Talk of two Hobbits | Movie News
When it was initially announced that filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was entering the Shire for back-to-back HOBBIT movies, it was stated that he'd be doing an adaptation of Tolkein's book and then a "bridge" movie that would deal with the 60-year period between THE HOBBIT and FELLOWSHIP.
That might not be entirely accurate, as Guillermo now tells Empire: "We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur."
Producer and LOTR adapter Peter Jackson succinctly adds: "We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie."
That still leaves the question of the additional material the duo was planning to adapt, and precisely how they'll split the story so that it feels organic when one movie ends and the next begins. The first movie is due December 2011.
Source: Empire
Extra Tidbit: I haven't read the book since grade school, so all you Tolkein diehards out there will have to speculate on where that transition could/should occur.
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6:46AM on 04/20/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Example: Gandalf references finding Thrain in Dol Goldur. But that whole scene could take 15 minutes of movie time. What does Dol Goldur look like? How many other prisoners...
Example: Gandalf references finding Thrain in Dol Goldur. But that whole scene could take 15 minutes of movie time. What does Dol Goldur look like? How many other prisoners are there? What guards them (Balrogs??)? I think the movie makers can expand on JRRT's ideas without causing harm to the mythology.
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Now, please cast Martin Freeman!!!
Now, please cast Martin Freeman!!!
8:16PM on 04/18/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
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Kinda like how in the movies, Boromir dies at the battle of Amon Hen in Fellowship of the Ring, yet that happens in the Two Towers book... same thing with Shelob's Lair.. that leaves you hanging at the end of the Two Towers book, not at the beginning of the...
Kinda like how in the movies, Boromir dies at the battle of Amon Hen in Fellowship of the Ring, yet that happens in the Two Towers book... same thing with Shelob's Lair.. that leaves you hanging at the end of the Two Towers book, not at the beginning of the Return of the King movie.
Shit works better in films different ways from books so.. I put all my faith and trust in these 2
12:57PM on 04/18/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Same with...
Same with dwarf tossing, emjoi, they just don't need to add any excessive goofiness like Jackson did a bit of in Lotr...
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why havent we heard anything about the Hobbit movies and the answer to that was that Del Toro and Jackson were in negotiations for a 3rd Hobbit/ bridge movie so one can only hope that this is true.... The more the merrier.
why havent we heard anything about the Hobbit movies and the answer to that was that Del Toro and Jackson were in negotiations for a 3rd Hobbit/ bridge movie so one can only hope that this is true.... The more the merrier.
9:32AM on 04/18/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Bilbo as a child, enjoying Gandalf's fireworks, for example. Or we could go WAY back and see the Witch King...
Bilbo as a child, enjoying Gandalf's fireworks, for example. Or we could go WAY back and see the Witch King of Angmar's rise....The splitting of the two kingdoms (Gondor/Arnor), etc etc. There is just so much there, that they run the risk of doing a "silmarillion movie" if they push too far back for history.
With that in mind, the breaking point will fall likely inside The Hobbit itself. I'd say that the finding of the ring, the escape out of the Misty Mountains, the house of Beorn and finally the first steps into Mirkwood would be where the first movie ends.
2:08AM on 04/18/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Putting them in barrels and so forth.
You have to expect a bit of Dwarf comedy.
Putting them in barrels and so forth.
You have to expect a bit of Dwarf comedy.
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