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Post by Josh on Oct 6, 2007 11:53:21 GMT -8
It looks like hopes for a Hobbit movie helmed by Jackson may be rekindling! For some reason I can't make this link active (it doesn't like the commas), but you can copy and paste it: www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20036782_20037403_20142132,00.html
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Post by b on Nov 15, 2007 12:44:14 GMT -8
You should also check out "flyingmoose.com" and look under the "Tolkien Sarcasm" section for some LOTR parody and speculation. The site is old (before the movies) so it is humorous to read about people imagining what it would be like if they were filmed.
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Post by christopher on Dec 3, 2007 11:24:53 GMT -8
Sweet!! I don't know if this is a carnal attitude or not, but I'm praying for this movie to happen.
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Post by Josh on Dec 5, 2007 17:19:34 GMT -8
1 Timothy 2:1 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— 2for kings and all those in authority... That everyone has got to include Peter Jackson
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Post by Josh on Dec 18, 2007 10:31:15 GMT -8
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Post by b on Dec 18, 2007 15:57:38 GMT -8
According to the NY Times article I read today,
Good News: 2 Hobbit Movies greenlighted Other News: Peter Jackson will produce but not direct, he is commited to other projects. New Line considering Sam Raimi (Spiderman, Xena, etc)
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Post by michelle on Dec 18, 2007 19:33:07 GMT -8
Sweet, I can't WAIT!!!!!
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Post by Josh on Dec 18, 2007 22:25:52 GMT -8
I bet you want to buy the Frodo bust, too, huh?
(do you see the scary looking ad above?)
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Post by rose on Dec 18, 2007 22:40:01 GMT -8
Michelle, I'm so glad that you're finally on board with the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit stuff! When are we going to get together and watch the trilogy?
;D ;D ;D
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Post by Josh on Jul 4, 2008 12:38:09 GMT -8
OK, so now that Del Toro's at the helm, I've read some things I'm not too sure I like- like something about the new films not following in the artistic footsteps of the trilogy.
I understand this to a degree... I don't think someone should have to be a slave to Jackson, but I hope this doesn't mean that, for instance, the orcs and dwarves, etc.. are going to look radically different. I seriously hope the same Shire is used, etc...
If not, I don't know if I'll be able to handle the discontinuity.
It'll be like the animated versions all over again. -sigh-
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Post by Josh on Oct 15, 2008 20:14:31 GMT -8
An update from a website interview of Del Toro on how the two Hobbit films are related to each other- emphasis mine:
“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative,” he said of scriptwriting meetings between “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, his filmmaking team of Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and del Toro himself.
“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”
Intended or not, the methodology ties in nicely with the material, since Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” story, popularized in three separate volumes, was similarly intended to be one large, single volume work.
Practically, the division (or lack thereof) means little in so far as solving the narrative riddles of the second episode. (What will the second episode contain? What characters will return, etc?) Well, except for the very end that is, which will lead right into “The Fellowship of the Ring,” del Toro revealed.
“We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for,” Del Toro said. “You should see a movie that’s five pictures long. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind up watching the entire Pentology!”
And let me be the (second) to say: That would be one heck of a long day.
“But it’s a good day!” Del Toro laughed with my colleague Josh Horowitz. “Better than paying taxes!”
Some of us at ACF participated in an all-day Lord of the Rings Extended Edition viewing (including breakfast, lunch, and dinner) a copule years ago (hosted by the Coles, of course). I think that clocked in at about 11 hours. Throw in two Hobbit films in a couple years and we're talking a Tolkien viewing weekend retreat!
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Post by Josh on Nov 13, 2009 11:20:22 GMT -8
Cool new article on the development of the film: www.examiner.com/x-11527-JRR-Tolkien-Examiner~y2009m11d10-The-Hobbit-Report-November-10-2009Here's a highlight: The idea to structure the two films with one a Hobbit adaptation and the other as an invented story linking The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings has been completely abandoned. The films will split the story of the novel The Hobbit in two, with the events of the White Council's battle against the Necromancer, only alluded to in the book, fully fleshed out on-screen. Del Toro told the site:
We are respecting the structure established by Professor Tolkien because the order of the adventures in The Hobbit is well known to generations and generations of kids. You don’t want to be moving stuff like that.
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Post by rbbailey on Nov 13, 2009 14:20:28 GMT -8
I've taught The Hobbit, read the whole thing out-loud, in my 8th grade class for the past 5 years. I'm really looking forward to seeing the movie, but I'm dreading it at the same time. I virtually have the book memorized, so.... watching the movie will be difficult when they venture into Hollywood and out of Middle Earth.
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Post by Josh on Nov 13, 2009 17:39:41 GMT -8
Ben, What was your overall take on the LOTR movies?
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Post by Margot on Nov 14, 2009 0:13:57 GMT -8
Some of us at ACF participated in an all-day Lord of the Rings Extended Edition viewing (including breakfast, lunch, and dinner) a copule years ago (hosted by the Coles, of course). I think that clocked in at about 11 hours. Throw in two Hobbit films in a couple years and we're talking a Tolkien viewing weekend retreat! Excellent!!! I'd like to reserve my space now, please ;D
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Post by Margot on Nov 14, 2009 0:16:49 GMT -8
I was one of the few Middle Earth freaks way long ago in high school, before the things they called Internet and DVD. It was one of my happiest moments to share the trilogy on film with my kids and find they loved it as much as I did. I'm so excited that The Hobbit will be available to them too!
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Post by rbbailey on Nov 14, 2009 21:01:11 GMT -8
Josh,
About LOTR movies: I liked what they did with the movies, I didn't like what they didn't do.
I think it was a good effort, worth owning on DVD and watching once a year or so. And understanding the way the book goes to movie -- well, you really can't blame them too much for some of the changes. However, the only one I really had an issue with was the character of Aragorn -- in the book, I don't seem to remember him being such a reluctant hero. I seem to remember that he was well aware of his destiny. The whole mystique or the Ranger, and his Christ-figure characteristics are not played with in the movie much at all.
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