History Of The Hobbit And The Headache Of Trying To Get It Made
Although the film version of The Lord of the Rings was a massive worldwide success, getting J.R.R. Tolkien's prequel, The Hobbit, to the screen has proven much more difficult. With the rights finally sorted out after being tied up for years and a studio feud with Rings director Peter Jackson resolved, the project finally began moving forward in 2008—only to be stalled this year by the looming collapse of MGM, one of the two companies financing the production, should it fail to find a way out of its $4 billion debt.
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As the world waits to see whether The Hobbit actually gets made into a movie, we thought it would be helpful to put together a timeline of the book's long and complicated march to the screen ... a march that is still in progress and moving one painful inch at a time.
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