"The greatest trick the Hobbit ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
Posted on 04/24/2008 4:22:33 PM PDT by maquiladora
Uhhh ... what sequel? Bilbo returning home and living quietly for 60 years? That's how I remember the story.
two and a half hours of baking and eating. numm numm
Yeah, one of my favorite films of the last several years. I’m also looking forward to HellBoy II this summer.
I suspect they will create a new story about the Hobbits, including his nephew, Frodo, and perhaps about the battles in which young Aragorn and Theoden, King of Rohan, faced together.
And tossing down many a mug of “old Wineyard” wine (1296 vintage, a very good year). ;-)
Ugghh... I hope he doesn’t insert some kind of ‘subtle’ message like he did with Pan.
I’m afraid you’re right. They’re playing with fire if they do that. The story says the project has been tied up in litigation. Is taking liberties with the canon the reason?
One Ping to rule them all. One Ping only, please.
Hey, check out PJ! He’s lost a whole lot of weight.
Shame about the hair, still.
See, I found “Pan’s Labyrinth” impenetrable. And I was paying attention and everything. It was visually impressive, but the story left me cold.
I was intrigued when I clicked this thread - I thought it’d be Benicio Del Toro, and frankly I would LOVE to see what he makes of “The Hobbit.”
I didn’t even notice until you mentioned it! He really is taking it off.
There’s lots of material to use, more than just “There and Back Again”. Sounds like they’re going to tell some of the other stories and legends.
It could get out of hand. But I’ll be happy if they just get TABA right... the rest, mostly in the sequel I hope, is just sauce.
Or... they tell the other stories in flashback, interwoven through the basic TABA story, so we don’t meet Smaug until the second movie. Dang... I’ll bet that’s what they do.
Keep in mind too that there was a major event in that intervening 60 years: The Necromancer was driven out of Dol Guldur by the White Council, whereupon he revealed himself to be Sauron and reclaimed Barad Dur. There’s enough material there to make for an exciting movie all by itself.
"The greatest trick the Hobbit ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."
“Pan’s Labyrinth” was an anti-Catholic, pro-communist piece of dreck. With the built-in audience, this doesn’t bode well for Tolkien.
I am with you. Pan’s Labyrinth was unwatchable. And when the Falangist literally smashed the herder’s face in I thought it was a spliced in scene from Hostel II - either that or del Toro was channeling Eli Roth.
Post of the day!
What I’ve heard is they think there’s a lot of history between the “A” story of the Hobbit, and the beginning of Fellowship, and there is. Much of it is just alluded to in the books, or buried in the Appendices...
Not sure how they’ll weave it in, but there’s meetings of the White Council and the throwing the Necromancer out of Mirkwood, there’s Gandalf and Aragorn searching all over the place for Gollum, and finding that he had already been to Mordor and spilled his guts.
I don’t know how they’ll weave it into the story... Lots of “meanwhile” cuts, probably ;~)
I’m not familiar with Del Toro, or Pan’s Labrinth, but the LOTR fans from theonering.net have been pretty excited about this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.