MGM and Warner Near On Deal For Hobbit Films

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MGM and Warner Near On Deal For Hobbit Films

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 4, 2010 @03:44AM from the it's-precious-to-me dept.

Jamie found an NYT story that says "After months of negotiation and delay, Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are on the verge of an agreement that would allow the director Peter Jackson to begin shooting a two-part version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit early next year." The production has struggled recently with issues with unions, and a fire.

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Peter jackson... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-04 04:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Another one of my childhood favorite story just died by the hands of that moron.
1. Re:Peter jackson... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-04 04:52 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Agreed. Tom Bombadil doesn't even fit well with the book IMO. They seem like they were just shoved in there as if you already had a story from A to Z, but then later decided to add an E2 and E3 with a tone almost different from the whole book.
  The movies are wonderful and keep the story moving.
  The only issue with Saruman is, IIRC, he wasn't shown dying in the theatrical release but only in the extended scenes. But even in the theatrical release it made it seem that he was at least defeated and kept under guard.
2. Re:Peter jackson... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-04 05:23 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  I would go further: the books are written in an awful style and full of ideological bullshit, while Jackson have achieved pretty epic movies from them.
  The book are for kids who can't read real ones.
3. Re:Peter jackson... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-04 05:55 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  the movie stripped out just about everything that made the hobbits what they are in the books - in the film they were just little humans. ok, so they remembered the hairy feet. nice detail that.
  it's pretty obvious that the LOTR films represents a complete and utter betrayal of the books - right from the start. By the last film it was all so saccharin and just plain wrong that it was sickening to watch.
  there's no point going into how jackson fouled it up - unless you're not really the 'reading type' then it's obvious.
  suffice to say that to reduce such a great story to that fat sodomite repeating 'come on master frodo' over and over, and in slo mo, was utterly criminal.
  i seem to remember that after king kong (another pile of crap) jackson said he wasn't going to make any more movies at all. what a surprise that he turned out to be lying and wanted to share more of his vision with the world!
  at least uwe boll doesn't believe that he is any good, and stays away from decent material.
resolution with union by Krau+Ming · 2010-10-04 04:00 · Score: 1, Troll

"The production has struggled recently with issues with Unions, and a fire." However, production has resumed smoothly following the ritualistic burning of the union leaders at the stake.
Re:As I recall... by corbettw · 2010-10-04 04:07 · Score: 0, Troll

The Hobbit was the most boring of the Tolkien books, but hey, I'm all for a movie!
Isn't that like saying the Pacific Ocean is the most wet of the oceans?

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Hopefully Jackson Will Die Before by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-04 04:50 · Score: -1, Troll

Sickening to think what that talentless hack Jackson will do to the Hobbit after how badly he butchered the LotR story.
Hopefully the fat fuck will die of a heart attack before filming starts and we can get someone who will actually bother to READ the actual source material before working on the film version...
Re:I need glasses by JWSmythe · 2010-10-04 04:51 · Score: 0, Troll

You've never tried to choreograph a dance routine with a dozen unicorns and walking trees, have you? It might sound like fun and games, but it's not.
The fire was purely an accident I tell you. It had nothing to do with that backtalking birch. I told her if she didn't shut her hole, she'd get what was coming to her, but nooooo. nooooo. A guy can only take so much I tell you.
(ohhh, if we could only post the pictures inline, it would make this so much funnier)

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I hated the Lord of the Rings movies by elrous0 · 2010-10-04 05:38 · Score: -1, Troll

I'm not a troll here, I just felt that someone should say it. At the risk of losing my geek card, I found both the books and movies boring as hell. Randall in Clerks 2 pretty much sums up my feelings--just a lot of walking. The story never even made any sense to me either. Just seemed like everyone chasing after some lame ring whose only powers were to turn people invisible and turn everyone wearing it into an obsessive addict. I think the ring's only real power was the Paris Hilton effect--making everyone THINK it was so fucking important. Why they went to so much trouble to destroy the thing when they could have just let that CGI weasel hide it away as his crack fix is beyond me. For that matter, they could have just let the bad guy have the damn thing. It would probably have turned him into a pathetic weasel too. The whole thing seemed like a quest in search of an actual purpose--with a shitload of walking and boredom.
I'm not familiar with the Hobbit, but I suspect this one will be even lamer than the Lord of the Rings. Now they're bringing in the fucking b-team to walk too.

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1. Re:I hated the Lord of the Rings movies by elrous0 · 2010-10-04 06:14 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  I feel asleep long before the end. Did it get less boring as shit?
  
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2. Re:I hated the Lord of the Rings movies by elrous0 · 2010-10-04 07:25 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  anyone who controls the one ring controls a great deal of power
  Yeah, everyone kept saying that in the movies. But the weasel and Frodo sure didn't seem very powerful to me. Even the bad guy must not have been too powerful if he lost the damn thing in the first place. I kept waiting for one of the humans, fairies, or Oompa-Loompas to ask where all this supposed power WAS anyway. Seems like Mr. Powerful Ring Bearer spent most of the movies running from shit.
  
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