Don’t expect The Hobbit for a while
by Doc on Mar.14, 2005, under Movies
With the rights issue still unresolved, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said when asked when he could begin work on the prequel The Hobbit, “Three or four years would be accurate, I would say.” With MGM (who hold distribution rights) being sold to Sony, Sony and New Line (with the filming rights) would have to duke it out for a deal before anything could be done.