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Hobbit Movie in Four Years?
Antarctic Lemur writes "At the Powerhouse Museum LOTR Exhibition in Sydney, Peter Jackson has said a film version of The Hobbit is three years away at least. Reasons for the delay include the sale of MGM, which part-owns the movie rights to The Hobbit, and Jackson's recently filed suit against New Line Cinema, the other part-owner. Jackson is currently filming King Kong at his new facility in Wellington, NZ. Slashdot readers will also be interested in the high security planned for King Kong's pre-release screenings."
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Another King Kong movie.
We need it as much as another Police Academy movie.
In other news, King Kong vs. the Shire, coming soon to a theatre near you, Spring 2010
My plans to kill myself have been postponed by at least 4 years.
You can have all the security in the world and you can't keep king kong down, the chains, the fences. Nature always will find a way, he just likes climbing tall buildings grasping girls in his clutches. We just need to accept that and move on.
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There will be a "Special Extended Director's Service Pack" on DVD.
Pirate copies are already available in China.
But you know what they say : "You wait
sits down and starts singing about Gold.
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You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall to the east there is the round green door you see
the wooden chest.
Gandalf. Gandalf is carrying a curious map.
Jackson.
Gandalf gives the curious map to you.
Jackson waits.
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
1. I ,for one, welcome our new hobbit overlords.
2. In Soviet Russia the hobbits own you.
3a Make LOTR Trilogy
3b Sue New Line Cinema
3c Make Hobbit
3d ?????
3e Profit!
4. Imagine a beowulf cluster of Hobbits!
5. Hobbits? Do they run Linux?
6. Hobbits are real, Netcraft confirms it.
7. Didn't you RTFA??
8. All your hobbits are belong to us.
9. I have no hobbits, you insensitive clod!
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born - Ronald Reagan
Would you prefer a Donkey Kong movie with Mario climbing ladders and jumping over barrels for 2 hours?
The obligatory scream:
O ooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
AaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooOOOOO
well you have 2 years and 3 months to find a girl and get her pregnant.
The Motion Picture Association's New Zealand representative, Kevin Holland, said the industry took seriously the job of keeping movies secure from pirates.
They hired an 800 lb. gorilla.
It will make the movie seem special.
"Yeah, I heard they kept the raw footage on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. Must be something special, no one would bother to guard a bad movie like that. Better go and see it."
It's just a marketing trick, nothing more.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Just make sure to let me know about it when Halle Berry is going to the premiere.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
40 years from now, we will have moved beyond flimsy CGI similucra. By 2045, genetic engineeering will have advanced to the point where you will have an actor fully mutated into a full-sized King Kong fighting an actor fully mutated into Godzilla. Generic modification of actors is the next frontier of Hollywood SFX technology.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I heard it once remarked that the Silmarillion oughtn't be made into a feature film, but rather fake documentary-type thing. You know, stock footage of elven soldiers preparing for war, home movies of Beren and Luthien, and after-the-fact interviews with the few people who survived and stayed in Middle-Earth. I can see it now: Sauron: "Well, Morgoth (or Melkor, as he liked to be called) wasn't so much of a bad chap. Sure, he wreaked havoc across Middle-Earth and caused the Two Trees to wilt, but he wasn't *evil*... just misunderstood. He only wanted to be loved and respected. *sniff* He used to call me, 'kid.' 'Take care of yourself, kid' he'd say. I still miss him sometimes. *sniff*" Tom Bombadil: "Truth be, I missed the whole Dagor Bragollach bit. Heard it was quite the battle. I got meself these new yellow boots, though. I just wished they matched my jacket..."
So she killed herself, then?
Hobbits n,pl: A short people who, upon seeing Natalie Portman pour hot grits down her pants, would think "What a waste of grits".
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
A friend of mine really did put off suicide until she knew how Star Wars turned out
... .. a new hope.
You could say it gave her..
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
As far as Bilbo goes, I would wrap in as much of the Simarillion as is possible.
Or if they cast Ice T as the king of the wood elves he could rap in as much of the silmarillion as possible.
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!