Oscar winning director Peter Jackson says it will be at least three years before he shoots The Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. Jackson this weekend took a break from his busy schedule filming King Kong in Auckland, stopping by Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum to check out the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) exhibition. Tonight, the very private director will give a talk to fans about his films at the State Theatre. A slimmed-down Jackson, who arrived in Sydney yesterday, was asked today how long it would be before he started production on The Hobbit. “Three or four years would be accurate, I would say,” Jackson said. [More]

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