If losing its director, its studio going into bankruptcy and unions going to war over whether or not the production would be biased to Australian actors wasn’t enough, now one of the effects houses that would’ve been used for The Hobbit has been seriously damaged in a fire. Now will you believe that the movie [...]
So is the real irony of ironies here the fact that Peter Jackson was so successful in making Lord of the Rings that it meant no one else would ever come close to the world of Tolkien?
Maybe our return trip to Middle Earth isn’t as far away as we all had initially thought.
From The New York Times, September 8, 2009:
