Q: Age target?
A: intense PG13
An Unexpected Party - live chat with PJ and Del Toro May 24
Q: same FX team?
GdT: many the same ... stick to as many original elements as possible. I will supplement the team with others
Q: talking animals - trolls, eagles, etc. ... speech was absent in LotR ... how about Hobbit?
GdT: definitely Smaug will talk. Re talking beasts, will do it exactly as in the book.
GdT: many the same ... stick to as many original elements as possible. I will supplement the team with others
Q: talking animals - trolls, eagles, etc. ... speech was absent in LotR ... how about Hobbit?
GdT: definitely Smaug will talk. Re talking beasts, will do it exactly as in the book.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Peter: Hobbit should have different tone (from LotR), the shadow is not so dark, however reality should stay the same as ME
Q: movies shot at same time?
GdT: back to back ... driven by locations/actors in use at any given time. Basically simultaneous whenever this is efficient
Q: movies shot at same time?
GdT: back to back ... driven by locations/actors in use at any given time. Basically simultaneous whenever this is efficient
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: was 10 year anniversary of FotR chosen deliberately as release date?
GdT: No, didn't realize it
Q: will there be assistant directors? Will PJ direct some of the movie?
PJ: most don't like asst directors - I wanted to do it all myself but couldn't. G. likes to do his own. I'd be happy to do some second unit stuff, anytime G. asked me to. But let's see how it goes.
GdT: No, didn't realize it
Q: will there be assistant directors? Will PJ direct some of the movie?
PJ: most don't like asst directors - I wanted to do it all myself but couldn't. G. likes to do his own. I'd be happy to do some second unit stuff, anytime G. asked me to. But let's see how it goes.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: more prosthetics a la Hellboy and PL? Or will WETA still do most by CGI?
GdT: Must have a mix, not let one take over. WETA is lead house, but we'll beef up with creature teams and prosthetics teams. Imagine a physical creature with radio controlled muscle/facial systems but with partial CGI for head or mouth, etc. and you'll start to get the idea ...
Q: when did you guys meet the first time?
PJ: At Bob Shay's house during the LotR movie party
GdT: we had a tray of shrimps together and agreed that New Line should keep hiring round, bearded directors with funny accents
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GdT: Must have a mix, not let one take over. WETA is lead house, but we'll beef up with creature teams and prosthetics teams. Imagine a physical creature with radio controlled muscle/facial systems but with partial CGI for head or mouth, etc. and you'll start to get the idea ...
Q: when did you guys meet the first time?
PJ: At Bob Shay's house during the LotR movie party
GdT: we had a tray of shrimps together and agreed that New Line should keep hiring round, bearded directors with funny accents
editing speed-typing typos
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Q: Peter, what's your role? What does an executive producer do?
Do you plan on writing the script again with F and P?
P: EP's do lots of things, from everything to nothing ....all four of us will be writing, will create the blueprint .... help G construct the moves
Q: wargs in Hobbit are different from wargs in LotR. Will it be so on film?
GdT: yes, will be faithful to talking wargs of the book
Do you plan on writing the script again with F and P?
P: EP's do lots of things, from everything to nothing ....all four of us will be writing, will create the blueprint .... help G construct the moves
Q: wargs in Hobbit are different from wargs in LotR. Will it be so on film?
GdT: yes, will be faithful to talking wargs of the book
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: video diaries ... oh wait, darn, GdT just posted a long entry from his notes on the movie. I'll have to read this, summarize and post it later
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Emphasized the "need to own" as the major theme of the book; Thorin's greed as a thematic extension of Smaug's greed; moral difficulty of Bilbo's decision to 'betray' Thorin.
Talked about the creation of Smaug ... how all movie dragons are modeled after a few basic successful ideas, and he wants to do something groundbreaking ... considered the presentation of Smaug before he considered anything else about the movie. The way Smaug is scaled, his movement, the lighting on him, how he is revealed to the audience, his "arrogance, intelligence, sophistication."
This was a lengthy treatise ... and there was another long entry by GdT regarding his view of fantasy literature. Probably best to read the whole transcript for these passages. Quite interesting to hear him talk about his ideas.
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Emphasized the "need to own" as the major theme of the book; Thorin's greed as a thematic extension of Smaug's greed; moral difficulty of Bilbo's decision to 'betray' Thorin.
Talked about the creation of Smaug ... how all movie dragons are modeled after a few basic successful ideas, and he wants to do something groundbreaking ... considered the presentation of Smaug before he considered anything else about the movie. The way Smaug is scaled, his movement, the lighting on him, how he is revealed to the audience, his "arrogance, intelligence, sophistication."
This was a lengthy treatise ... and there was another long entry by GdT regarding his view of fantasy literature. Probably best to read the whole transcript for these passages. Quite interesting to hear him talk about his ideas.
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: will PJ direct Hellboy III?
GdT: talks begun, too soon to say
Q: will White Council be in the Hobbit?
PJ: too early to say but under consideration
Q: How important is overall consistency with LotR?
GdT: the world must feel the same, aspect ratio etc. but I would love to bring a lot of new flavours to the table. The Hobbit is an overture to a symphonic work ...
PJ: I love G's syphonic allusion. The overture can have a different flavour and yet be a carefully crafted introduction .... Film two is perfect to dramatize the shift in ME that propels us into LotR ....
GdT: talks begun, too soon to say
Q: will White Council be in the Hobbit?
PJ: too early to say but under consideration
Q: How important is overall consistency with LotR?
GdT: the world must feel the same, aspect ratio etc. but I would love to bring a lot of new flavours to the table. The Hobbit is an overture to a symphonic work ...
PJ: I love G's syphonic allusion. The overture can have a different flavour and yet be a carefully crafted introduction .... Film two is perfect to dramatize the shift in ME that propels us into LotR ....
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: is the Hobbit easier to adapt?
PJ: both equally difficult in different ways
GdT: I am trying to preserve every idiosyncracy the novel has. Things that make it 'unfilmable' are what will make it thrilling ... want a living breathing narrative unfolding right then and there
PJ: both equally difficult in different ways
GdT: I am trying to preserve every idiosyncracy the novel has. Things that make it 'unfilmable' are what will make it thrilling ... want a living breathing narrative unfolding right then and there
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: Gollum arc?
A: there can't be too much Andy
Q: Production challenges?
A: both elaborated a bit on the usual challenges; this film not different from others in that respect
Q: From whence the material for the second film?
GdT: Idea is to enhance all five films visually and in cosmology. Enough licensed material available
PJ: really looking forward to film two... 60 year gap, lots going on for Gandalf .. may choose one short section of time to zoom in on and dramatize
A: there can't be too much Andy
Q: Production challenges?
A: both elaborated a bit on the usual challenges; this film not different from others in that respect
Q: From whence the material for the second film?
GdT: Idea is to enhance all five films visually and in cosmology. Enough licensed material available
PJ: really looking forward to film two... 60 year gap, lots going on for Gandalf .. may choose one short section of time to zoom in on and dramatize
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Q: big visual difference from Hobbit to LotR because of GdT's differing aesthetics?
GdT: basic pre-established designs will only be updated .. but think how much our world has changed from 2001 to now ... there will be room for stylistic differences
Oh dear, another long excerpt from pre-written stuff by GdT. Can't get all this, folks, and I'm afraid my screen will go away once the chat ends.
Tolkien channels an entire world, he says ... that is the sense he wants to capture
The long speech was in response to someone who said that GdT doesn't like Tolkien enough to do the movie. Wants PJ back.
GdT: basic pre-established designs will only be updated .. but think how much our world has changed from 2001 to now ... there will be room for stylistic differences
Oh dear, another long excerpt from pre-written stuff by GdT. Can't get all this, folks, and I'm afraid my screen will go away once the chat ends.
Tolkien channels an entire world, he says ... that is the sense he wants to capture
The long speech was in response to someone who said that GdT doesn't like Tolkien enough to do the movie. Wants PJ back.
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Goodbye's from both directors. Transcript WILL be available at WETA website in a few hours.
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Thank you for doing this, Jn! There are some very encouraging nuggets of news in there.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King