12-18-2007, 11:51 PM | #1 |
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The Hobbit is Truly Official...
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2007/...ck-to-mid.html
And there's dozens more links, if you google "The Hobbit movie". This is awesome news.
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12-19-2007, 04:26 PM | #2 | |
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Here's one of the articles. Awesome news!!!
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12-19-2007, 05:31 PM | #3 |
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Horrible, horrible news. PJ again...
Be preparad to see the Eye of Sauron rolling out of Mirkwood all the way to Barad Dur. Be prepared for helpless pathetic Bilbo and pathethic Dwarves being saved by Snow-White (Arwen). Be prepared for Thranduil's Elves beating the Dwarves senseless. and 13 Dwarves instead of one - 13 times more gut-humor. Will PJ again bring Philippa Boyens into it? She is at the bottom of my list of favorite people, even below PJ himself. Last edited by Gordis : 12-19-2007 at 05:32 PM. |
12-19-2007, 05:44 PM | #4 |
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Very cool!
It may not be perfect, but it'll be better than nothing. And if you don't like the idea, don't go!
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12-19-2007, 05:59 PM | #5 |
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"Nothing" is better: when there is nothing there is hope that one day a decent movie will be made.
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12-19-2007, 08:07 PM | #6 |
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I'd love to see a Hobbit movie being made, but I am experiencing a bit of dread regarding that Hobbit sequel. What on earth are they going to put into it? I wasn't too keen on the inserted scenes in LoTR, so an entire, undefined sequel seems to be just asking for trouble...
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12-19-2007, 08:36 PM | #8 |
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I suppose you could go into some detail about Gandalf and Aragorn's adventures, though it would have to be largely created. I'd think that Númenor and the Last Alliance would be more interesting, if you wanted to delve into that kind of territory, but who knows?
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I'd prefer a two-parter Hobbit to a single Hobbit movie and an undefined sequel.
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12-19-2007, 08:37 PM | #10 |
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A longer film would let you develop more stuff, like the White Council. I'd love Saruman shown as the noble leader of the Council...or at least semi-noble, considering that already he'd been tempted by the Ring.
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War of the Worlds, for example, had two versions made a few years back. The "hollywood" one, and another lesser-known version that was very true to the original book, which the older 50s one wasn't either. There's hope!
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12-19-2007, 09:45 PM | #13 | |
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I'm a little (okay, a LOT) concerned that he wants to make 2 movies - one based on the Hobbit, and one purely made up to 'fill in the gaps' between the two movie time-frames. Hmm.
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12-19-2007, 09:52 PM | #15 |
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Did you folks learn nothing from the LOTR movies? These will be movies "based on" The Hobbit. They will not be "The Hobbit." If you can't let go, you'll only be unhappy again. It's like some of you are masochists that actually want that outcome for yourselves! John Steinbeck wrote, "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." Same with someone else's movies, seems to me. Just let go and enjoy the show.
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12-19-2007, 10:41 PM | #16 |
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i have to agree with jon s.
i enjoyed the trilogy of movies because they brought my favorite literature of all time onto the big screen. true, i was a tad.... angered (an understatement) at the changes and inaccuracies that were made, but i eventually swallowed my misgivings because i realized how many more people were brought into tolkien-fandom. i work in a library, and i can't even begin to tell you how many people started checking out the books- people that never would have read them otherwise- because they were inspired to do so by the movies. i think it's wonderful that now 'the hobbit' will be getting the same attention! it gets the name of "Tolkien" on people's lips! it brings him to the general (and oft-times illiterate) populace! think of the NEW new generation of LotR fans that it will form! so yeah, having said all this, i'm sure i'll be right here with all the other die-hards ripping them apart and saying what an injustice they did to the book, but i'll never say i wish they didn't make them. i'm glad for the publicity- even if it's not entirely accurate. at least it will inspire people to read the books and find out for themselves how much better the story is as Tolkien intended it.
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12-19-2007, 11:00 PM | #17 |
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Stupid!!!
Stupid two movie idea. Make the frickin hobbit and that's it. What...he didn't learn from the first movie not to change work of tolkien (atleast he shouldn't).
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... btw, as soon as i read the good news in my TORN newsletter, this imediate happiness fell over me and i haven't stopped bouncing around ever since.
i'm engaged (in case i hadn't mentioned it before) and i'm getting married in 2010, the same year the hobbit movie's due to come out. so i've already informed my fiancee that if our wedding date coincides with the release date of the movie, we might have a slight problem... he doesn't seem too keen on spending our wedding night at the midnight showing...
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12-20-2007, 12:45 PM | #20 |
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If they bring together tLOTR and TH, though, that's not changing the work of Tolkien. It's doing what he never had the chance to do.
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