Series 9 Rumours & Speculation

[A Cousin]

(23-10-2010 12:31 PM)theeyeshaveit Wrote:  I don't think we should assume Lucas is leaving because of RA's other work. I don't know when Spooks 9 finished production, but I am pretty sure Peter Jackson was not in The Hobbit picture then and I don't think TH was even a goer at that time.

I am also not prepared to condemn the writers at this stage, I still hope there will be a good resolution to Lucas that will not see him leave in disgrace.

From what I understand, Peter Jackson was always Executive Producer on The Hobbit he just didn't want to direct it. He and his wife, Fran Walsh, make the final casting decisions. I have been seeing casting calls since December 2009. RA would have auditioned for this for months. He's not so well known that he doesn't have to go through an extensive audition process. Then there were months of faffing about re: director and union issues. They couldn't legally announce any cast until all that was resolved. It starts production in February 2011. I am not worried about them finding a different location than NZ. Any country would be happy to take the 500 million. I dunno, guys. I could be wrong but Thorin is a pretty big role. And a role that RA is going to be fabulous in, so I'm looking forward to that!

Certainly Spooks filmed two endings because they didn't know if there was going to be an S10, but I wonder if Spooks made two ending b/c they didn't know if RA was going to be available for an S10? I think he might have that kind of pull. And here I was thinking that RA's casting in The Hobbit wasn't announced because they didn't want to give away RA's fate on Spooks.

I'm with you re:the writers. We still have two very pivotal episodes to get through. I, frankly, am at a loss.

Niggling thought: Maya was in on "it" all along and betrays Lucas at the end.