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Peter Jackson Hints At The Hobbit
Hellboy0101 writes "News.com.au is reporting that New Line Cinema is currently in talks to purchase the rights to the film adaptation of The Hobbit. There are apparently some difficulties with getting the go ahead from Tolkien's son Christopher, who is executor of the estate. When asked if New Line has approached him about the project, Jackson said he has not ruled it out, but not until after King Kong is done. 'New Line, which spent $US300million ($415 million) making the films, is already planning to continue its Rings success with an adaptation of Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.
More difficulties with the Tolkien estate were looming, said Jackson, who added that he would be keen to get involved after he finishes remaking King Kong in 2006. "New Line haven't actually talked to me about The Hobbit. I know there's difficulty about the rights, certainly if they want to talk to me about it I'd be keen," he said.'"
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the jury is still out, but jackson's loosely-based movie saga has gotten progressively worse. i could stand fellowship because of the newness of it all, but two towers, besides being hardly related to the source, was pretty boring. i'll see ROTK but i'm going in with super low expectations.
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I found a preview of what New Line plans to do with the Hobbit.
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fucking could you fucking be fucking more fucking annoying? if you were fucking trying to be fucking funny it didn't fucking work. fuck.
Tolkien sucks.
Somehow people start believing this world is real. And there is a whole hell of a lot of difference between enjoying a work and getting sucked into it. 99% of the Tolkien readers I have run into (no, let me correct that, 99.9%), have gotten lost in it and missed the bell for lunch. Reality exists. You do not live with hobbits.
Tolkien has this way of working with words. I used to think he was pretty cool for a while, until I realized what he was doing to my brain. He is sucking you into a goddamn black hole, guys. You actually get to the point where the minutiae of what orc married what nyad or what the hell ever, and how such languages were translated into human speech, and what great proclamation was made that affected how many gods..come on, the Greek mythologies were never like this.
But you are seduced into thinking that every little detail of someone's life is important, some damn talking tree that is so goddamn pretentious it would be slapped by half the oaks and all the elms I have ever had the acquaintance of, when in fact nobody's life is that important. It's an escape into illusion.
The man was extremely educated. The man also strikes me as snotty as all living hell. Pretentious as all get-out. Only an Oxford don would make you memorize that much crap, which you reasonably have to do to get through his books, or learn to care about something that is not in the real world. I give an author ten pages to get me interested in their stuff. That gives you time for the slow-developing writers as well as the one-paragraph-and-you're-hooked types.
But Tolkien maneuvers you with his words like a goddamn television commercial until you are too sodden or unthinking to care that you have been sucked into a boring, dry memorization process.
The book is one of those things that I remember from my college years as being too goddamn politically correct for anything. The cool people liked it.
You were supposed to be able to sit around and discuss it over the correct kind of beer in the correct pub. And have all the elves' names and what their nanny called them when they were kneehigh to a grasshopper (or was it a cricket? Better know.... there are those Tolkien fans who have gone back and measured....).
Sorry. I am adamantly uncool. I refuse to have my brain manipulated.
Tolkien sucks cock.
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After the first two LOTR movies, I've lost any hope that anything Jackson does will bear more than a vague resemblance (characters and overall plot). Seeing how the Saruman character is going to be left unresolved, I wonder if something significant from Hobbit will go, like maybe Bilbo finding the Ring.
Christopher Tolkien died last year, that information must be inaccurate about his executing the estate still.
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Silmarillion was crap. A long winded poor excuse at trying to capture Tolkien's talent. The previous poster had it right. He's just trying to capitalize on daddy's talents due to his own lack of ability.
No: better anyone else than him. Dear GOD, hasn't Tolkien suffered enough at this hack's hands?
By all means get everyone else from LotR involved: set design, cinematographers, score writers, but please, please, please dump Jackson and his crappy, rent-a-moron script changes.
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It would quite frankly rock??? Sorry, but if Jackson's involved with the Hobbit it'll turn out to be another hack job. I've been pretty disappointed in his 'adaptation' of the novels - he succeeded in casting the majority of his main characters out of cardboard (w/ few exceptions), the scripting is lousy, and any similarities to the universe JRRT created are passing at best. I wish you would quit encouraging Jackson. He might begin to think he has talent.
Well after having named one of his movies "The Two Towers", do you really believe that Jackson guy has any concerns about the feeling of a few wimpy New Yorkers?
Good thing not everyone measures success in terms of profit.
I thank the estate for doing their part in keeping The Hobbit out of the hands of Jackson.
I am very much in favor on making the movies, but not butchering them like Jackson have.
Of course after the FotR fiasco I really don't care anymore. I have no expectations so he can just as well butcher the lesser book The Hobbit too.
oh no, not another one, please pleeeeeeeeeease
the two towers almost made me follow cobain foosteps, i was really suffering in the dark, alone, helpless, thinking of "hitting my head with the chair on front of me", hoping a terrorist would blow the fucking theatre and release me of that pain, afraid of moving because "they surely have snipers to shoot people in their legs if they try to exit the place"... if the third one does not kill me im sure the hobbit will... have mercy please! PLEASE