Peter Jackson talks about The Hobbit

Finally, after a few weeks of speculation on the status of The Hobbit, including sites bashing other sites for what’s news and non-news, Peter Jackson talked with Moviefone the other day and settles a lot of hearsay.

“We’ve just delivered the script. Literally last week, we delivered the second of the two screenplays — the first draft. So the studio’s got both scripts now, which is a milestone; and if anything was holding it up, it was us doing the screenplays, because we’d just been writing as fast as we can, but it took us this long to get them finished. So we take whatever responsibility there is for the speed. And we’re now in the process of budgeting the films, and then hopefully we’ll get to a budget the studio [people] are happy with, and they’ll greenlight the movies and we’ll announce the shooting dates. I’d be pretty optimistic that we’ll be shooting before the end of the year. I would imagine October, November, we’d be shooting by. I’m not announcing it, though.”

One hopes the films will feel apart of his trilogy since so much time has passed and PJ isn’t directing them.

Source: Coming Soon