Saru
Jul 19 2004, 04:11 PM
This today from digitalspy.co.uk:
A prequel movie to The Lord of the Rings is one step closer to reality, MRIB reports today.
Film studio New Line have been unable to commence pre-production on The Hobbit because rival studio MGM currently holds the distribution rights to the book.
MGM is currently up for sale and Time Warner - owners of New Line and Warner Bros. Pictures - is the most likely candidate to buy the company.
Such a deal would unite all parties involved with The Hobbit and plans for the adaptation would be able to get underway.
The website adds that Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is still "very keen" to head up the project.
Fingers crossed
Aezy
Jul 19 2004, 04:21 PM
*does a happy dance* Woooooooooooooo!! I can't wait!!!
The hoobit's always been my favourite book of Tolkiens....
Fluffybunny
Jul 19 2004, 04:21 PM
That would be great. They definately have a built in fan base that would guarantee them good sales too.
I like hobbits...they are nice and happy little people, with big feet...
You know what they say about big feet right?
Kellalor
Jul 19 2004, 09:20 PM
Great!
I'd love to see it. The Hobbit is my favorite book by Tolkien.
AztecInca
Jul 20 2004, 01:13 AM
Cant wait till they make this movie.....with peter jackson(hopefully doing it, it should completly blow us away.
BurnSide
Jul 20 2004, 01:18 AM
I'd love to see this! The book was so good, i wanna see how they'd pull off Smaug and the Trolls and yay for Gollum making a return to cinema.
As long as they can get ALL the same actors (Bilbo, Gandalf, Gollum, Elrond pretty much all they need really) and locations (Shire, Rivendell) then it'll be a massive hit.
Talon
Jul 20 2004, 01:31 AM
Rumour has it that Elijah Wood was asked during the making of LotR that if they ever did the Hobbit would he play Biblo. Which is kinda stupid since Biblo did not age between the Hobbit and LotR due to the ring so would still look like Ian Holm, plus Ian Holm was in the intro shot of the Hobbit scene in FoTR. Plus, everyone assoccaites Wood with Frodo... its stupid.
Oh well, despite that the movie will be good, possibly better than LotR since the Hobbit's pace never slows down and they just go from action to action. Also since its only a few hundred pages long a lot of it wont be cut out.
BurnSide
Jul 20 2004, 01:33 AM
Wow, if they cast Wood for bilbo that would be REALLY stupid. Holm and Wood don't look a thing like each other.
Janiel
Jul 20 2004, 03:04 AM
very very stupid...
bobotheman
Jul 20 2004, 07:51 AM
i second that for janiel...
Erikl
Jul 20 2004, 01:52 PM
Don't worry fellas, I've seen the trailer, and Ian Holm plays there as Bilbo, and indeed it is directed by Peter Jackson.
Saru
Jul 20 2004, 01:58 PM
Although I agree that Ian Holm would make the ideal Bilbo in The Hobbit, the trailor you saw was probably a fake,
this also from Digitalspy.co.uk:
A fake movie trailer for Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit has made its way onto the internet.
The fantasy two-minute clip - available here - was created by 26-year-old film studies student Steve Latham, using clips from The Fellowship of the Ring and 1981 movie Dragonslayer.
The trailer, which has gained acclaim from many fans of the books, gives a release date of December 19, 2006.
Production on the movie - should it go ahead at all - will not be able to begin until director Peter Jackson has finished shooting a remake of King Kong. Meanwhile, film studio New Line is still in negotiations with MGM to acquire the distribution rights to the book.
Seraphina
Jul 20 2004, 02:14 PM
| QUOTE |
| You know what they say about big feet right? |
They wear big shoes?
Erikl
Jul 20 2004, 02:34 PM
I hate people who do things like that....
*sigh*...
kreestar
Jul 20 2004, 04:41 PM
I can't wait. I was hoping for a prequel.
Talon
Jul 20 2004, 09:08 PM
Technilcally though, since the Hobbit was written first, shouldn't it be called the original and LotR the sequal?
freaky6
Jul 21 2004, 01:47 AM
Yeah, but LOTR's was made into a film first, so that's how many people will refer to it...........if there is a movie, I hope Jackson does direct and the same actors will do the parts because then it won't seem right.
Then people will finally get the whole story.
hunterkiller2001
Jul 21 2004, 04:39 AM
technically, the hobbit was just a prologue to the LoTR series.
In fact, portions of the fellowship we're written prior to the Hobbit.
If you want to start from the beginning.. read The Silmarillion.
Starlyte
Jul 21 2004, 09:08 PM
I am so excited that they may get to make this movie!!! I just can't get enough of LOTR! Plus, I want to see how well they do Smaug!
Talon
Jul 22 2004, 04:02 AM
| QUOTE |
| In fact, portions of the fellowship we're written prior to the Hobbit. |
Are you sure,
the Hobbit was written for his kids when they were 10 or something, he didn't even think of publishing until a friend mentioned. At the time of writting the Hobbit, LotR wasn't even in his thoughts, thats why the rings isn't that major to the story in Hobbit, its just something Biblo got to make him a successful Burgular like he was suppost to be.
| QUOTE |
| If you want to start from the beginning.. read The Silmarillion. |
Got it, never read it. So many weird names.
The Cheat
Jul 24 2004, 05:00 AM
| QUOTE (Seraphina @ Jul 20 2004, 10:14 AM) |
| QUOTE | | You know what they say about big feet right? |
They wear big shoes? |
but hobbits dont wear shoes....
Talon
Jul 24 2004, 11:22 PM
| QUOTE |
| You know what they say about big feet right? |
They live in North America?
1Day@aTime
Jul 30 2004, 04:07 PM
I just hope that they don't leave out the part where the Group goes to Beorn's place. When they made the cartoon of the Hobbit...years and years ago...that was like..the ONLY part they left out in the ENTIRE book!!!! makes me mad.
SO yeah...i just hope they include
that part...that would be awesome. Who else has seen the cartoon version? not the new digitally restored one, but the original one?
BurnSide
Jul 30 2004, 04:09 PM
I watched three mins of it, it was horrible.
Talon
Jul 30 2004, 04:52 PM
| QUOTE |
| Who else has seen the cartoon version? not the new digitally restored one, but the original one? |
Me, I imported it and the cartoon Return of the King from the States around the same time as very DBZ DVD Amazon was selling. It was..... okay for a child, but for for someone who was read The Hobbit by his parents since he was two before reading it twice a year for himself since the age of seven... it was apawling.
I never did bother to watch the cartoon of Return of the King.
1Day@aTime
Jul 30 2004, 10:23 PM
Yeah...don't even bother watching the rest of the series...i have them all and it sucks. I babysit a lot...so the kids always pop in the movies. Though for me, i watched The Hobbit on the cartoon before i read the book...but after reading it, it is disappointing. Espically the re-digitalized version...they totally screwed up with the sound.
Talon
Aug 1 2004, 10:18 PM
I like the cartoon of Lord of the Rings... probably cause it was made during the 70s and took itself series.
CaitSith
Aug 10 2006, 10:56 PM
Wow its been a long time since anyone has talked about this, is there still a "There and Back Again" or "Hobbit" movie in the making?
punish3ment
Aug 10 2006, 11:11 PM
i saw a trailer for the hobbit, all the way back in 04, it said it was being released in December 2006, I can't remember the site, but I doubt they would have had a trailer all the way back then, but it did look like the hobbit, it had a few shost of smaug too.
CaitSith
Aug 11 2006, 03:29 AM
They said on this thread that it was a hoax, student film. Made from clips of The Fellowship of the Ring and Dragon Slayer.
Boff
Aug 11 2006, 03:40 AM
Ive always loved The Hobbit. One of my favourite books by far. Read it so many times.
I've been waiting for the movie for soooome time now. I cant wait till it finally gets made!
Anubi
Aug 11 2006, 04:01 AM
I played that hobbit game on the commodore 64 and got right to the end and could never beat that dragon, i hated all hobbits and dragons for an eternity after that.. but all is forgiven now and am looking forwad to this film )
woody82
Aug 11 2006, 02:01 PM
The movie should be good, and well i don't think Jacko has let us down on one film yet, hopefully it comes out within the next two years or so, but the hobbit book was a great read.
Only thing will he do it over say two or three films or over one, as well i feel if it was just one film it would be slightly rushed lots of important events etc.
Celumnaz
Aug 11 2006, 02:25 PM
QUOTE(1Day@aTime @ Jul 30 2004, 11:07 AM) [snapback]219888[/snapback]
I just hope that they don't leave out the part where the Group goes to Beorn's place. When they made the cartoon of the Hobbit...years and years ago...that was like..the ONLY part they left out in the ENTIRE book!!!! makes me mad.
SO yeah...i just hope they include
that part...that would be awesome. Who else has seen the cartoon version? not the new digitally restored one, but the original one?
Seen em, got the comic/record collection too with the soundtrack and read-along...
Right On about Beorn!!!!! He's pretty important too... I'm still mad about Tom Bombadil.
Beorn Rocks.
Just realized... there was no Radagast...
Firien
Sep 14 2006, 04:37 AM
so is it going to be made or what?? the more fantasy movies i can go see the better. and the hobbit could be done so well. i loved the story!
BurnSide
Sep 14 2006, 01:12 PM
Yes, as a matter of fact it is. MGM has announced they're going to be doing the movie in part with New Line. No word yet if Peter Jackson will direct or if the LotR cast will return though.
http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16424
Firien
Sep 14 2006, 01:52 PM
Burnside, reading that made my day!!!! I cant wait!
BurnSide
Sep 14 2006, 02:30 PM
Welcome. I wish there was more info.
Pelican_Eel
Sep 14 2006, 06:03 PM
The Hobbit was the only book I read by Tolkien. I'm not a big fan of it, as well as LOTR movies... But I like Smaug, it would be fun to see
Firien
Sep 15 2006, 12:40 AM
But! How could the cast come back? It ws before all that..completely seperate. So how could they come back? I hope they make it in the same way. I loved the journey part of it. But not the part he got eaten by a tree. well not eaten but sucked in then pulled out..That was in it right or am I remembering wrong?
BurnSide
Sep 15 2006, 12:47 PM
It's not completely seperate, there are still many of the same characters. Gandalf, Gollum, Bilbo, Elrond for example. If the Hobbit is going to be done, they need to have the same actors playing these roles as in LotR, otherwise it wont fit.
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