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"Peter Jackson has revealed that he hopes to extend the Lord of the Rings franchise beyond 2013&amp;#039;s The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Speaking to HitFix at Comic-Con, the producer and director divulged that talks with Warner Bros are under way with a view to splitting the second Hobbit movie into two.   &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a discussion we&amp;#039;re having, yeah,&amp;quot; he said, referring to a potential break-up of the final movie. &amp;quot;We have certainly been talking to the studio about some of the material we can&amp;#039;t film, and we&amp;#039;ve been asking them so we can do a bit more filming next year.  &amp;quot;Which, I don&amp;#039;t know what would come of that, whether it&amp;#039;d be extended editions or whatnot. But those discussions are ongoing.&amp;quot; Jackson also spoke of his desire to film extra material from author JRR Tolkien&amp;#039;s Return of the King to complete the story. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d like to shoot a bunch more material that we [couldn&amp;#039;t] shoot. There&amp;#039;s so much good stuff in the appendices that we haven&amp;#039;t been able to squeeze into these movies,&amp;quot; he said. Watch the trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - released on December 14 in the US and UK - below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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