Middle Earth without Peter?


	Middle Earth without Peter?
jleealex
11-23-2006 6:29 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a0a5f20-2918-49c8-9d5c-0d308d6fd773/5C3924AE-29C1-47A5-A2AE-EA1467B1DEAF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><DIV class="sh">
					McKellen 'sad' at Hobbit decision
				</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/D023F458-8DA3-4DE6-A41C-FF3765D516F6" alt="Sir Ian McKellen in The Fellowship of the Ring" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><FONT size="2">"I'm very sad as I should have relished revisiting Middle Earth with Peter again," the actor wrote on his website.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><FONT size="2">"It's hard to imagine any other director matching his achievement in Tolkien country." 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><FONT size="2">But New Line said it had only "limited time" to make the film and was proceeding without the Oscar-winning director.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><FONT size="2">The announcement has led to an online petition of 1,100 people asking for Jackson to be reinstated.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><FONT size="2">The petition created calls for The Hobbit to be filmed "the way it was meant to be or not at all".
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6173178.stm"><FONT size="2">A website has also been set up urging a boycott of New Line, and fans have used weblogs and forums to question the studio's judgement.
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		<B>Can you imagine someone other than Ian McKellen playing Gandalf the Grey?</B>
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	<DIV>Extract from online petition</DIV>
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The petition argues that a Hobbit movie without Peter Jackson and his writers and special effects team is not what fans want. 
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