greendragon
Sr. Staff
Mar 4 2007, 4:57pm
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that's where I blame NL the most....
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Aside, of course, from the fact that I SO want PJ to direct The Hobbit! My main issue with NL is that, according to an article I read, it was in the contract PJ et al had that they had the right to request an audit should they so desire. This is, I believe, standard practice in the film industry. So even if NL believe they DON'T owe PJ money, that they should block the audit is VERY suspicious. The answer should just be, 'Fine, you have a right to an audit, and we believe it will show we don't owe you money, so let's go ahead.' Then the decision is made and the matter is swiftly and (relatively) painlessly resolved. Instead, NL won't agree to the audit and then, when PJ understandably says he wouldn't feel right making a film with a company with whom he still had this ongoing battle, and anyway NL threaten him that they won't LET him do it if he won't agree to drop the claim, Shaye starts calling PJ names and generally behaving like an egotistical old (censored - family board!). That's as I understand it, anyway - and if I were a movie director I would be wary of ending up in a similar position with NL. And if my interpretation of events is correct, then I would think even those LotR fans who would like to see a different director have a go at The Hobbit must surely disapprove of the way NL have behaved.
'There are older and fouler things than orcs in the deep places of my fridge...'
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