The Hobbit
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Personally, I don't see what the deal is with the two companies. Just sitting on the rights isn't making anyone any money. Since LOTR made so much money there is a good chance this one will be a hit as well. Why not just combine efforts and co-produce it? Spit the money.
While I'm not the biggest LOTR fan, I would want Jackson to direct and the same production values used so all 4 movies flow together as one world.
While I'm not the biggest LOTR fan, I would want Jackson to direct and the same production values used so all 4 movies flow together as one world.
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Originally Posted by resinrats
Personally, I don't see what the deal is with the two companies. Just sitting on the rights isn't making anyone any money. Since LOTR made so much money there is a good chance this one will be a hit as well. Why not just combine efforts and co-produce it.
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don't forget we may also see a child Aragorn. He was staying in Rivendell at the end of this story.
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
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Originally Posted by Rivero
don't forget we may also see a child Aragorn. He was staying in Rivendell at the end of this story.
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
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The Silmarillion... Man, that'd be so awesome. I think the way to go about it, though, would be to just pick a few of the stories from The Silmarillion and make those into their own (3 hour) movies. Trying to adapt the entire thing into a movie series would be a bad idea for a lot of reasons.
I wouldn't want it as a TV series, though, because there's no way it would look or feel a tenth as real as the LOTR movies. If more Middle-earth history is to be presented, quality should take precedence over quantity.
I wouldn't want it as a TV series, though, because there's no way it would look or feel a tenth as real as the LOTR movies. If more Middle-earth history is to be presented, quality should take precedence over quantity.
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Originally Posted by Duder
I think the way to go about it, though, would be to just pick a few of the stories from The Silmarillion and make those into their own (3 hour) movies.
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Originally Posted by Groucho
I can't believe you left out Gollum. Turn in your "Middle Earth Fan Club" badge to the nearest membership office immediately.
I guess it was just so dark in those caves that I forgot I saw him there...
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Originally Posted by RevLiver
Okay, it's been a few years since I read the Hobbit, but aren't those hobbits not in the story? Isn't it about Bilbo and the dwarves and Gandalf on a quest to defeat Smaug and Bilbo finds the ring?
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So all the hobbit stars are coming back on Peter Jackson's 'personal' New Zealand farm property, they're pushing Peter to do it and are very eager? Do you know what i smell? I smell a homoerotic hobbit orgy complete with grainy video.
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Originally Posted by Rivero
don't forget we may also see a child Aragorn. He was staying in Rivendell at the end of this story.
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
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Originally Posted by Seeker
True - we could see Elrond, a child Aragorn, and an adult Arwen.
Actually, I think Aragorn was a man then as well. Since he is one of the Dunedein, he was able to live into his seventies (which is where he was in LOTR) and maintain his looks.
If he is a child, then I think it would be neat to see Arwen playing with him.
The best way to do Silmarillion, IMO, is to make it with a semi-biopic of Tolkien. It has been noted that Tolkien wrote a lot of what became the Silmarillion during WWI, so the movie could cut between Tolkien writing and only show the major parts of the book as he writes.
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Originally Posted by Rivero
After he finishes The Hobbit here's hoping Jackson decides to make another three-epic trilogy covering the events in The Silmarillion.
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Originally Posted by Dr. DVD
Actually, I think Aragorn was a man then as well. Since he is one of the Dunedein, he was able to live into his seventies (which is where he was in LOTR) and maintain his looks.
If he is a child, then I think it would be neat to see Arwen playing with him.
If he is a child, then I think it would be neat to see Arwen playing with him.
If I have my timelines right, Bilbo was about 50 when he went on the adventures, and eleventy-one when he had his birthday party, and (Jackson notwithstanding) 17 years passed after that (Frodo went from 33 to 50) when Frodo left.
So - say 78 years from the Hobbit to Frodo taking off.
Yeah, if that's right, Aragorn was a little boy when Bilbo passed through, and Arwen looked then like Arwen did in the movies, of course.
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How about a sequel to The Lord Of The Rings? Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but how cool would it be to see the continuing adventures of at least some of the characters from the trilogy?
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Originally Posted by Barry Woodward
How about a sequel to The Lord Of The Rings? Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but how cool would it be to see the continuing adventures of at least some of the characters from the trilogy?
I'm kidding of course....
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Well, Tolkien actually began writing a sequel, though he didn't get very far. He probably realized the idea was bad.
I'm sure Barry Woodward was joking, but it is an interesting issue. There's no reason followup stories couldn't happen as long as they didn't involve the One Ring or Sauron (that would just be lame, and it would undercut the significance of LOTR). Middle-earth does not cease to exist with the departure of the elves and the beginning of the Fourth Age. While a followup wouldn't be as grand of a story as saving all of Middle-earth from a disembodied Dark Lord, it could still be plenty interesting. Assuming, of course, Tolkien had completed post-LOTR stories, which he hadn't. And if we're really that desparate for more Middle-earth, there's a wealth of additional pre-LOTR story material found in The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. I'd say there's enough between all those books to support at least 6 more 3-hour movies (and they wouldn't have to be filmed as one large project either).
I'm sure Barry Woodward was joking, but it is an interesting issue. There's no reason followup stories couldn't happen as long as they didn't involve the One Ring or Sauron (that would just be lame, and it would undercut the significance of LOTR). Middle-earth does not cease to exist with the departure of the elves and the beginning of the Fourth Age. While a followup wouldn't be as grand of a story as saving all of Middle-earth from a disembodied Dark Lord, it could still be plenty interesting. Assuming, of course, Tolkien had completed post-LOTR stories, which he hadn't. And if we're really that desparate for more Middle-earth, there's a wealth of additional pre-LOTR story material found in The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. I'd say there's enough between all those books to support at least 6 more 3-hour movies (and they wouldn't have to be filmed as one large project either).