Del Toro and The Hobbit Movie

[Captain Faramir]

Well when it comes right down to it, The Hobbit could easily have been titled The Dwarves--after all, almost all of the main characters--more than a dozen!--were dwarves. I'm extremely interested to see how they deal with such a large group of characters where they all need to be distinct even when they're all hiding behind beards and cloaks. It's pretty hard to direct.

 

[FrodoEyes]

Hmm, I wouldn't call them main characters, apart from Thorin. Most of them get barely a word in. I think the number is seen as magical, especially as Bilbo is chosen as member number 14, so we don't get the unlucky number 13.
Obviously it was always going to be The Hobbit, as it's about the normal man (or Hobbit) learning about the world and pushing down boundaries.
I wonder if all of their names will be mentioned. Obviously they WILL all be named, but I wonder if they'll be referred to on screen. I hope they also don't have brightly coloured hoods, as that falls into the 'childlike' element of the story that Tolkien later admitted wasn't in tune with LOTR, writing off the tone of the Hobbit as Bilbo's child-like memoirs, which obviously became the Red Book, which is where I hope the film starts, with Ian Holm back as Bilbo beginning to write the book as in FOTR. Then we can have him write and say the line: "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit" Then we go to maybe a different actor as the story begins. That way Ian gets a good role that all the fans will be happy about, plus we get the famous line from the book to kick off the 5 films, and by the end of the films we end with that other famous line "Well, I'm back."

 

[Zoomaround]

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[Wetanut]

ahhhhhh! Wouldn't miss this for the world!

 

[goliath]

See you at the Unexpected Party!

Just registered - see you on the 24th!

 

[Captain Faramir]

Registered--thanks so much for telling us!!!

 

[pixletwin]

Registered--thanks so much for telling us!!!

Ditto that. Registered!

 

[The Josh]

Very cool! Will make sure I register

 

[yodasan]

An unexpected party on 24 May!

 

[Red]

Sounds Man 6am on a sunday.Might be up for it or i'll just put my trust in all you freaks to get the right answers.Have fun guys.

 

[gideon]

I will be happy to donate the first ten dollars to a fund to whack the bozo who wastes one of the 20 questions by asking

"will Ian Holm play Bilbo Baggins?"

 

[fool_of_a_took!]

I didn't think Hugo Weavings Acting in the LOTR Trilogy was that bad or Sean Bean's for that matter since we are saying who had stiff acting or not
But there were points in the film where I felt Miranda Otto as Eowyn was all round bad but half the time she nailed it

I agree on both.

I didnt care for the was Eowyn was portrayed either.

 

[FrodoEyes]

I think this will be a question of mine in the new questions - What he now thinks of this statement he made:

One idea I've got (if the trilogy is successful) would be to gather the cast together again and shoot another couple of hours worth of scenes to flesh out The Lord of the Rings as a more complete "Special Edition". In other words, we would write and shoot the Tom Bombadil stuff, or scenes involving Gandalf and Aragorn hunting Gollum, and his capture by Orcs ... and any number of other bits of business that we can't fit into the 6 hour version. That would be a really cool way of creating a "sequel" - expanding the existing The Lord of the Rings from 6 to 8 or 9 hours! It would be the first time that has ever been done (except for CE3K perhaps).
Anyway - one step at a time!

 

[Cmdr Gree]

I've been away from LOTR fandom for quite a while, but Del Toro's involvement is really good news. I couldn't think of a better director save for PJ himself.
I was especially stoked to hear about the second film, cause that means we'll likely see Sauron as the Necromancer! I'd love to see Glorfindel finally (fully) realized on screen as well!

 

[gideon]

Frodo Eyes .. great suggestion ... wonderful idea to get some of the previous cast together and use sets to add on to the LOTR films in other editions. Send that to Mr. Jackson ASAP.

Just please, no Tom Bombadil.

 

[goliath]

Frodo Eyes .. great suggestion ... wonderful idea to get some of the previous cast together and use sets to add on to the LOTR films in other editions. Send that to Mr. Jackson ASAP.

I think what FrodoEyes quoted was Mr. Jackson's statement... ;-)

 

[spaceman]

Well when it comes right down to it, The Hobbit could easily have been titled The Dwarves--after all, almost all of the main characters--more than a dozen!--were dwarves. I'm extremely interested to see how they deal with such a large group of characters where they all need to be distinct even when they're all hiding behind beards and cloaks. It's pretty hard to direct.

A related aside ... When I read LOTR originally, Merry and Pippin were something of a conglomerated single character for me. The film gave them such vivid and distinctive personalities that there was never any confusion or blurring. Perhaps the same will apply here to some degree ?

 

[Spideyfan]

Waiting will be the hardest part.

 

[Kratos]

Waiting will be the hardest part.

Yes sir it will be but I can wait.....I hope

 

[DinoLast]

Well, we pretty much knew this already but it has now been confirmed
https://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24610