"The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It's not so much me as the entire vessel sank. Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that weren't getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. That kind of stuff happens, it's a fragile industry. So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it's been dead, ever since then. I'll be curious to see what happens."
Ergens in 2009 kwam zelfs het nieuws dat Peter Jackson uit het project was gestapt. Daarop brachten we echter ook het nieuws dat Steven Spielberg zich zou gaan bemoeien met de verfilming. Dit werd een week later ontkend door Microsoft. en daarnaast maakte de in 2006 aangestelde regisseur ook bekend uit het project te stappen, waardoor het wederom erop leek dat de film er niet ging komen.
Eergisteren gaf Frank OConnor, van Microsoft Game Studios, echter verlossend woord.
We're going to make a movie when the time is right. We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically. We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic."
De film gaat er dus zeker komen, de enige vraag is wanneer.