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Warner Bros desperate to get Jackson, Nolan back.

Not the same kind of desperate, though. Warner Bros executives were only desperate enough to send the CEOs to see Peter Jackson in person in New Zealand (where I hope Jackson received them in his full-scale mockup of Edoras’s throne room) to talk about him doing more LotR flicks. That’s fairly desperate, sure. But how desperate are they to get Christopher Nolan back?

This desperate: “Inside sources at the studio say that “the director received a seven-figure royalty check from Warner Bros. within the past eight months. The payment was tied to his 2020 film Tenet.” …You only pay millions of dollars to start the groveling process when you’re really, really desperate. I still suggest Nolan should give Zack Snyder a call. See if he has any good ideas for suitable public humiliations, and all that.

The ‘Mortal Engines’ trailer.

…Yeah. I never actually finished the book that this is based off of, because the premise was, to me, ridiculously absurd. How absurd? Let me put it this way: what you’re about to watch is fairly accurate, in terms of the world and situation.

Continue reading The ‘Mortal Engines’ trailer.

Psychosis is relative.

I mean, obviously “Peter Jackson Opens Up About His Personal Hobbit Friends In Beginnings Of Genius Marketing Campaign Or Full-On Mental Breakdown” is an Onion article and thus not real, but hey: it’s not like the man was being portrayed as being dangerous, or anything. Besides, isn’t Peter Jackson rolling in enough dough now that all of this would simply have been redefined as an amusing set of eccentricities, instead of schizophrenia?

Besides, the filming’s mostly done by now anyway.

@allahpundit is not actually dead to me.

But I’ll be damned if I can think of many leisure activities off of the top of my head that’s preferable to sitting down and watching the The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time*. Oh, there are a couple – but less than you’d think.

Anyway, here. Have ten and a half minutes of footage designed to make you drool over the upcoming Hobbit movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfesknLk5uI&feature=player_embedded

Oh baby, yeah. I’m in the wrong business.

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*If you’ve never seen this in theaters… well. I’m sorry for you.

District 9 Trailer.

First that I’ve heard of this, actually:

Looks like it could be fun*. The website’s pretty comprehensive.

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*In an anti-Alien Nation sort of way.

Peter Jackson’s WETA Workshop makes a mermaid.

(Via Fark) Apparently, it takes a little bit more than the usual make-work projects to keep the people of WETA on their game, so they decided to go and make a functional prosthetic mermaid’s tail for a double amputee.

Just to keep their hand in, you understand. After all, it’s going to be two years before The Hobbit comes out.

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PS: Second half of the video here, but language warning. They picked a fairly inappropriate song to use for it, in my opinion.