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Peter Jackson Says "Hobbit" Movie In The Works
Patik writes "'Lord of the Rings' Director Peter Jackson is planning to film 'The Hobbit,' according to this Associated Press article. Jackson, who is currently filming 'King Kong', is waiting for New Line and MGM, the two studios with rights to the film, to battle it out for rights to make the prequel. Jackson also mentions wanting the movie to feel just like the LOTR trilogy, including having Ian McKellen return as Gandalf." (This is better than just hinting.)
Just so they dont make the Simalarion. That was freaking painful!
"Hand me the bullet-shooty-thing and a box of little hurts" -Overheard on a USMC Rifle range
In related news, Peter Jackson's home just imploded due to excessive Oscar pressure.
~To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. -Yann Martel
When can I download it?
"Well, it took an hour to write, I thought it would take an hour to read."
While the thought of Bilbo climbing the Empire State Building holding Fay Wray is rather entertaining, I think it might disturb the purists.
Good job, genius. Ian Holm is the guy who played Bilbo in the trilogy. Ian McKellen played Gandalf. I know it's hard to grasp that more than one person in the world can be named "Ian," so I sympathize with your idiocy.
*cough* he's not lucas *cough*
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Oh, yes, I just love what L.A. is doing with smog lately. It's simply incredible. Words can't describe it. Far better than Houston or Mexico City could ever hope for.
oh yeah, and Elrond but a little makup can probably take care of an extra 5 years on Agent Smith.
Blaze a trail to the New World
What about Hobbits: The Battle for Endor?
Why don't you embrace your slashbotness instead of living in a dreamworld?
Wait...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
Unless they add a talking pie character in which case it might have a chance.
Considering the lack of massive war scenes in "The Hobbit", maybe they'll be able to make the movie for a sum smaller than the EU's 10 year budget?
Be an elitist - read Slashdot at +4.
The Hobbit elves:
"Fa, la, la, la lolly"
LoTR elves:
"Are time is done, woes."
Las Vegas Elvis:
"Do you take the woman to be your lawfully wedded wife"
San Fransisco Elvis:
"Do you take the woman to be your lawfully wedded husband"
Elvis Costello:
"Hey man, leave me out of you dumb Elvish thing."
Abbot and Castello:
"Who's on first..."
and so on
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if Liv Tyler lives in Laketown and is given credit for killing Smaug I'm out of there.....
I just hope Ian Mckellar is still around to play gandalf when the time comes.
Doesn't matter. They can just get Mary Alice to replace him, and then throw in some jive bullshit about why he looks different and how "there was a cost".
Then again, judging from the senselessness of some of Jackson's alterations from the books, we can probably expect Tom Bombadil to show up in this one.
Well, I don't think Jackson would have a problem cutting that scene out. He's had some practice.
Hey, I'm not saying they did a bad job, some of it was frickin amazing, especially the scenery IMHO. I'm just saying that when I hear people talking about how CG actors/sets are now a functional replacement for real actors/sets I can't help but think of those little things I still notice. Elijah Wood may be a stumpy little man-boy, but I never thought "gee, his skin texture looks kinda unrealistic" or "no real man-boy would move like that."
Plus no-one ever thinks of all the unemployed puppets that CG is producing... Falcor and the cast of Labyrinth (except Bowie) are all queued up down at the unemployment office thanks to Weta.
Read Pynchon.
How many ending will this one have?
Ironic. I mean we are talkin' bout hobbits here, my precious.
Argh! I wish I could still mod in this thread so I could have modded you "-1, Mentally Disturbing".
two studios with rights to the film, to battle it out for rights to make the prequel.
In other words, waiting for eight dozen corporate executives and lawyers to agree who gets paid how much and when?
Buy the book.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
At the end when Bilbo returns to the Shire he encounters a number of Hobbits in the process of auctioning off his possessions.
;)
well hell we can just cut the ending short like we did with the scouring of the shire.
"I DARE you to make less sense!"
Odd. I read that as "Hobbits: The Battle for Ender." Ender, as in Ender's Game. Hobbits floating in weightlessness chambers and shooting at each other with laser guns. And controlling wars against other alien races in realtime millions of lightyears away (happily violating causality as they go).
In other words, behaving like the actual Adolf Hitler behaved in WWI.
Uh, Ugmo, If you hadn't noticed, the Trolls are actually in the first movie - the hobbits take some rest beneath their stoney visages. They don't look like the cave troll, and frankly look more like the soccor-hooligan-sounding trolls that JRRT wrote into the hobbit. The important thing to remember is that the Hobbit was intended as more of a childrens story, there is more comic relief and adventure and less legend and world building. I think one of the trolls names was Bob...
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal...
Although I found it weird in the movie that Gollum didn't age since Bilbo took the ring those decades ago. But Bilbo had aged considerably between leaving the ring for Frodo and setting out to the Grey Havens.
Gollum was so consumed with The Ring that he was like Sauron, only without all the cool powers. Basically, if the ring died, Gollum died. As long as it lived, he lived. As Gandalf said in the books, at least, Gollum's fate was tied to the ring for better or for worse.
Of course, falling headfirst into a pool of liquid hot magma (cue Dr. Evil finger to the mouth) is for worse...
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
Hollywood is more smoke and mirrors than anyone really realizes. Look how young they were able to make Ian McDiarmid look to play Palpatine in the new star wars movies. And how young they made Goldie Hawn look when she played Imhotep in The Mummy movies.
...allowing them to go back and redo the Gollum and other CG shots (Warg attack, anyone?) that weren't quite there yet but were damn close, and repackage them all in a super quadrilogy set.
Would I whore out and buy it? Hell yeah, I would.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Yes, Serkis really is more human in dimensions than Gollum.
I saw a list of movies in a joke trailer released before the Fellowship of the Ring was out.
I think it's this one.
I think it wasn't hosted on modernhumorist when I saw it first.
I posted this list in a previous post, but can't find it. (Not subscriber)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Christmas 2001)
The Two Towers (Cristmas 2002)
The Third One (Christmas 2003)
Lord of the Rings: Episode 1 - The Hobbit (Christmas 2005)
The Fellowship of the Ring: Special Edition (Christmas 2006)
The Book of Lost Tales (Christmas 2007)
Scribbles in Tolkien's Math Book (Hannukah 2009)
Dude, Where's My Ring? (Christmas 2010)
What Hobbits Want (Christmas 2011)
Bilbo Brockovich (Christmas 2012)
All the Pretty Hobbits (Christmas 2013)
O, Bilbo, Where Art Thou? (Christmas 2014)
Crouching Gollum, Hidden Balrog (Christmas 2015)
Orc by Orcwest (Christmas 2017)
I mean, it's no great feat to predict that Peter Jackson might make The Hobbit, but if all those pan out, I promise to eat my right sock.
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His son was in the RAF while still a child?