Metro Golden Mayer (MGM), the study of the roaring lion, suffers a bankruptcy that can end many years of history.
And, as there is little fund left in their accounts, their shareholders and senior officials have decided to risk their entire future with a single film, or rather two, the expected one. The Hobbit, prequel to The Lord of the Rings, directed by Guillermo del Toro and as screenwriters, adapting the novel by Tolkien, Peter Jackson Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and del Toro himself.
To see the Hobbits and the world created by Tolkien in theaters again will cost MGM about $ 250 million, as they will shoot both films at the same time to cut costs.
If I were Guillermo del Toro, I would have chills knowing that the future of an all-powerful filmmaker like MGM depends on my job.
Si The Hobbit sweeps theaters, which will be the safest thing, MGM will have a few years of economic relief unless it continues to produce films that are not lucky at the box office.
If everything goes fine, The Hobbit It will start shooting next year, so by 2011 we would have it in theaters.