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DeepIron
12-18-07, 03:25 PM
Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached an agreement and Jackson will act as executive producer! :cool:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/18/film.thehobbit.ap/index.html
Personally, I've always thought his concept and execution of the LOTR Trilogy was first rate and always wished for him to be involved in the Hobbit as well. :up:
DeepIron
12-18-07, 04:42 PM
Nah, it's cool... sometimes I just miss stuff... :damn:
bookworm_020
12-18-07, 05:10 PM
Will NEw Zealand be used again for filming??? I am gald that Peter Jackson is involved in the project, which means that WETA will be doing the effects again:up:
DeepIron
12-18-07, 05:13 PM
You might keep an eye on this site: http://www.theonering.net/ they usually have the scoop on LOTR news and such.
I haven't run across anything yet about the location. I too hope it'll be NZ! :cool:
DeepIron
12-18-07, 05:22 PM
Oh wow! I just caught something I overlooked in the news release, TWO Hobbit films are to be done. The Hobbit and a sequel to the Hobbit. :cool:
Dudes! Are we going to see The Simarillion as the sequel? I hope so! The Simarillion is the history of Middle Earth BEFORE the Hobbit! :cool:
</rubs hands in glee>
mrbeast
12-18-07, 05:37 PM
Sweeeeeeeeeeet:up:
mr chris
12-18-07, 05:40 PM
It will be very hard to live up to the mark that the LOTR set.
Though with Jackson at on board things are heading in the right direction.
DeepIron
12-18-07, 05:45 PM
It will be very hard to live up to the mark that the LOTR set.
Though with Jackson at on board things are heading in the right direction.
Right on... Jackson's vision of Middle Earth was so cool in the Trilogy that it was practically inconceivable that anyone else could "work the magic" in his place. There were a lot of LOTR fans who were really upset about MGMs intention to film the Hobbit without Jackson's directorial vision.
I for one would like someone else to do it. The first LOTR was pretty good, the second not so good, and the third was a big let down.
I frowned everytime Legolas stared at the horizon and whispered "they are coming ..." in the long face shots that reminded me alot about day time soaps.
Not trying to troll here, I just dont like the way my all time favourite growing-up books were converted to the big screen.
mrbeast
12-18-07, 05:55 PM
It will be very hard to live up to the mark that the LOTR set.
Though with Jackson at on board things are heading in the right direction.
Right on... Jackson's vision of Middle Earth was so cool in the Trilogy that it was practically inconceivable that anyone else could "work the magic" in his place. There were a lot of LOTR fans who were really upset about MGMs intention to film the Hobbit without Jackson's directorial vision.
Yes I think Jackson's interpretation of Tolkein's world was spot on IMO:up: I think the author would have approved if he had seen it.
LOTR could so easily have been a corny flop. But Peter Jackson made a triumph out of it!:yep:
A shame George Lucas couldn't have done the same with the new Star Wars trilogy:nope:
DeepIron
12-18-07, 06:10 PM
@Stabiz... It's understandable given the immense amount of detail the Trilogy contains. Frankly, I think it was easier to do The Fellowship of the Ring because it's storyline was mostly self-contained in the first book. The second and third books held much more detail and subplot than the first, IMO. I have the extended DVD versions and it's amazing how much was cut from the films to bring the running time down. In a way, if they left in the deleted scenes, the continuity in the story could have been improved a bit...
A shame George Lucas couldn't have done the same with the new Star Wars trilogy. I'm right there with you on that one MB. The newer episodes were very disappointing to me as well. I always though that if George would have relied more on storyline and plot rather than eye candy, the newer films would have been much better.
I recently read a Top 10 list of the worse "cinema love relationships". Anakin Skywalker and Pricess Amadalla were right up at the top. No chemistry, no involvement, no fire... boring...
I for one would like someone else to do it. The first LOTR was pretty good, the second not so good, and the third was a big let down.
I frowned everytime Legolas stared at the horizon and whispered "they are coming ..." in the long face shots that reminded me alot about day time soaps.
Not trying to troll here, I just dont like the way my all time favourite growing-up books were converted to the big screen.
Well I disagree, if anything the last was the best...but at least all 3 were filmes at the same time. Fact is it is hard if not impossible to create a film exactly like a book...
kiwi_2005
12-18-07, 06:59 PM
Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached an agreement and Jackson will act as executive producer! :cool:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/18/film.thehobbit.ap/index.html
Personally, I've always thought his concept and execution of the LOTR Trilogy was first rate and always wished for him to be involved in the Hobbit as well. :up:
Thats great news, alot of people here applied for stand ins when Peter was making the LOTR movies - heaps of common kiwi folk were in those movies during the major battles - about 200 real stand ins with the rest computer generated. This time round i aint going to miss the opportunty if The Hobbit is made in NZ im going to put my name down for a part as a 'stand in' If so i'll see if i can convince Peter to have the words Subsim.com embedded into my leather armor or even better engraved on my sword :D
DeepIron
12-18-07, 07:05 PM
Four hour epic. Yeah... <sigh of contentment> Ain't it great!!!
mrbeast
12-18-07, 07:07 PM
Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached an agreement and Jackson will act as executive producer! :cool:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/18/film.thehobbit.ap/index.html
Personally, I've always thought his concept and execution of the LOTR Trilogy was first rate and always wished for him to be involved in the Hobbit as well. :up:
Thats great news, alot of people here applied for stand ins when Peter was making the LOTR movies - heaps of common kiwi folk were in those movies during the major battles - about 200 real stand ins with the rest computer generated. This time round i aint going to miss the opportunty if The Hobbit is made in NZ im going to put my name down for a part as a 'stand in' If so i'll see if i can convince Peter to have the words Subsim.com embedded into my leather armor or even better engraved on my sword :D
LOL! Cool! :cool:
Torplexed
12-18-07, 08:25 PM
Don't know who will be playing the younger Bilbo, but Andy Serkis must return as Gollum/Smeagol. Who else could do it with such craven creepiness?;)
Frankly, I felt Lucas' new Star Wars prequel trilogy, mediorce as it was, suffered even more from being released in the same time span as LOTR. Comparisons were inevitable.
http://express.howstuffworks.com/gif/gollum-4.jpg
The Simarillion is the history of Middle Earth BEFORE the Hobbit! :cool:
And one very hard to read book!
Oh wow! I just caught something I overlooked in the news release, TWO Hobbit films are to be done. The Hobbit and a sequel to the Hobbit. :cool:
Dudes! Are we going to see The Simarillion as the sequel? I hope so! The Simarillion is the history of Middle Earth BEFORE the Hobbit! :cool:
</rubs hands in glee>
I doubt they would make the Silmarillion into a movie. It would probably be 7 hours long... I'm pretty sure they're just breaking The Hobbit into two different parts, which is great because it means more details and less things cut out :up:.
I don't know if it will need breaking up. It's a small book, probably half of one of the LOTR's books.
-That's about half as long as the fellowship of the ring... Maybe a bit longer, but I think a 3 hour movie would be enough. Maybe they want 2 'normal' length films instead of the long epics/bad for cinema style that LOTR were.
I only saw one in the cinema because I couldn't sit that long without a toilet or smoke break. I do have the extended versions of all of them though.
-I have hairy feet like a hobbit.
DeepIron
12-18-07, 11:38 PM
The Simarillion would indeed be difficult to translate to film... and as Reaves points out, difficult enough now just to read. Still, as a die hard Tolkien reader, I find the notion interesting.
You might keep an eye on this site: http://www.theonering.net/ they usually have the scoop on LOTR news and such.
I haven't run across anything yet about the location. I too hope it'll be NZ! :cool:
I'm hoping for Wisconsin :lol:.
You might keep an eye on this site: http://www.theonering.net/ they usually have the scoop on LOTR news and such.
I haven't run across anything yet about the location. I too hope it'll be NZ! :cool:
I'm hoping for Wisconsin :lol:.
:rotfl: They could use Lake Geneva for Long Lake... :hmm: And Wilmot could be the Lonely Mountain! It's perfect!
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