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The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting
Tiger4 writes "Warner Bros. has announced that production has officially begun on Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Jackson even posted a couple of pictures of himself on one of the sets. This despite the strikes, bankruptcies, contract disputes, and legal actions that have swarmed Jackson and the project since his Lord of the Rings days. Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen."
But why the sudden turn to violence? Who even knew Hobbits had firearms?
I was wondering what I was going to do in December of 2012(3?)
Duck, you fools!!!
Or better, don't duck, hobbits shoot at knee level
how long until
Okay I love Martin Freeman from The Office, but isn't he a little old for the role? I guess he is pretty short at least.
And frankly, I still think this whole thing is going to fall apart at some point. Jackson and the studio have been at each other's throats for a long time. I sense a very unamicable parting of the ways coming pretty much any day, shooting or not.
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No secret needed. I want to see this film. It was my favorite of all the books and I'm dying to see their interpretation of Smaug.
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I don't know how Peter Jackson is going to cram in enough fake death scenes for this. But I guess he can do it with the trolls, the orcs, smaug, and the battle of five armies.
I've secretly been dying to see this happen.
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"Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen"
No, I have a job, a life and live above ground
And apparently it's got Frodo, Legolas, Galadriel, and Sauruman in it...
So will this be the epic success that it should be? Or has it be ethnticly changed like so many other movies and turned into yet another example of how changing the orginal story can turn gold to poop.
What I want to know is where did a Hobbit get a gun in Middle Earth?
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They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
"Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen."
After the travesty that was LotR, you couldn't pay me to watch a Jackson version of The Hobbit.
Hobbits also live a bit longer than H. sapiens. They reach "maturity" in their early 30s and expect to live to 100 (source).
Morgan Freeman is going to play Bilbo!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Charlie Sheen is rumoured to be 5'10", hardly a hobbit.
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I'm still pissed that they dumped Del Toro. The only thing I thought was decent about the first three was Gollum. Oh well.
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...filmed in 3D
the hobbit was under the table, and could clearly see who was about to shoot first, and han wasn't about to get the jump on greedo, so the hobbit had to rectify the situation
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At least for some of us. No matter what obstacle emerges it will still get made. The Hobbit is probably worth more than $2 billion. Tolkiens, unions, ulcers, whatever; ultimately the various and sundry stake holders want their cut and for that to happen it must appear in the theater, and they all know it.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
seeing as martin freeman has 1 mode of acting. its going to be 'the bloke from the office in middleearth'
Did anyone else just finish reading the story about the Dutch guy tweeting aircraft data for the attacks on Libya and assume that this story was about Qadafi's response?
Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen.
Not really. I was crazy about LOTR, that was an epic novel that clearly could be turned into an equally epic movie (and yes, it was a single, 11 hours long movie, that just happened to be split in 3 parts). The Hobbit, on the other hand, is a much lighter and simpler tale; a delicious novel, sure, but not one that seems especially suited to be turned into a movie of the same kind.
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Why does it say "2" films in the article?. Is the hobbit going to be divided up into two pieces?
I was really into the first three but just haven't watched them for a few years. Now with this announcement I'm just kinda "meh" about it.
Despite all the problems, there was too much guaranteed money to be made to not get this project finished. This movie could stink like an ostrich fart and still make a billion dollars in merchandise alone.
LOTR was okay. The remake will no doubt be better (except for the inevitable downgrade in the Arwen department).
But there were like 18 hours of it. Left me somewhat burnt out.
Unless Jackson has significantly altered his style I'm not sure The Hobbit will feel like anything new.
thanks a lot, now I have an image of Bilbo scrambling around some great cave trying to gather niter, charcoal and sulfur like Captain Kirk.
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We made it into a musical back in 1965 during summer camp. I was a tree.. or frog, something like that, I forget. It was such a smash, it was held over for a second night.
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for those not in the know, they are stretching out the hobbit to two movies, by delving into gandalf sparring with the necromancer (sauron), mentioned in the book only briefly
http://forum.thehobbit-movie.com/viewtopic.php?p=1929&sid=5d7ebd0d347992d45e1ae7b312077fb6
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You might ask the Chinese how that can happen.
Peter Jackson please go DIAF.
I thought hobbits were more accurate than humans (if not elves), or does that only apply to throwing stones?
It's pretty obvious PJ was just waiting for what he calls "The Right Price". /Apologies to Douglas Adams...
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I'm more excited about something that's a bit closer on the timeline, the Game of Thrones series. A little less black vs white, hopefully.
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Personally I've always liked The Hobbit far more than the LotR trilogy. A much more compact and enjoyable tale - once you could get past the opening jammed full of what are hobbits, 13 dwarves all with names, and what's that wizard doing in all of this? I do realize that this is sacrilege comparable to saying that I likes PC's more than Apples.
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There are two major encounters which can completely blow the film. The obvious is Smaug. I haven't seen a good dragon since Dragonslayer. The second is the spiders in the woods. I am not overly worried about the Worgs meeting on the hilltop but the Eagles may be a bit more an issue. The story in The Hobbit is more fantastic from the non humanoid side than LOTR was. So it opens itself to more chances to be bad.
As for where they break the story, probably after the Spiders and having the dwarves doing their barrel ride, else after the trolls. I am not really sure where a good break is with this book but those the two major events before getting to the Lonely Mountain.
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Do I assume NZ is recovered by its major earthquake/quake?
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I hope Leonard Nimoy gets a cameo in the movie, and a reprise musical number. He'd make a great elf, with the pointy ears and all.
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Why don't you cast your self as Bilbo?
It's so much you! standing in front of the circular door at the set.
Will you consider it? Peter Baggins?
Didn't hate it, but it didn't really do anything for me. I like the books. BUT, I loved the Hobbit and I hope the movie does it justice. This is the all time adventurer story.
They come in the dark, only in the darkest.
Those pictures are obvious fakes: everyone knows Peter Jackson only ever wears shorts!
He will be replaced by Arwen instead. Also, Bilbo will not find the ring in Gollum's cave. Gandalf will hand it to him with the sword and say "Here, I got these for you."
Sorry to spoil the surprise.
An arrow of fire with an ever longer tail of smoky pume leapt forth from the shoulder of the hobbit, over the head of Legolas who had yet to fully draw his bow, the brilliant bolt curving into the sky at the winged fell beast, and smote it in the belly with a flash and roar. Vile and putrid entrails rained down upon the party. "I shot at him with the FIM-92 Stinger of Galadriel; I felled him from the sky!", boasted the hobbit. "He filled us all with fear. What new terror is this?". Replied Gandalf, "One that you cannot slay with portable Raytheon missile systems, You only slew his steed. It was a good deed; but the Rider was soon horsed again"
Seriously! It did! The Hobbit is sitting on my DVD shelf right now... oh you mean they're making a version that ISN'T animated? Well how on earth is The Hobbit supposed to keep my attention for a few hours without constant breaking in to song?
... The ten part Silmarillion movie. This is simply a kids story. Show me some hott elf on elf killing to wipe that smug look off of Elrond face whenever he's talking about the evil/vile humans. Self hating half-human hypocrite that he is.
Grrrrrrrr
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That's fine, but will it be in 3D??? It has to be in 3D!!!! I will only see movies in 3D!!! I want the dragon to fly out of the screen!!! ..... don't know why they're filming there since it will be CG anyways. /shrugs
And to the door, commanded he "Annon Edhellen, edro hi ammen!". But the doors were steadfast. "Fennas Nogothrim, lasto beth lammen!", cried Gandalf, to no avail. Observed Pippen, "but nothing is happening". "Knock your head against these doors, Peregrin Took! And if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will try to find the opening words........Oh, it's useless!", the exasperated wizard proclaimed, throwing down his staff and sitting beside Frodo, and off his hat to think. Frodo snorted, "cursed copulation with orcs upon this magic word bovine manure, my patience has long since been consumed with this pettiness". Furiously keying in coordinates into his iPhone, he summoned the MQ-1 with the AGM-114 missiles from on high. With a faint sneer curling his lips, he turned toward his peers, advising them in a still voice, "run like hell, for verily the Hellfires come!"
...did he kill anyone already?
Wasn't he fat?
I'm not sure I trust a thin man to be a good geek.
& J.R.R. Tolkien's oeuvre spared this final insult.
you had me at #!
Almost as soon as the deal was struck for the movie, the production of the Hobbit video game began. I've been hearing about it for the last 2 years from the lead
artist on the game Morgan Wolverton. If the game is anything like the work on his site, it's going to feature some really twisted looking creatures and scenes.
My, how eleven and a half years just fly by in this middle Earth.
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Fuck the MPAA.
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They surgically removed the subtleties of the story not to save time but to make way for new content that intensifies the action and romance, as if the story itself did not contain enough meat to entertain audiences. Guillermo del Toro gave me hope that The Hobbit would be different, but now that he's gone I can already see the heavy hand of Peter Jackson at work.
Wow I'm definitely going to watch this one.
Did Jackson and the studio come to a settlement and reveal the books to clear up their creative Hollywood accounting?