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OSCAR WINNER PETER JACKSON TO DIRECT “THE HOBBIT” IN TWO INSTALLMENTS (Green light given)
New Line/Warner Brothers ^
| October 15th, 2010
| Press Release
Posted on 10/15/2010 7:51:41 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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This is the official announcement that the Hobbit movies will be made, actors can be hired, contracts can be made.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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posted on
10/15/2010 7:52:45 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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posted on
10/15/2010 7:53:02 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: doc1019
You can say that again! The purists will be upset about the 3-D, but they are still griping about Tom Bombadil.
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posted on
10/15/2010 7:54:46 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Amen! Although I hope they stick closer to the book then the Trilogy series did. Although I will concede, if they had included all that was in the trilogy books, we would still be watching movie number one.
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10/15/2010 8:01:35 PM PDT
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doc1019
(Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Excellent news, but do we have any idea about potential cast members??
Bilbo?? Gandalf?? Thorin Oakenshield??
??
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:04:08 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Waiting for Smaug
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
The purists will be upset about the 3-D 3-D, eh? Well, that's cool. I just hope they shoot it in 2-D simultaneously.
You know, if I'd read the trilogy before seeing the movies, I'd likely be a purist, too. In the case of LOTR, I'm happy that I'm doing it backwards. I probably wouldn't have enjoyed the movies half as much, if I'd known the story, beforehand.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:05:49 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
3D is only bad if they focus on that so much the 2D viewed version is blech.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:09:49 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
What about Tom Bombadil? They’re not leaving the character out, are they?
Btw, I always thought if young, Patrick Macnee would’ve made the perfect Bombadil.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:10:38 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: doc1019
And the downside to such a thing would be...??
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:11:38 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
I use to always pass over the part of Tom Bombadil but, as I have grown older, that story has become precious to me. As much as the story seemed out of place in the whole of LOR so is Tom’s life in respect to the whole of Middle-earth.
We all yearn for our own safe place where the terrors of the of the world CANNOT intrude. I could go on but... it’s time for bed!
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:14:12 PM PDT
by
Texaspeptoman
(Even cannibals get fed-up with people sometimes...!)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Guess I’m a purist. :-)
I just find 3D to be distracting from the story ...
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:14:40 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Wow.
Two movies for such a short book? I hope that the attention to detail is worth the effort.
I wonder what continuity Jackson will be able to bring to the story, in casting decisions and so forth. As I recall, only Gandalf, Bilbo, and Gollum actually occur as characters in both The Hobbit and LOTR.
To: pillut48
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! LOL!
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:17:13 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
To: Bean Counter
‘Excellent news, but do we have any idea about potential cast members??’
I expect that they will start signing contracts and announcing cast members almost immediately. It is expected that the cast members from TLOTR who were in the Hobbit will repeat (Gandalf, Elrond, Gollum, Galadriel). Bilbo is much too old, and Saruman probably is too (he wasn’t in the book, but it is expected that the White Council will be included in the movies). Speculation has included nearly every English speaking actor in the world. Go to “ http://www.theonering.net/ “ for discussions.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:18:55 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
but they are still griping about Tom Bombadil And:
No Fatty Bolger and the house on the edge of the Old Forest
Arwen carrying Frodo to the ford
Not forging Anduril before they left Rivendell
Aragorn's bizarre reluctance to assume his rightful station
The Elves showing up at Helm's Deep
No Dúnedain accompanying Aragorn in the Paths of the Dead
No Scouring of the Shire
,etc.
But the films were a good effort.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:20:44 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Am working on plans for a Knights Templar Community Center next to the Kaaba in Mecca.)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Two movies sounds like someone is trying to milk too much from too little material. I recently re-read The Hobbit, and just don't think it justifies 2/3s of the treatment of LOTR.
A pox upon Tom Bombadil. Everytime I force myself to read that section, I have to wonder if Tolkien wrote this part before he had any idea where the rest of the story might go, and he was reluctant to take a blue pencil to it later.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:22:14 PM PDT
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Nepeta
To: Ready4Freddy
Heck, I was a fan of Prince Imrahil, but they left him out anyhow.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:23:31 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: Nepeta
They are going to include some of the darker material that occurs only as stories in The Hobbit, such as the White Council and the Necromancer.
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posted on
10/15/2010 8:26:10 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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