"New" Tolkien book already garnering movie interest

Taking the unfinished manuscripts of The Children of Hurin has been completed by J.R.R's son, Christopher Tolkien, who claims he did not editorialize during the process.

Seeing a billion dollars out there ripe for the picking, movie studios are showing interest in adapting the book to the big screen, however the family claims to be in no hurry to do so.

Here is more on the book, a brief version of which appear in The Silmarillion can be found courtesy of wikipedia.