Is Sam Raimi going to direct The Hobbit?

The Flashlight · Apr 23, 2007

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41230

Raimi Clarifies Hobbit Reports

Writer/director Sam Raimi confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he has spoken with New Line Cinema honcho Robert Shaye about helming The Hobbit, a Lord of the Rings prequel film based on J.R.R. Tolkien's book, but only once and only informally. "I spoke to him once, so it's a little more overblown, I think," Raimi said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., over the weekend while promoting his upcoming Spider-Man 3. "That's why I don't want to pretend that it's bigger than it is. I had one conversation about the possibility of it, and that's really where it's at."

As for his interest in the film, Raimi repeated that he would only sign on with the OK of Peter Jackson, the Rings director who has been blacklisted by New Line as a result of a lawsuit over Rings revenues. "I'd have to know that he was OK with it," Raimi said. "It's really his picture and Bob Shaye's picture."

Raimi added: "The truth is, I just don't know what I'm going to do next. That's the most honest answer I can give you. And I can't honestly say, even though I have spoken to Bob Shaye, that I don't know that I could honestly say that anything's been offered to me until some time in the future, because it just wouldn't be exactly right. Or true." As for his thoughts about how he would helm The Hobbit, Raimi said: "I haven't had any of those thoughts yet, because I think it's still Peter Jackson's project. It would be so premature. I'm so overwhelmed with my own insecurities, I can't take his on just yet." Spider-Man 3 opens May 4.
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Dan Leach · Apr 23, 2007

Although i really disliked some of what Jackson and Fran Walshe did to LOTR i'd like to see Jackson do it as he wanted a 2-movie deal. With The Hobbit as one film and a 'LOTR' prequel as the other. I think id be more interested in the LOTR prequel than The Hobbit

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