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| Middle Earth The Peter Jackson masterpieces, covering Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, & Return of the King. With The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug, & There and Back Again. |
18th November 2008, 03:33 PM
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| Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? Peter Jackson has apparently settled his differences with New Line and will produce this one. With I believe Guillermo Del Toro will be directing, cool huh? Apologies if you've heard this before. |
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23rd November 2008, 12:54 AM
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| Re: Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? needs to be a 2 parter to do it justice No need for missing/adding stuff or requirements for PJ's artistic license either! Hope they manage to get Smaug right most of all |
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9th December 2008, 04:42 PM
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| Re: Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? Well it's going to be a hugely difficult act to follow - the expectation levels will far outstrip even those of the LOTR films. Certainly looking forward to it - personally I think that having a new director (especially Del Toro!) might be a good thing; as much as I admired PJ's stunning adaptation I think that Del Toro will bring a fresh vision and avoid the new films being weak shadows of the original trilogy (as happened with Star Wars!) |
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9th December 2008, 04:52 PM
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| Where matter vanishes...  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Maryland
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| Re: Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? Yes, as long as PJ doesn't butcher any more characters *cough*Faramir*, and keeps the characters faithful more or less to the book *cough*Glorfindel/Arwen*cough*, I definitely am looking forward to it! |
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13th December 2008, 11:53 PM
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| Re: Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? To answer the posed question: Yes, I'm looking forward to The Hobbit. I'm sure that a more than adequate job will be done with it, given that it's a much easier (and shorter!) story to adapt for a screenplay and to film. What I'm not sure about is the proposed "second Hobbit film", covering the seventy-odd years between TA 2942 and TA 3018. If it sticks to Appendix B, the Tale of Years, well and good - but I have my doubts whether this will satisfy Messrs Del Toro and Jackson, somehow... |
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14th December 2008, 12:07 AM
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| Goblin Princess  | Re: Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? There has been so much back-and-forth "they're doing it," "no they're not," that I'm not allowing myself to look forward to it. But if I was sure it was going to happen, I'd be looking forward to the first part at least. I wonder if we'll see Legolas among the wood elves? And will they rewrite it so that there are some female characters? |
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14th December 2008, 12:21 AM
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| Re: Anyone Looking Forward to The Hobbit? The elves are going to be a bit of a problem anyway, I think - the difference between their appearance and demeanour in The Hobbit and in LotR is marked, to say the least... Female characters? In The Hobbit? Sacrilege, say I...  |
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