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Peter Jackson Announces Third Hobbit Movie
eldavojohn writes "Unless his Facebook account has been hacked, Peter Jackson has announced a third movie for The Hobbit series: 'So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of The Hobbit films, I'd like to announce that two films will become three.' Other sites are confirming this while Variety notes that filming has been wrapped on the first two so doing a third film will require a restart to all of that effort including re-negotiations with rights holders and acting schedules. **potential spoiler alert** From Peter Jackson's announcement: 'We know how much of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance.' How much of Middle Earth would you like to see on film?"
Edit: So after RTFA it looks like the third movie will be stuff gleaned from Tolkien's other works, not anything that actually occurs in the novel The Hobbit.
21st Century Renaissance Man
come on, the Silmarillion is hardly a story. its much more like an appendix or as wikipedia puts it a legendarium. you couldnt make that a coherent movie any more than you could make the entire bible a single movie.
What are you talking about? Have you ever read it?
The rise of the races and the fall of the trees; the stories of Finwe, Feanor, etc; Beren and Luthie; Gondolin; Numenor; the wars of the first and second ages; and so on...
The Silmarillion is probably my favorite book of them all simply because of the epic scale of the stories that it tells, and it's the only one I've reread multiple times. The first time through it a lot of people get turned off by the very beginning, but honestly you can't stop there.
It transitions into very conventional storytelling pretty quickly and has a LOT to tell. I think it got much better the second time through because I wasn't having so much trouble keeping the names straight, and everything was much clearer.
It would make for some seriously epic movies imo. There's war, betrayal, and even romance on a MUCH larger scale than either the Hobbit or LotR.
Don't forget the complete libelous defamation done to Faramir's character, who was possibly the most amazing example of a human in the books.
“If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.”
“But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”