2011-07-24, 13:57 | Link #42 |
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I was already pretty excited about The Hobbit since I love Tolkien and I thought the movie adaptions if LOTR were great. Not as good as the books but still excellent films
But now with the casting of Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage & Benedict Cumberbatch I am even more thrilled about the Hobbit films.
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2011-07-25, 12:44 | Link #45 | |||
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Later on he would develop individual parts of the world/ages on and off. The whole "realm" was his ... err ... passion/obsession/hobby/creative outlet. The Hobbit was indeed a story to be read to his children, who had been hearing bits and pieces of papa's stories now and again, and it was the first printed book. However, a lot of other material had already been developed in different stages and different ... err ... "episodes" (for lack of a better word). The trilogy (technically 6 books - each book is a compilation of two "books") was much more reflective of the "serious" quality of his writing - as in the silmarillion, and the endless notes and revisions he had (posthumously published in the "lost tales" volumes and other books by his son Christopher ... and still being published iirc). Quote:
BTW ... I am a HUGE Tolkien fan! (Or was that obvious?)
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2011-07-25, 14:27 | Link #46 |
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Memories from the Lord of the Rings films come back. And the heacy interest in all the novels that followed it. I sense it will happen again.
Though I'm fairly sure these two films, while they will follow the book, will not be childrens book level films. Not if they continue using the style they had in the previus three films. But I love that the films will flow together because it is made by the same people with the possible returning cast being the same (elves and wizards mostly...but also Gollum). Also we will get to see stuff that was only talked about in the novel...the stuff Gandalf was doing in the south for much of it. I also remember that in one of the commentaries from the other films, that Peter Jackson has specifically saved the Bag End set, partly because it was a nice piece and partly in case he every got around to making the Hobbit...which, now, he is. And don't tell me you wouldn't want to live in a home like Bag End. A place like that seems alomst tailor made for hot places like Arizona. Only the doors would need to be changed for safety reasons.
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2011-07-25, 21:15 | Link #47 |
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Tens of millions of readers have fantasized about living in Bag End. That put a lot of pressure on PJ, but he did a helluva job.
I think PJ will strike a middle ground with these two films. The Hobbit by necessity is going to have a lighter tone than the LotR films, but I suspect he'll make is slightly grittier than the book was, for the most part.
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2011-07-27, 15:07 | Link #48 |
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In light of people complaining about the movie adaptation (Not me, I am personally psyched to go see it),
including returning characters such as Legolas and Saruman, I just hope Saruman's appearance is something like this: Keeping the humor up!
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2011-07-27, 17:50 | Link #51 |
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500 million into the two films (part 1 & part 2) is a lot considering that the trilogy is just over half of that.I hope peter jackson makes it good and gets really in depth with bilbo's adventure, Also Dragonnnnn :P
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2011-11-04, 19:20 | Link #52 |
Gamilas Falls
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Update: 3D Hobbit
http://movies.msn.com/paralleluniver...story/feature/ And a more direct way there.... (Peter Jackson's video blog #4) It actually sounds like they know what they are doing. Meaning we might get a 3D film that works like it was just filmed naturally. Depending on location shooting I suppose.
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2011-12-20, 22:40 | Link #60 |
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Is there any concrete information about the material the second film will cover? Anything at all? At first I heard it was going to be background events that didn't explicitly occur in The Hobbit novel so much as in supplementary materials, but who knows if that had any truth.
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