Peter Jackson has been on the shame list since “King Kong.”

He has always come off as self-important and needs to be in charge of everything. Now, he’s trying to bring “The Hobbit” to the big screen. Sound awesome? Hardly.

Entertainment Weekly reported at the beginning of October that New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson have buried the hatchet over “The Hobbit.” The original squabble was over money. It was a battle of who-could-waste-more-time, and New Line Cinema may have met their match in the pretentious Jackson.

However, it now seems there is a green light for the project, and fans of Middle Earth can rest easy. But both parties in this feud have ignored film mythology when Ian Malcolm, (Jeff Goldblum) of 1993’s “Jurassic Park,” showed that people “are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!” The question is not if Jackson can make the movie, but will it be worth it?

Even people who love “Lord of the Rings” should not be excited for this mainly because of the lessons the world learned from “Star Wars.” The world received three prequels to George Lucas’ definition of the trilogy as a concept, and most fans will tell you they would have rather kept those first three episodes up to the imagination.

We don’t need another “Lord of the Rings” movie. “The Hobbit” is a prequel, and while it should have been immortalized by Jackson before any other movie, it wasn’t.

It is far too late to go back and just throw some money at a project and hope it will be OK. Jackson did a quality job with the “Lord of the Rings,” but the problem is the bitter taste from “King Kong” still lingers. It was a monumental endeavor to make a black-and-white campy classic into an almost three-hour epic (especially when Jack Black competes for screen time with a computer-generated gorilla).

People would expect something entirely different than what Mr. Jackson can provide. The world needs less three-hour epics about books. Some of those movies can be good, but the odds aren’t on the viewers’ side.

It’s called a trilogy for a reason, Peter Jackson. Don’t hurt the fans of the series by putting out another movie that nobody will watch until it hits the “free movies” section of On Demand. You had a time where you ruled the world, but that time is over, so you might need to take the backseat to the other sub-par directors of the future.

What is M. Night Shyamalan doing these days?