General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)

[eborr]

thinking about Mitchell, there is an element of the snide, or the knowing if you want to be polite about it, that comes across on the hundreds of quiz shows that he presents or is a panel member on, this is the last thing we need from Bilbo. I always thought that hobbits of something of the innocent, or the naive which is so lacking in Brit "entertainers" of Mitchells generation
Pegg is an interesting idea, I think he does a good "everyman" and I liked his work in star trek

[Padme]

I've thought about Simon Pegg for Bilbo before, but I am not convinced, even though I love him to bits.

I know every one is going with Brits, but one Yank who might do the role justice would be...Paul Giamatti. No one can argue he isn't Hobbitity enough, plus the man can act and he is the right age to play the part.

[ToshoftheWuffingas]

Mitchell is naivity itself in Peep Show. The whole joke in all the series is the agonised inner debate he has between comfort, safety and doing the right thing. I think he is allowed to display a touch of modern sophistication when he isn't required to act a role.
I just think he can do comfortable, somewhat posh, confused upper middle class, out of his depth and cowardly very well with a core of decent values.
The contrast with the heroic Dark Age dwarves would be perfect

[Elentári]

Don't know how many of you were aware, but there is someone who claims to work for WETA , who posts on and off on TORC in the HOBBIT movie threads, at least. This was the latest news from them on Dec 31st:

Production is moving forward. Shooting starts in April we think. Previz on Sauron is pretty cool. Still no word on Christopher Lee's return.

Just thought I'd pass it on...

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Here's an article in Variety with quite a curveball in it:

Leaner New Line ready for a tentpole again
With a tighter focus, Toby Emmerich readies a pair of "Hobbit" pics

[Warner's chief Michael] Horn won't predict when the first of the two "Hobbit" films will be out, but says the most probable scenario would be a release in the fourth quarter of 2012.

[Inanna]

Doomsday, indeed.

[Dave_LF]

I'm thinking maybe I backed off my prediction that this movie would never be made a little too soon.

[Elentári]

It's okay...we don't have to wait that long...

Periannath.com presents — in association with copyright infringement — Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming two part film masterpiece The Hobbit — comprised entirely of screencaps from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy!



http://periannath.com/feature/guillermo ... rt-1-of-3/

[Alatar]

Awesome!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Yes. Truly laugh out loud classic.

[Primula Baggins]

Hilarious!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Nice little video of Sir Ian talking about the prospect of playing Gandalf again:

Sir Ian McKellen on playing Gandalf again

[Elentári]

The Hobbit Revisits 3-D Conversation

Rumors The Hobbit might be filmed in 3-D have been around for some time and dismissed often by Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson . Even last fall, del Toro stated on the TORN message boards:

“As a co-writer and director of this film … let me be very clear one more time: we are not talking about 3D, we are NOT writing the screenplay for 3D right now.

However, he did add this caveat:

If after “Avatar” the market may change and demands are put upon us, etc that is in the future. But if such things happen and we start discussing 3D down the line, I’ll let it be know here at TORN because that’s the proper way of doing things.

True to his word, del Toro has now added an update via the TORN forum:

I wouldn’t read much on it just yet, but now, after all this time, after AVATAR doing the Box Office it did, we have had enquires from above about The Hobbit being in 3-D. No impositions or heavy leaning. Just enquires. Just fulfilling my promise to let you all know if discussions ever started. Cheers, GDT

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/

[Alatar]

I would have been stunned if they didn't seriously consider it. And I'll again reiterate my opinion that it need not be a bad thing. If 3D is treated as it was in Avatar, as simply another colour in the artist's palette, then I'm all for it.

[yovargas]

I'm not at all opposed to 3D. I think the potential in a good artist's hand is huge. But the idea of the studio asking it to be shoehorned in in the hope of bigger profits:
Let's hope that's not what'll happen here. It'll certainly happen elsewhere in the post-Avatar world.

[Frelga]

I am pretty sure that's exactly what is happening. I am also pretty sure that marvelous things can be done with 3D to bring Middle-earth to an even more vivid life, so it's probably not a bad thing.

[Primula Baggins]

You can retrofit existing films to 3D. The analogy I saw used for that was colorizing black and white classics . . . a fad that died out fast, thank goodness, once people realized that crisply shot black and white is a lot more "colorful" than the muddy shades the colorization slapped on top of it.

I have still not seen Avatar (deadlines ) but I have my doubts that 3D will follow the path of color film. You didn't need special glasses or a special theater to enjoy a color movie, and once the process became cheap enough, there was no reason other than an artistic one to choose anything else.

But I'm a curmudgeon, and curmudgeons are usually wrong in the end.

[WampusCat]

I'm getting impatient to hear casting news. Any word at all?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I would have been stunned if they didn't seriously consider it. And I'll again reiterate my opinion that it need not be a bad thing. If 3D is treated as it was in Avatar, as simply another colour in the artist's palette, then I'm all for it.

Al, having seen Avatar in both 2-D and 3-D, I agree with you a 1000%. And that is coming from someone who was very skeptical about 3D beforehand. I really didn't think I would deal well with using the glasses over my own glasses, and I was worried that I would find the whole thing disorienting, but I didn't. It really was used to serve the story, rather than to replace the story. I would be very excited to see it used to serve a really great story, rather than a fairly unoriginal rehash full of tired cliches (it is a real credit to Cameron and his colleagues that I really enjoyed the film nonetheless).

[Inanna]

I think the Hobbit, and LOTR in 3D would be lovely. Imagine the first sight of Rivendell with depth. And the Battle of the five armies will be truly incredible in 3D.

So, in short, I agree with VtF and Alatar.