Director Peter Jackson took to Facebook on Monday to confirm rumors that he would be releasing his long-awaited adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” as three rather than two movies.
Many commentators have reacted harshly. The Playlist’s Oliver Lyttelton wrote Jackson an open letter denouncing the decision, which he called “potentially disastrous,” arguing that further dividing a story originally planned for two movies was likely to sap the plot of narrative tension. And Dorothy Pomerantz, over at Forbes, chalked the whole thing up to greed on the part of the studio.
Both compared the announcement to similar splices by the makers of the final installments of “Harry Potter,” “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games” — a bad omen for the follow-up to a series that won 17 out of the 30 Academy Awards for which it was nominated. The decision to make
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