Peter Jackson to be involved in Hobbit movie after all

[Majimaune]

Its going to be The Hobbit and The Necromancer or something like that isn't it? Starting off with the expelltion of The Necromancer out of Mirkwood?

 

[TK-421]

Guillermo del Toro is busy writting the scripts for the two movies and says this about his involvement in a recent interview:

Q: But THE HOBBIT is such a huge undertaking. It's going to consume several years of your career--

Del Toro: But I know directorially, while I'm doing THE HOBBIT, that I will not take anything else. I will not hurry up and shoot a pilot. I will not hurry up and shoot a Spanish-language movie. It's going to be three-and-a-half or four solid years dedicated to THE HOBBIT.

 

[ntvinh986]

*celebrates*
Thanks for the news!
*awaits the arrival of the new film*
this is going to take years isn't it - I can hardly wait days

Hi guys, Im a newbie. Nice to join this forum.

 

[Moggle]

It will be funny if New Line balks at paying out their contracts again after the film comes out.

 

[skeptical]

Personally, I think Peter Jackson was brilliant. I went into the first movie of LOTR in fear and trembling, sure he would stuff up the whole feel of the story. I was surprised and delighted within 2 minutes of the start. His whole image of The Shire was utterly brilliant.

My comparison was the abortive and horrible attempt some years earlier of compressing the whole 3 books into a single feature length cartoon. An abomination!

Peter Jackson had to use omissions and a few minor additions and changes, but remained true to the spirit of the story throughout. If he had included Tom Bombadil, he would probably have needed to make a fourth film, and enough is sufficient. You others may moan and complain, but I am delighted.

 

[GOLLUM]

My comparison was the abortive and horrible attempt some years earlier of compressing the whole 3 books into a single feature length cartoon. An abomination!.

Just to clarify the Bakshi animated feature in '78 entitled The Lord Of The Rings covered the first half of the entire LOTR trilogy. A second half was planned but never made. Then there's the '80 animated film by Rankin/Bass The Return Of The King, viewed as a pseudo-official sequel to the Bakshi filkm. This same crowd also made an adaptation of the Hobbit in '77. These 3 films are often sold as a boxed set or individual items.

Having seen all 3 films I quite enjoyed Bakshi's '78 adaption for its use of rotoscoping (where live action by costumed actors were played over the top of the animation) although the scripts written by Peter S Beagle was less than inspiring. The '80 film Return Of The King was fairly woeful I thought but The Hobbit film in '77 is perhaps the best of these 3 films.

I do agree though that Jackson's films are excellent and unlikely to be bettered as an adaptation of LOTR.

Cheers....

 

[HareBrain]

Having seen all 3 films I quite enjoyed Bakshi's '78 adaption for its use of rotoscoping (where live action by costumed actors were played over the top of the animation) although the scripts written by Peter S Beagle was less than inspiring.

I saw the Bakshi film about five or six times at the cinema when it came out (well, I was only eleven, and my critical faculties were a little undeveloped). There are things to criticise about it (I would list them, but, y'know, bandwidth issues) but I agree that the rotoscoping was an interesting technique. I have it on DVD (rarely watched) and I still think the attack of the Black Riders at the ford was very effective; in fact I prefer that one scene to the Peter Jackson version.

 

[Rodders]

I loved that film and was always a bit disapointed that they never finished the saga.