Peter Jackson Might Direct Those Hobbits After All

Big day in nerd news, everyone. First word of a Ray Bradbury adaptation for you hard sci-fi guys, now news Peter Jackson may direct The Hobbit films. According to Heat Vision, Warner Bros. and New Line are in talks with the director to continue his work finishing off the Tolkien adaptations, providing a unified vision across the Ring Lord films. If this goes through, expect high fantasy-themed revelry all weekend (sword swinging, celebratory incantations, Mûmakil vuvuzela-blowing).
It hasn't even been a month since Peter Jackson gleefully announced the end of principal shooting on The Hobbit, but already the director is looking for a way to return to the fantasy realm of Middle Earth. Nerd.... / Continue →
On The Hobbit's official Facebook page, Peter Jackson has announced the addition of two more names to his cast of millions. Lost actress and uncredited White Chicks partygoer Evangeline Lilly will lend her elf-like, Kate Beckinsale-esque features to Tauriel, a newly-created Woo... / Continue →
Filling in some crucial Hobbit casting that's been keeping the high fantasy community up all night, Peter Jackson has officially filled the parts of Bard and Smaug in his Tolkien adaptation. Welsh actor Luke Evans, whose apparent god-like appearance got him the role of Apollo i... / Continue →

