The Hobbit, Part Deux

[r. mutt]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17549

As for The Hobbit, Sloan confirmed that MGM was in advanced talks with Peter Jackson to make two movies based on JRR Tolkien's "prequel" to "The Lord of the Rings."

The first would be a direct adaptation of The Hobbit, and the second would be drawn from "footnotes and source material connecting 'The Hobbit' with 'Lord of the Rings,'" he explained.

An MGM spokesman emphasized that negotiations with Jackson are still in progress, and that production isn't likely until 2008 or even 2009.

So what are we talking about here...Sauron wakes up and starts running the elves out of Middle Earth? Gandalf learns the ring is out and about and quests for it? Alatar and Pallando killed? What?

[Levin]

Originally Posted by r. mutt

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17549

So what are we talking about here...Sauron wakes up and starts running the elves out of Middle Earth? Gandalf learns the ring is out and about and quests for it? Alatar and Pallando killed? What?

Am I right that there was precious little explicitly told about Aragorn's mother in the movie, just a brief scene in the Extended FOTR at her grave? Aragorn's associations with the fathers of Theoden and Denethor were only briefly mentioned. We saw precious little about the Dunedain and what they actually did. I think the second one could easily be all-Aragorn.

[yankeetripper]

Originally Posted by Levin

Am I right that there was precious little explicitly told about Aragorn's mother in the movie, just a brief scene in the Extended FOTR at her grave? Aragorn's associations with the fathers of Theoden and Denethor were only briefly mentioned. We saw precious little about the Dunedain and what they actually did. I think the second one could easily be all-Aragorn.

The Hobbit would be really cool.

If they cobble a bunch of crap from the LORT appendexies, the Simarialian, or any of Tolkien's Lost Tales. OMG, what a friggin waste of time. And that's coming from a big fan of some of that boring crap. I just can't possibly see them making that work. Either they piss of the general public by boring them to death staying true to the material or they piss of the hard core fans by making up a bunch of interesting stuff for a movie that has little or nothing to do with the source material.

[whisper]

Originally Posted by yankeetripper

Either they piss of the general public by boring them to death staying true to the material or they piss of the hard core fans by making up a bunch of interesting stuff for a movie that has little or nothing to do with the source material.

I don't know if they'll piss off the hard core fans if they make a good movie tying the two together. They'll piss off the hard core fans if they make a bad movie tying the two together. (See Star Wars I-III)

[Jack]

There is a cartoone version of the Hobbit.

Am I the only one who thinks Jackson's interpretation of the LOTR trilogy sucked moose balls?

[yankeetripper]

Originally Posted by Jack

There is a cartoone version of the Hobbit.

Am I the only one who thinks Jackson's interpretation of the LOTR trilogy sucked moose balls?

The cartoon version is actually pretty good. They cut a few parts out in the interest of time but kept to actual story very well.

I liked Jackson's LOTR trilogy. Other than a bucnh of made up crap in the 2nd movie it followed the books pretty well.

[Alto Reed on a Tenor Sax]

Originally Posted by Jack

There is a cartoone version of the Hobbit.

Am I the only one who thinks Jackson's interpretation of the LOTR trilogy sucked moose balls?

No. But it IS just the two of us.

[Pseudolus]

Originally Posted by Levin

Am I right that there was precious little explicitly told about Aragorn's mother in the movie, just a brief scene in the Extended FOTR at her grave? Aragorn's associations with the fathers of Theoden and Denethor were only briefly mentioned. We saw precious little about the Dunedain and what they actually did. I think the second one could easily be all-Aragorn.

Hmmmm...

[Pseudolus]

Originally Posted by Jack

There is a cartoone version of the Hobbit.

The song from that still gets stuck in my head sometimes.

[yankeetripper]

Originally Posted by Pseudolus

The song from that still gets stuck in my head sometimes.

you mean this one?

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is there if you're bold.
Let go of the moment that life makes you hold.
To measure the meaning can make you delay;
It's time you stop thinkin' and wasting the day.

The man who's a dreamer and never takes leave
Who thinks of a world that is just make-believe
Will never know passion, will never know pain.
Who sits by the window will one day see rain.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.