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"The Hobbit" directed by Peter Jackson coming 2010
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:15 am
by ichabod
Via <a href="
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 99978">The Hollywood reporter</a> comes the news that the Hobbit is go!
NEW YORK -- The eagerly awaited prequels to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will finally hit the big screen.
MGM and New Line have pacted to co-finance and co-distribute "The Hobbit" and a sequel to the film. New Line will handle distribution in North America, and MGM will distribute the J.R.R. Tolkien adaptations internationally.
Putting aside what once seemed like irreconcilable differences over the filmmaker's profit participation, "Rings" writer-director Peter Jackson and New Line have settled all litigation over the nearly $3 billion-grossing "Rings" trilogy. Jackson and Fran Walsh will executive produce the films, to be shot simultaneously, and New Line will manage their production.
Preproduction will begin soon, and principal photography is tentatively set for 2009. The release of the first film is slated for 2010 and the sequel in 2011.
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I'll be honest I'm worried about the 2011 sequel and what it will be. Something newly written for a film, possibly not written by Tolkien? Who knows. Also if this had been released following the LotR hype it would have done well. I'm wondering if perhaps the wait will have seen a cooling off of public interest for it.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:22 am
by Lazario
Good, that means he'll be available to do interviews for the long overdo DVD special edition of Dead Alive / Braindead, Anchor Bay's rumored DVD of Meet the Feebles, and a more expansive edition of Bad Taste.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:34 am
by 2099net
I'm sure the sequel will reveal that Bilbo posesses Midi-chlorians, and that golum is... his father!
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:50 pm
by ichabod
2099net wrote:I'm sure the sequel will reveal that Bilbo posesses Midi-chlorians, and that golum is... his father!
Now, don't let's be silly!
We all know perfectly well that some trolls will steal Gandalf's staff and turn back time undoing the events of the original then they will need refight the dragon all over again, hoping that no one will notice the gaping plotholes and irreversible changes to the space time continuum, possible ending up in a future where it rains doughnuts!
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:04 pm
by I Love Bambi
Peter Jackson! WooHoo!!
I can't believe that they're making this! How exciting! Hope they can get the original cast back for it.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:09 pm
by 2099net
I hope Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold a lot. Just like in the old text-based computer adventure game.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:35 pm
by azul017
Lazario wrote:Good, that means he'll be available to do interviews for the long overdo DVD special edition of Dead Alive / Braindead, Anchor Bay's rumored DVD of Meet the Feebles, and a more expansive edition of Bad Taste.
He's working on
The Lovely Bones right now, so he might be so tied up with doing post-production for that, directing one of the
Tintin movies for DreamWorks, and producing
The Hobbit so he might not have time to do special editions for the rest of his films. I'm sure he'll get around to that eventually. I would love to see
Meet the Feebles, it sounds warped but hilarious.
As for the sequel to
The Hobbit, if the writers base that on
The Simillarion and/or the appendices for the LOTR trilogy, it should be fine as long as it's not original material. I am just wondering why on earth would MGM and New Line produce a sequel to
The Hobbit when it's clear that functions as an introduction to the trilogy itself? The studios just see money and not creativity.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:54 pm
by Mr. Toad
It may not be a sequel but dividing the Hobbit into two parts.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:11 pm
by Maerj
2099net wrote:I'm sure the sequel will reveal that Bilbo posesses Midi-chlorians, and that golum is... his father!
For some strange reason I am getting the feeling you didn't completely enjoy the Star Wars prequels OR are a Lucas fan. Not sure why, I just get that feeling...
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:13 pm
by SpringHeelJack
Mr. Toad wrote:It may not be a sequel but dividing the Hobbit into two parts.
Always possible, but considering they didn't really split any of the dense LOTR novels up, I doubt they'd do it to "The Hobbit".
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:52 pm
by Disney-Fan
How do they plan on getting past writing the script with the current writer's strike?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:15 pm
by Jack Skellington
I think that one movie is enough.
I've read the hobbit and it's shorter than the 3 Lord of the Rings books, so why would they make a trilogy out of a book like that ?!
Maybe they should make a movie about Peter Jackson counting his millions with wide creepy eyes as he whispers "My Precioussssss" !
I'd pay to watch that movie !
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:22 pm
by Disneykid
I'm happy about this news, and am also suspicious. It seems to me the only reason why this is happening is because The Golden Compass is tanking at the box office, and New Line was hoping His Dark Materials would be their next big fantasy franchise. I just hope they let PJ make the film he wants to make and not try to intervene like they did with Golden Compass. I'm also worried, like everyone else here, about the potential sequel since the Lord of the Rings trilogy kind of IS a sequel to The Hobbit, or at least a spin-off of it. It's possible they may use material from The Silmarillion like azul said, but since I've never actually read it myself, I don't know how it figures into the overall Middle Earth saga. Still, I'll be cautiously optimistic about this project.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:42 pm
by Ktrek
I agree about being cautiously optimistic. I think it's great that Peter Jackson will be at the helm because it will likely give a feel of continuity BUT I think milking the ol' cash cow by making two films out the book is a bit much. As far as I'm concerned I don't see two films worth of material in the book, which means they will likely take a lot of liberties to draw the story out.
Kevin
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:39 am
by I Love Bambi
I think that the sequel the article was referring to might be The Simarillion. The Hobbit isn't long enough to make two movies out of.
(Hopefully they won't split Hobbit into 2 parts.......
)
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:18 am
by DarthPrime
I'm also wondering if these two movies will simply be The Hobbit divided into two parts.
Probably the only one to say this, but I didn't get to excited for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and I'll probably skip seeing The Hobbit in the theaters. Even though I'm not a big fan I think Jackson did do a good job with the Trilogy and hopefully he will continue with the two "new" movies.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:37 am
by MagicMirror
The Silmarillion would be a very difficult story to adapt. However I could see certain individual episodes from it, like the downfall of Numenor, working very well in film form. But the whole book... it just wouldn't work. Perhaps as a miniseries and, even then, only maybe.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:12 pm
by Lazario
azul017 wrote:Lazario wrote:Good, that means he'll be available to do interviews for the long overdo DVD special edition of Dead Alive / Braindead, Anchor Bay's rumored DVD of Meet the Feebles, and a more expansive edition of Bad Taste.
He's working on
The Lovely Bones right now, so he might be so tied up with doing post-production for that, directing one of the
Tintin movies for DreamWorks, and producing
The Hobbit so he might not have time to do special editions for the rest of his films. I'm sure he'll get around to that eventually. I would love to see
Meet the Feebles, it sounds warped but hilarious.
As for the sequel to
The Hobbit, if the writers base that on
The Simillarion and/or the appendices for the LOTR trilogy, it should be fine as long as it's not original material. I am just wondering why on earth would MGM and New Line produce a sequel to
The Hobbit when it's clear that functions as an introduction to the trilogy itself? The studios just see money and not creativity.
Ugh.
Just what I wanted to hear.
He is seriously losing all the respect I ever had for him. And that's not easy, considering, eventually, how I was
grudgingly able to forgive him for The Frighteners (1996).
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:23 am
by blackcauldron85
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:39 am
by ajmrowland
I dont see it posted here, but last I heard, it was being produced by PJ and directed by Guillermo Del Torro.