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Jackson explained he's hoping to complete the second Hobbit script -- written with Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and director Guillermo del Toro -- by the beginning of next year, which would trigger calculation of the budget and setting a start for lensing in New Zealand
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We're now halfway through the second script and Philippa [Boyens], Fran [Walsh], Guillermo [del Toro] and myself are doing the scripts and having great fun.
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Peter Jackson is still a hands-on producer ... Guillermo del Toro comes in not as a wild card but very much respecting it all.
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And they'll be going when they've always said they would be, which is next spring - March or April. [Director] Guillermo [del Toro] even told me at one point, 'We're going to film for 383 days.' He's got that artistic autism!
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no one that picked them up would be foolish enough to dump ... Peter Jackson, or Guillermo Del Toro without cutting their own throats altogether. In fact, if The Hobbit landed at a fantasy friendly studio like Warner Bros, the results could be quite wonderful.
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I don't want to play Gandalf again. If you play a part that gets an awful lot of attention...forever after you're being asked by directors to play the same part in their movie. But I played the best wizard, and I'm happy to revisit him, which I shall do in The Hobbit with Guillermo del Toro.
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We're currently working on the second script which we hope to have completed by the end of this year or beginning of next
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When the scripts are completed, we can begin with the exact calculation of the necessary budget. We hope to start filming in the middle of next year. However, we've received no green light from the studio yet
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Executives close to the project said that Warner Brothers is now likely to release the first film at the end of 2012, and not at the end of 2011 as had been hoped for by the fans
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The second part would be pushed to 2013
