Word is that Warner Bros might be playing a bit or release date chess with two of their biggest movies yet. According to TMT Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies are not going quite to schedule and he may struggle to meet the December 14th release date for the first of the two prequels; "An Unexpected Journey". Apparently he is open to delaying the release until the following year which would allow Zack Snyder's Superman reboot to swoop in and reclaim it's original Christmas 2012 spot.
From TMT..
One scenario we're hearing involves the studio moving The Man of Steel, the Christopher Nolan-“Godfathered” Superman revival with Zack Snyder wearing the director cap into that Christmas ’12 slot. We've been told that production is flying as fast as the Big Blue himself with shooting to wrap early February, and scenes already being edited and sent out to various post-production houses as I type this.
The site themselves stress that nothing is official here so this could all be untrue but if it's not, we get not only
The Avengers,
The Amazing Spider-Man and
TDKR next year but
Man Of Steel too. 2012 would truly be the year of the CBM. Again! Of course it also means we don't get to see
The Hobbit for a longer while either, but hey, can't have everything. Which would you prefer to keep the 2012 release?
Well, good news for Hobbit fans, bad news for Supes fans.
Update from WB -
"Contrary to inaccurate reports - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is being released on December 14, 2012" - Dan Fellman, President, Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures."
Thanks to the
MOS FB page for the heads up
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