Hobbit movie to be made without Peter Jackson

[Guest alex]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

[Park Life 70]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

...there is one excellent scene where they meet the 'savages' living on the island...They are genuinely quite scary...Goes downhill after that.

[Guest alex]

I love 'Bad Taste' and 'Braindead' mind.

[Park Life 70]

I love 'Bad Taste' and 'Braindead' mind.

 

 

[Guest alex]

I love 'Bad Taste' and 'Braindead' mind.

 

 

I'm being serious.

[Park Life 70]

I love 'Bad Taste' and 'Braindead' mind.

 

 

I'm being serious.

 

 

Yes.

[Tooj 17]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

...there is one excellent scene where they meet the 'savages' living on the island...They are genuinely quite scary...Goes downhill after that.

Howay Parky you know you came close to weeping when they were dancing on the ice.

[Park Life 70]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

...there is one excellent scene where they meet the 'savages' living on the island...They are genuinely quite scary...Goes downhill after that.

Howay Parky you know you came close to weeping when they were dancing on the ice.

 

 

Shhh...

[Wavey Davey 0]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

 

Echoed from me.

 

This is the sort of thing the LARPers love.

[Meenzer 13990]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

 

Echoed from me.

 

This is the sort of thing the LARPers love.

 

You've really got it in for the LARPers, haven't you? Did one of them cast a "miniaturise" spell on your willy or something?

[JawD 31]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

 

Echoed from me.

 

This is the sort of thing the LARPers love.

 

You've really got it in for the LARPers, haven't you? Did one of them cast a "miniaturise" spell on your willy or something?

 

and fuck me it actually worked

[RlCO 0]

What's a LARPer?

[khay 8]

What's a LARPer?

http://www.google.com/search?q=LARPers&amp...lient=firefox-a

[Wavey Davey 0]

I wouldn't go that far. Overlong and overrated though. And I can't even bring myself to try 'King Kong'.

 

 

Echoed from me.

 

This is the sort of thing the LARPers love.

 

You've really got it in for the LARPers, haven't you? Did one of them cast a "miniaturise" spell on your willy or something?

 

and fuck me it actually worked

 

 

Only just a little bit, mind.

 

I don't hate them, just trying to start a trend of LARPer-bashing.

[Jimbo 133]

Sir Ian McKellen back as Gandalf

 

 

Sir Ian McKellen has confirmed he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the film remake of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit.

 

"Yes, it's true," he told Empire magazine. "It's not a part that you turn down. I loved playing Gandalf."

 

Two Hobbit films are planned for release in 2010 and 2011. They will be prequels to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson.

 

Guillermo del Toro has been named as the director of the movies, to be made back-to-back in New Zealand.

 

"I spoke to Guillermo in the very room that Peter Jackson offered me the part and he confirmed that I would be reprising the role," Sir Ian said.

 

He also said del Toro would be starting the script in about six weeks after he has finished filming current project, Hellboy 2.

 

According to studio New Line, the first film will be an adaptation of The Hobbit and the second will be an original story focusing on the 60 years between the book and the beginning of the Rings trilogy.

 

"As to how it's going to work over two films and what going to happen on screen, well Guillermo has not got down to working out the major details yet - I can tell you it's going to be amazing though," Sir Ian said.

[Bizza 105]

Nice one, hard to imagine anyone else playing Gandalf now. Hopefully they'll get Hugo Weaving back to play Elrond again too.

Edited April 30, 2008 by Bizza

[Park Life 70]

What a pack of overblown shit those films are.

[Happy Face 29]

Anyone that can get through the books deserves a share of Tolkien's estate tbh. Unreadable shite imo.

 

Never read a single page of any of it and they say the films were worse.

 

So you've seen them now.

 

[Park Life 70]

Anyone that can get through the books deserves a share of Tolkien's estate tbh. Unreadable shite imo.

 

Never read a single page of any of it and they say the films were worse.

 

So you've seen them now.

 

 

 

 

Maybe.

[Happy Face 29]

Anyone that can get through the books deserves a share of Tolkien's estate tbh. Unreadable shite imo.

 

Never read a single page of any of it and they say the films were worse.

 

So you've seen them now.

 

 

 

 

Maybe.

 

 

You should watch them. They're a fantastic achievement.

[Tooj 17]

Parky's great like.

[Happy Face 29]

Del Toro's out....

 

Here's what Guillermo del Toro told me four years ago, in an interview at Cannes after the premiere of "Pan's Labyrinth": "I don't like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits -- I've never been into that at all. I don't like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff."

 

Yes, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, but maybe del Toro should have stuck with that view all along. Two years after rearranging his family life and career and putting about a dozen other films on hold to move to New Zealand and direct a two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" for Peter Jackson, del Toro has now officially quit the project. Or semi-officially but not quite totally quit the project; he's still listed as a co-writer, along with Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and whoever else is hanging around the production offices in Wellington.

 

As Steven Zeitchik explains in the Los Angeles Times, this is more a matter of Wall Street fallout and the uncertain future of MGM (which holds the rights to "The Hobbit") than "creative differences." Despite vigorous denials from all concerned, the tormented and tortuous effort to film Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" prequel is clearly in jeopardy of collapsing altogether -- as other MGM films, including the next James Bond feature, already have. The current incarnation of the long-troubled MGM is buried under almost $4 billion in corporate debt and is for sale, presumably at a bargain-basement price. Until that situation is resolved, there will be no start date for "The Hobbit," which was supposed to begin shooting later this year, during the Southern Hemisphere summer.

 

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I was skeptical about this whole "Hobbit" thing from the beginning; I think it was a cul-de-sac in del Toro's career path, and he's better off developing his own projects. Personally, I'd much rather see his grotesque fairy-tale vision applied to such proposed ideas as new adaptations of "Frankenstein" or "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" or Roald Dahl's "The Witches." I'd gladly give up the "Hobbit" movie forever, in fact, if it meant getting to see del Toro's hypothetical versions of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness," or Marvel Comics' "Doctor Strange." (You can't accuse the guy of lacking ideas, ambition or a work ethic.)

 

But let's play along with the Internets, people. Presuming MGM, Warner Bros. and Peter Jackson are telling the truth about the current situation, they're going to hire a new "Hobbit" director forthwith. It has to be somebody who seems capable of handling epic fantasy, obviously -- but also somebody who doesn't mind being the second choice (if not third or fourth choice) and who doesn't have much to lose in taking on a project with a 50 percent probability of total implosion and a 100 percent probability of relentless scrutiny from blogging Elves, Dwarves and Goblins. Let's review the leading candidates. Chime in, please!

 

Peter Jackson -- Could the "Lord of the Rings" director be "pulling a Leno," in the Twitter-phrase of indieWIRE's Eric Kohn? Signals vary. Jackson's manager told Entertainment Weekly that directing "The Hobbit" is "not something he can consider at this time as he has other commitments to other projects," which comes under the heading of a non-denial. Over the weekend Jackson told the Dominion Post, a New Zealand newspaper, that taking the reins himself was not out of the question: "If that's what I have to do to protect Warner Bros.' investment, then obviously that's one angle which I'll explore."

 

What all this means in English: Jackson sees himself as a grandiose, Lucas-scale producer these days, and is busy developing two "Tintin" films, with Steven Spielberg directing the first one. (Wake me when that franchise has come and gone, please.) He'd really rather not get his hands dirty on this one, but if the investors insist, he'll direct at least one of the "Hobbit" movies. Fanboys around the globe, needless to say, would explode like the TV commentators in David Cronenberg's "Scanners."

 

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/...l_direct_hobbit

[JawD 31]

[Cid_MCDP 0]

Wasn't Del Toro associated with an At The Mountains of Madness movie at some point a year or two ago? Now there's a movie I'd love to see. That's my favorite Lovecraft story.