Jackson and del Toro to pen "Hobbit" screenplays (Reuters)

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Jackson and Del Toro give up on Hobbit writers
Published 8/20/2008 at Filmstalker
... up the position themselves. They've been at it for some eight months, but now they think they can do the job themselves, and it isn't that hard for the first film since it's a direct adaptation of The Hobbit novel, the second film will perhaps be the big challenge. The second film is to take various works from J.R.R. Tolkien and pull them together to bridge the gap between where The Hobbit ends and The Lord of the Rings begins. According to The Hollywood Reporter through Yahoo News there were three reasons that Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro ...