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Peter Jackson is hard at work on several projects, one including a possible miniseries adaptation of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire book series.  In the books, the Napoleonic wars wage in the midst of dragons.
Jackson said, “I can’t see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films. To [...]

This week, casting begins on Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.  While Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are set to return as Gandalf and Gollum, respectively, it is unlikely that Ian Holm will return to play a young Bilbo Baggins.  Additionally, many characters in The Hobbit did not appear in The Lord [...]

MovieReporter.net talked recently with Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and producer/writer of the upcoming film, The Hobbit.  Jackson told the site that the script’s second draft should be completed by December or January.  The filmmakers hope to begin shooting the picture next summer.
Guillermo Del Toro is set to direct The [...]