there and back again

I’ll post full details of my audition on Monday (short version: I had fun, and made them laugh a whole bunch, but I don’t know if I’m what they are looking for), but I just saw something in the Mysterious Future at Slashdot, and this is too insanely cool to wait:
Peter Jackson Will Direct "The Hobbit"!!!111one one one bang one
According to this news item, there’s some question about who will distribute the film, but Peter Jackson has the rights to direct it, and wants to make it feel just like the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

NEW YORK (AP) – Peter Jackson won’t be returning to the Shire any time soon. The Oscar-winning director is planning to film “The Hobbit,” the prequel to “The Lord of the Rings,” trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, but two studios must first fight over legal rights to the film.
Jackson said New Line Cinema has the rights to make the movie, but MGM has the rights to distribute it.
“I guess MGM’s lawyers and New Line’s lawyers are going to have a huge amount of fun over the next few years trying to work it all out,” he told reporters recently in Los Angeles, according to AP Radio. “I’m obviously busy for a couple of years on ‘King Kong’ so those lawyers can just go at it for a long time.”

Here is my first Open Letter to Peter Jackson, written with tongue planted firmly in cheek:

Dear Mr. Jackson,
Please let me be part of “The Hobbit.”
Please. Please. Please. Please. I will totally be your best friend.
Sincerely,
Wil Wheaton
PS- Please please please please. Thank you.

89 thoughts on “there and back again”

  1. Good luck on the audition Wil, you might not get this part but they will remember you for other projects.
    And ask Peter Jackson to let me be your stunt double on The Hobbit. Please.
    P.S. Please

  4. I can see you cast as an Elf. Definately. I could see you as Bilbo as well. But would have a problem seeing you as a Dwarf.

  5. …and you would just LOVE New Zealand Wil….I really wish he could do Hobbit now…that way we could all watch the whole lot in one sitting.

  7. Open Note to Wil Wheaton:
    Please let me be a part of you being a part of ‘The Hobbit’! I can carry your luggage…tie your shoes…apply your sunscreen…I’m versatile.

  10. Forget The Hobbit, as Jackson won’t be working on it (as you quoted) for a couple of years. You should spend your time now groveling to Joss Whedon for a part in Serenity.

  11. I know you don’t know me, but if they need someone to play a rock or assorted shrubbery in “The Hobbit”…drop my name if you get the part.

  12. Dear Mr Jackson:
    In reference to Mr. Wil Wheaton’s open letter, please, please, please cast him in The Hobbit!
    Afterall, if he can fly a starship, he can certainly take on Smaug!

  13. Wil, why not find out Peter Jackson’s email address and email that request to him instead of it being an open letter?
    I introduced some people to your blog this week. They really like your writing style, as do I. Um, I sound sucky. Keep it up man.

  14. Hmmm…you know Sean…Sean knows Peter…
    Hmmm…
    Just kidding.
    Can’t wait to read about your audition!
    Of course you made them laugh!

  16. I’m surprised he didn’t mention it, but everyone remember to check out uncle willy on Teen Titans tonight at 9pm EST!

  17. Better get on the phone to Sean Astin afterall. And I’m not kidding. Hollywood is all about who ya know. To not take advantage of that would kind of dumb.
    What part do you want to play, Wil?

  18. If you get to play a Hobbit, could I come along and play Smaug?? I don’t care if he dies in the end, I just want to breathe fire. That would be cool. PLEASE!!!!

  19. hehehehe, I live in New Zealand so you should all come down and crash at my place and we’ll head down to Wellington and stand outside Pete’s house and yodel till he comes out and tells us to bugger off and then we can push Wil forward and he can stammer out our “Mr Jackson sir, we want to be in your movie and we don’t care what we do” line.
    How about it? I figure we can get 40-50 people easy and we’ll be away.
    You guys are with me, right?

  20. Peter Jackson also said this right after the Academy Awards when he was talking to one of the E! reporters. I say it again, did you call to congratulate Sean?

  22. you should so absolutely be Bard (am I getting the name right?) God, I should be shot for not being sure of the name of the guy who shoots Smaug. But you are so him. Do what Elijah did, make a clip of yourself in the role and send it to him. Can’t really do more than that.

  23. Wil,
    I think you’d do a great job in the role of the hobbit, but aren’t you a little too tall and thin for the part? I mean, I know you’re not TALL or anything but you’re not short either. I think you’d make a better elf! Anyway, hope you hear good news on your current audition…

  25. Others have made an excellent point…call up Sean! And while you’re at it, put in a good word for Keith Coogan too.

  27. This entry made me LMAO. On any other blog the request’d be ridiculous and childish, but on this one it fits too damn well.
    Maybe there’s some justice in Hollywood. Just a little? Please?

  28. Dear Mr. Jackson,
    Please please please, please please let Wil be a Hobbit. He’d be a great addition to the Shire.
    Please please please
    Thank you for your time

  30. Wil-
    Your open letter made me laugh out loud – a lot, which is something I sorely needed this week.
    Best of luck to you on the audition.

  32. Oh man, now how are you going to casually give Sean Astin a ring? He’ll think you’re trying to get your nasty little fingers in the LOTR empire.
    Oh and by the way, pun heaveily intended.

  33. Dear Mr. Jackson (via Mr. W. Wheaton): Please oh please let me audition for the hobbit. I played Bilbo at the tender age of 15, and, although very, very much older now, I feel I really, really have what it takes to play Mr. Baggins now. Sure, I’m 42 now and a girl, but hey, what’s an actor if not versatile? Do hope you will consider my humble request (and, of course, this is not a reflection on Wil’s excellent website etc.). Am just desperate to relive the glory of days gone by. (By the way, we had a really hot guy playing Gollum, do you want his number?). Sorry, make that, do you have his number?
    P.S. Loved your films. Did any of you question why no actors from LOTR were nominated for Oscars? just asking…cause I think they should have been.
    Love,
    A fan.

  35. Do a video of yourself playing the part (as previously suggested). But the trick is that you put the video on an iPod Mini and send THAT to Mr. Pete with a note that your video is on board.
    How about the part of the king of the wood elves in Mirkwood?

  36. Dave: Wil did mention his Teen Titans appearance a couple of days ago. I had to hunt for it on Cartoon Network (it’s really weird – our cable system seems to get the West Coast feed of Cartoon Network, but TV Guide and the TV Guide Channel think we get the East Coast feed, so the times are off by three hours), but I found it. Only one line for Aqualad (Wil), but that line sounded so perfectly like Wil, I had to laugh.
    Yes, Wil should be in The Hobbit. But as who? It would seem that the best option would be as one of the company of dwarves, since the role of Bilbo seems to be already sewn up, and there aren’t any other hobbits of note in the book. The Elven-King might also be a good choice, but they’d probably want guys that look more buff for Beorn or Bard. And I wouldn’t want to see him playing a bad guy, like one of the orcs, or the money-grubbing Master of Lake-Town. Ah well, hopefully Peter Jackson will think of something!

  38. Thranduil, king of the woodelves. Perfect for wil; let me know if you need help with the video of you as Thranduil you are going to send to PJ.
    BTW, you should have kicked speedies butt. just my 2 cents.

  40. I will totally be your best friend too, and I do ALOT for best friends. Oh and anything to help out Wil. So please, please please, let Will have a part.

  42. Here’s an idea… Wil could be the young, spry wizard Radagast the Brown! With the plot somewhat rewritten of course to allow him to be Gandalf’s apprentice. I mean, if he had Gandalf’s back in Moria in Fellowship, he coulda pulled some kind of mad polarity reversal and blown that Balrog away.
    …right? 🙂

  43. Just a bit of advice, never, and I mean never, let them see you beg. For anything. Ever.
    Write a letter telling him why you would be the best for a role in that film. And then challenge him to a fight if if disagrees.

  44. Boo, only like one line for Aqualad. Until Wil rightfully appears in The Hobbit as the Beornings, Dale, Smaug, and three of the dwarves (’cause when you got wil, who else do you need?), we need to petition CN for more Aqualad! Woo!

  47. How about you as the voice of William Huggins?
    Nah, we need you in a visual role. How about Bard? That’d be a good Wheaton-ish role, I’d think…
    And speaking of Tolkien, did you call Sean yet? Heck, if you and Sean still hit it off, maybe he could put in a good word for you with Jackson about casting for The Hobbit…

  48. hey wil,
    good luck for your auditions, i hope they liked you! and, as many people have said, of course you made them laugh! you are a comic genius!!!
    I think you would be great in the Hobbit…i would love to be a part of the movie, or any other movie to be honest, but unfortunately, it will only ever be a dream! but oh, what a good dream.
    take care wil,
    hope things go well for you

  49. Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but isn’t anyone else slightly worried about Jackson doing the Hobbit? I mean, I loved the LotR movies, but I was a bit put off by the portrayal of Gimli as the short-legged comic relief of the party. Multiply that by 13 and the Hobbit is likely to turn into some kind of slapstick story (I can easily picture Thorin whacking Bombur over the head in a ‘Three Stooges’ manner).
    Still, Wil should be in it. (It’s not like this would end up as bad as Python did.) The addition of Wheaton ™ is guaranteed to improve any movie.

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