Victory!

 

It’s almost all I can say!

My brain is so befuddled with joy at the moment, I’m finding it exceedingly hard to express myself. THE HOBBIT WILL BE MADE IN NEW ZEALAND!!!

Of course, this is as it was always meant to be, but still! Lately I’ve had to deal with essays, exams, job applications, CV’s, illness, limited entry course applications and so on, and to top it off, the whole Hobbit ordeal, jeopardising the entire future of the NZ film industry which I’m hoping to one day be a part of. NOT COOL.

Then this.

Whoa, the relief is like a physical weight taken off my shoulders, leaving me with a sense of great exhaustion now that I realise how heavily it actually weighed me down. I’m so happy my head is spinning. I’ll blame this on fatigue, but I actually shed a few tears when I logged on to Twitter and my brain recorded the words ‘HOBBIT’ and ‘NZ’ in the same sentence along with a whole lot of exclamation marks, and I understood that it was carrying a positive message. Although I am tired beyond words right now, I wish I could go out into the streets of Wellington and drink and dance and sing all night long. I’m sure there will be plenty of other people celebrating tonight, but alas, I will have to postpone my celebration.

After a long and bumpy road to gain the green light, the Hobbit production is finally on its way. With Sir Peter Jackson as director, shooting will begin in February next year, right here in Middle-Earth.

Everything is as it should be…