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New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film?
DrJimbo writes "Just in time for the 70th Anniversary of the Hobbit (published September 21, 1937) Entertainment Weekly has a 5-page article on a possible reconciliation between Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema that may pave the way for the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy to return and helm the filming of The Hobbit. It was previously reported here that Jackson would not be making the Hobbit film. The EW article says that Jackson wants to make two films: first the Hobbit in its entirety and then another film that bridges the roughly 60 years between the end of the Hobbit and the start of the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately Jackson already has a lot on his plate with filming of The Lovely Bones scheduled to start this month and a live action Tintin film in the works."
I'm interested to know if Peter Jackson will elect to star in the lead role of Bilbo.
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Please, don't film Tintin. Thanks.
Where in the constitution does it talk about British books?
only if he writes the script using a fountain pen....
(apologies to the English, I have a poor ear for accents)
Orc 1: 'E's done it agin'.
Orc 2: Wot's dat?
Orc 1: E's gone an' changed the bloody plans ag'in.
Orc 2: Piss off! Wot's 'e done this time?
Orc 1: Mr. 'igh and mighty dark lord's changed the tower top. Wants to mater'alize up thair.
Orc 2: But 'e's jus' a giant dis'm'bodied flamin' eyeball. It'll look ridik'lous!
Orc 1: Tha's wot I said! "Barad'dur'll look like a giant bleedin' lighthouse," I says. "Wot'll you be doin', guidin' ships in o'er the flamin' lakes o' lava?"
Orc 2: Cor, you didn'!
Orc 1: Yes, I says it! Right to his flamin' eyeball!
Orc 2: S'ppose that explains the singe and smoke about you. Bits're flakin' off.
Orc 1: Yes, yes it does. So I'm off t' round up the gang. Eyeball turrets for everyone.
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They can also inject the revelation that Frodo has an unusually high midichlorian count. Something has to explain the hobbits unnatural hardiness against the dark call of the ring! Why not explain it with random new science!
I was considering the impact of other directors...
Paul Verhoeven: He would probably choose some aspect of the story and hyper emphasize it. The movie would also have blatant political satire.
Michael Bay: The fight scenes would be dramatic, but we would not have any idea who was fighting or who was winning until the end when we finally got a somethings besides blurred elbows and bodies and the wide angle shot showed us the winners standing.
David Lynch: A very strange film with gollem losing an ear and sauron going on and on about mommy while taking nitro.
Joel and Ethan Coen: An offbeat humorous version with every goofy character in LOTR played up and heightened magical reality.
David Cronenberg: Would use LOTR as a metaphor to examine the nature of reality. At the end, there would be a tie-in between Sauron and current modern reality.
Stephen Chow: A rollicking humorous version of LOTR with lots of special effects. He would probably focus on the one on one fight scenes more than the big battle scenes. No doubt, Gandalf's robes would be reduced to tatters by the Balrog's first attack and we would see his long underwear for a comedy effect before they both tumbled into the abyss.
Quentin Tarantino: This hyper-kenetic, super dark version of LTR would have lots of squick scenes. The lust between Aragorn and his love interest would be played up. Harvey Keitel would appear as Aragorn. Juliette Lewis would star as Arwen.
Michael Moore: Sauron as a metaphor for corporations or the Bush presidency... The hobbits as the socialist paradise (with a scene showing how hobbits were so happy because they had socialized medicine and ate only natural food).
Woody Allen: Woody would of course be Bilbo. Back in the day Mia Farrow would have been Arwen. Someone would have an affair.
Night Shyamalan: Whatever happened during the movie-- the ending would involve some sort of massive twist. Perhaps it will turnout Sauron was so desperate to build power because he was trying to stop something even worse from happening (ala "colossus and crab").
Spike Lee: Black hobbits for sure! Probably black elves. And the orcs would be white. Sure the evilness of the "white hand" would be played up.
George Lucas: 9 hours of wonderful actors giving horrible performances... true to the plot and great special effect scenes tho.
Clint Eastwood: Man.. I like his work but can't imagine what his version would be like. He might be aragorn tho.
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I think if people consider what we could have had.... They will realize how grateful we should be that Jackson took this on.
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