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The Hobbit To Be Filmed In New Zealand After All
An anonymous reader writes "John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, has confirmed this afternoon that The Hobbit will be filmed in NZ, after weeks of uncertainty. From the article: 'The future of the $670m production hung in the balance after an actors union issued a no-work order on the films last month. Talks were held overnight with studio executives from Warner Brothers to resolve concerns about industrial laws in New Zealand.'"
I can't wait to see the Duke Nukem Forever trailer that's debuting with it.
If Flight of the Conchords taught me nothing else, it's that New Zealand is the happening place to be (it's like Scotland, only further) and a great place to film The Hobbit. It's an excellent location for more walking.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
But a bribe would imply corruption, which is unlikely in NZ Gov http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
Sounds like commie talk to me, you pinko traitorous bastard. Don't you understand that unions are the source of all economic ills? Not to mention the cause of childhood obesity, teen pregnancy, and genital warts? That, were we to banish the blight that is organized labour, we could, as a society, finally build a utopian paradise?
Well, a society of individuals each working for their own benefit... if we worked together, we'd be dangerously close to something resembling a union, and that's communist talk, you pinko traitorous bastard.
...and Bilbo paid the actors union the funds they wanted, and everyone lived happily ever after.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
They are a very happy folk.
We would not have seen Sharkey. Jackson has stated that he didn't want to film the scouring of the Shire because he doesn't think it fits in with the narrative ark of the films. Which is too bad for 2 reasons: 1. although civic policing is something of a let down after the quest to destroy the personification of malevolent evil in the worl, it is the only part of the books that has any real relevance to me in the real world- what I mean is that it is not often anyone has cause to troop across the continent with a small band of friends slaying orcs, but it is really important for a civil society to protect against banal evil in our own backyards. 2. maybe if Jackson had actually shot this sequence, there would not have been time for the last 20 minutes of ROTK where nothing happens except that everyone stares wistfully at everyone else (in slow motion).
And get off my lawn.
If information wants to be free, why does my internet connection cost so much?
'I work in a highly unionized workplace'
Which is certainly better than working in a highly ionized workplace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ten4AQKDiFY
http://www.sciencecompany.com/lab/