walsh and Philippa Boyens, both of whom collaborated with Jackson on the "Rings" trilogy.
The news caps off an eight-month search for a scribe to tackle the coveted task of bringing the literary classic to the big screen. When Jackson and New Line resolved their differences over profit participation in the "Rings" films, Jackson said he would not be writing the "Hobbit" movies because of other commitments, though he does have approval over creative elements in his role as exec producer.
So Jackson and Del Toro decided that they don't really trust anyone else to write the hobbit scripts? I'm cool with that. Both men are brilliant filmmakers. And unless Peter Jackson has gone all George Lucas on us, then he won't go ruining a franchise he worked so hard to create. This news is good news. The films come out in 2011, I can't wait to see them
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