The wait for Peter Jackson's return to Middle Earth just got longer. By a full three months!!!
In a move that could affect casting choices (doubtful) and proposed release dates (probable), Peter Jackson has announced that production on his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT could be pushed to the middle of summer 2010. This is evidently due to a delay in the completion of the screenplay for the second installment, which Jackson is currently banging out with Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro.
Does this mean THE HOBBIT PART 1 will miss its tentatively-scheduled December 2011 release date? Possibly. What it most assuredly means is that del Toro won't be free of his Tolkien obligations as soon as we thought, so if you're holding out for, say, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS... keep on holdin' out.
