Whoa. For a second there, I totally misread that as "Morgan Freeman is looking good as Bilbo".
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I'd watch it.
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Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
Whoa. For a second there, I totally misread that as "Morgan Freeman is looking good as Bilbo".
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Ha, I did that at first as well!
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Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
Whoa. For a second there, I totally misread that as "Morgan Freeman is looking good as Bilbo".
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Whoa. For a second there, I totally misread that as "Morgan Freeman is looking good as Bilbo".
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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
Ha, I did that at first as well!
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Good lord.
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Only if Samuel L was Gandalf!
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Originally Posted by Starflier
I'd watch it.
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Only if Samuel L was Gandalf!
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I'd say Morgan Freeman as Gandalf and SLJ as Aragorn, but that's just me. >.>
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Originally Posted by ebon3
Only if Samuel L was Gandalf!
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Thank you for linking the pics.|
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... even though I still don't like them doing this in two films.
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I was upset at tinkering with the book at first, but then I heard they would be incorporating bits from a lot of other writings Tolkien made regarding Middle Earth. Since I've only read the trilogy and the Hobbit, I'm interested to see how Peter fleshes out Middle Earth with these extensions.
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That poor, poor man. Having to work almost 9 months for a measly 100 million dollars or more. Nine months!! Of working!!!|
PETER JACKSON WITH MARTIN FREEMAN ''There's no way you can pace yourself for shoots like these,'' Jackson says. ''When we were going through the schedule for The Hobbit, I felt a terrible drop in my stomach when I saw that we'd be shooting for 254 days. We're only 12 days short of The Lord of the Rings even though we're only doing two movies. When I saw that, I had to sort of pick myself up off the floor and carry on.'' |
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I have had it with these monkey-fighting goblins in this Monday to Friday cave!
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I'd say Morgan Freeman as Gandalf and SLJ as Aragorn, but that's just me. >.>
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I'm admittedly curious as well, especially since they did an overall good job with the LOTR storyline. Still, even my love of Middle Earth and knowing about all the extra stuff going on at the same time (or enjoying the sprawling mythology of The Silmarillion) doesn't keep me from knowing it's rather incidental to the story of The Hobbit. |
Originally Posted by Rodoan
Thank you for linking the pics.
I was upset at tinkering with the book at first, but then I heard they would be incorporating bits from a lot of other writings Tolkien made regarding Middle Earth. Since I've only read the trilogy and the Hobbit, I'm interested to see how Peter fleshes out Middle Earth with these extensions. |
We'll see how it goes and how they break it up, but seeing the scenes does remind me of the LOTR magic.
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That poor, poor man. Having to work almost 9 months for a measly 100 million dollars or more. Nine months!! Of working!!!
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But yes, on the other hand and in the universal scheme of things, it's an obscene amount of money for only 9 months work. I try not to think about how much my computer engineer friends from college make, and they have comparable or less schooling than I do.
It just ain't right. Still, I'm glad they're willing to work so hard on these.
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As an aside a story in yahoo says that Evangeline lily of Lost fame will be playing an elf in the Hobbit one of the elves of Mirkwood to be specific.
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Wow, it looks like Ian McKellen never left the set.
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...and neither did his wardrobe...come on man conjure up some new threads!
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Wow, it looks like Ian McKellen never left the set.
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only if samuel l was gandalf!
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Morgan Freeman WAS in LoTR. He was Tom Bombadil. But that part ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Originally Posted by ebon3
Only if Samuel L was Gandalf!
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What makes you say that? Personally, I'm curious to see how he does in tying the story to LoTR. Given PJ's experience, I feel confident he will be respectful to the source material.
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Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim
..I'm being foolish with these and feeling mildly hopeful, even though I still don't like them doing this in two films.
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Because it's a story that does not need two movies to make. The reason they're doing two is that they're grabbing extra stuff from all of Tolkien's many appendices and associated writings. As I noted earlier in the thread, while I enjoy reading most of Tolkien's extra stuff (I'm glad Christopher has kept working, and that we have received The Children of Hurin and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun in recent years), I also don't think it's needed or necessary for The Hobbit. Gandalf and Bilbo finding the ring are more than enough or a tie in to The Lord of the Rings... this movie makes me fear feature bloat.|
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What makes you say that? Personally, I'm curious to see how he does in tying the story to LoTR. Given PJ's experience, I feel confident he will be respectful to the source material.
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Like I said, I'm hopeful that the two movies will be solid and I'll want to watch them as much as I have the LOTR movies. But the move still seems questionable, and not everything in the original movies was great (piles of falling skulls was one brief but notable thing, just to name one). The production values will be there, by all accounts of the pictures, but I'm also not so silly as to get my hopes too high, even with directors and actors that I like.
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Rather off topic, but since we've been talking about how Samuel L. Jackson would approach Lord of the Rings, here's how he would approach a children's book. The link goes to a "kids book for parents" called Go the *Bleep* to Sleep. Even better, he actually narrated that book: it's well worth listening to (first, you get some monotone announcer saying that "Go the *bleep* to sleep" will be read by Samuel L. Jackson, then you get Jackson actually reading it).
I think the only other person I'd want to read that book more is Conan O'Brien after all the "lullabies" he has sung on his night show.
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I'm kind of curious where they plan on cutting the movie off at..
I don't know much about The Hobbit, outside of what I remember from that animated movie, that I haven't seen in years.. But I just can't think of a good place to end Part I.. Aside from maybe the slaying of Smaug, because the Battle of Five Armies comes after that right?
Is there enough stuff post-Smaug to turn into a decent part II?
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Because it's a story that does not need two movies to make. The reason they're doing two is that they're grabbing extra stuff from all of Tolkien's many appendices and associated writings. As I noted earlier in the thread, while I enjoy reading most of Tolkien's extra stuff (I'm glad Christopher has kept working, and that we have received The Children of Hurin and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun in recent years), I also don't think it's needed or necessary for The Hobbit. Gandalf and Bilbo finding the ring are more than enough or a tie in to The Lord of the Rings... this movie makes me fear feature bloat.
Like I said, I'm hopeful that the two movies will be solid and I'll want to watch them as much as I have the LOTR movies. But the move still seems questionable, and not everything in the original movies was great (piles of falling skulls was one brief but notable thing, just to name one). The production values will be there, by all accounts of the pictures, but I'm also not so silly as to get my hopes too high, even with directors and actors that I like. |
The second movie deals with Smaug, both in his lair with Bilbo, and the attack on the human settlement, plus the journey back.
If they tried to do justice to the entire book in one movie, it would be 4 hours long, and no one can sit that long in a theater. That also loses both the film studio and the theaters that show the movie money. I would much rather see more of each encounter, spread over two movies, than a rushed, heavily edited single movie.
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Entertainment Weekly has a new article on the upcoming Hobbit films, and it has a few pictures. Great to see Ian in the Gandalf the Grey outfit again, and Martin Freeman is looking good as Bilbo: I'm being foolish with these and feeling mildly hopeful, even though I still don't like them doing this in two films.
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