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Я правильно понял? Джексон обещает пролог в расширенной версии и он не прочь продолжить в будущем работу над фильмами о Средиземье, если будут права на экранизацию. ‘No Regrets’: Peter Jackson Says Goodbye to Middle-Earth - The Daily Beast

I really hope we get a prologue in the EE. I don't mind the laketown sequence but it does really feel abrupt. It feels like they added nothing to it to make it a "beginning" and therefore it truly feels like the climax of DOS. I wish they had actually ended DOS with that scene and opened BOTFA with DOl Guldur, a perfectly fit action sequence.

As you’ve mentioned, the rights to future Tolkien books are still with the estate. But even if you did have the chance to adapt them into films, would you even want to, especially after making two trilogies?

Well, it’s a very hard question. It’s a hypothetical one. I’ve never really thought about it because we have got projects that we can do that aren’t impossible, that aren’t full of legal complications. But the truth of it is, they probably will one day [be made]. The Tolkien estate doesn’t want to release the films because it’s a decision that the current executors of the estate believe in. But at some point that may change, the executors may change, and those rights may suddenly surface.

But look, it depends on how old I am [laughs], and whether I have the energy anymore. Having been happy to hand The Hobbit to Guillermo [Del Toro] and then doing it myself, I definitely ended up with a stronger sense of ownership of Middle-earth than I ever had before, and it would be kind of hard to sit back and watch another filmmaker do stories if they were connected to these ones. If they weren’t connected, then sure. But if it was something connected to this mythology that we’ve done, if I had the energy and the strength then I would really want to do it. Never say never!