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You do stove dinner, vison, or at least you would if Daily Variety was reporting on it. "Helmer" is part of their annoying dialect, which includes referring to films as "pic" without even an article throughout stories on them, not just in headlines. "Pic garnered hefty critical mitt despite Orlando Bloom."
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I have a week spot for Variety jargon, if for no other reason than it gave us "boffo" as a word. :D
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heard this yesterday v. depressing, hope beyond hope that Cuaron might take the job
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If only Neil Jordan wasn't busy with The Graveyard Book...
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Peter Weir. . . .
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Just imagine what Woody Allen could do with the story. ;)
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Or Michael Bay, for that matter.
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Primula Baggins wrote:Or Michael Bay, for that matter.
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Kidding, kidding . . . as I hope Wampus was. . . . ;)
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Would I kid about something as important as the director of "The Hobbit"?

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Michael Bay doesn't direct movies without guns so no worries there.
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yovargas wrote:Michael Bay doesn't direct movies without guns so no worries there.
With a tiny bit of phantasy maybe... ;)
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Guns and stuff blowing up, yes. But why should we demand that a film adaptation cling strictly to the text? If the result is a fresh perspective on a book that was (after all) written more than seven decades ago? Surely no one alive in this century has any interest in the mossy, hidebound limitations imposed by an earlier era of thought. Or will pony up $10 to watch twee fat guys in waistcoats offer each other tea and sing.
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That's the spirit, Prim. ;) Why not having Zack Snyder direct The Hobbit and we can look forward to a cartoon-ish movie à la 300? "This is the SHIRE!!!!!!" :P

No big sets required, just CGI.
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Snyder was just being faithful to the cartoonish source material, which was, you know, a cartoonish comic book. ;)
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axordil wrote:Snyder was just being faithful to the cartoonish source material, which was, you know, a cartoonish comic book. ;)
Yes, I'm aware of that and I only tried to imagine Hobbits and Dwarfs that way, if the alternatives were a Michael Bay or a Woddy Allen movie. ;)
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Well, there were games based on the book so we could always get Uwe Boll!
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Low blow. :nono:

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Actually Stephen Frears would be interesting too. And with Jack Black being in both High Fidelity and King Kong, he's only one degree of separation from PJ already. :D
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Interesting article from the Guardian. Not that I agree with all of it, but at least they know what they're talking about.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog ... the-hobbit
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