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Peter Jackson won't be directing The Hobbit
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... but somebody else will 
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Also it seems that they plan on making ...
... Silmarillion? Doubt it.
As it was rumored that they will split The Hobbit into two movies this could lead to another trilogy without any involvement of Jackson and probably also without Weta who have created the physical effects for the previous movies.
I seriously doubt that these new movies will tie in neatly with the previous ones or have the same feel to them.
This all reeks suckage.
[spoiler:317779769f]Uwe Boll's : The Hobbit![/spoiler:317779769f]
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However last week, Mark Ordesky called Ken and told him that New Line would no longer be requiring our services on the Hobbit and the LOTR 'prequel'. This was a courtesy call to let us know that the studio was now actively looking to hire another filmmaker for both projects.
Also it seems that they plan on making ...
a second "LOTR prequel", covering the events leading up to those depicted in LOTR.
... Silmarillion? Doubt it.
As it was rumored that they will split The Hobbit into two movies this could lead to another trilogy without any involvement of Jackson and probably also without Weta who have created the physical effects for the previous movies.
I seriously doubt that these new movies will tie in neatly with the previous ones or have the same feel to them.
This all reeks suckage.
[spoiler:317779769f]Uwe Boll's : The Hobbit![/spoiler:317779769f]
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Now, personally, even in LOTR's appendix there isn't a ton of info on the time between The Hobbit and LOTR, and definitely not enough to make a good movie out of, IMHO. If this latest development is true, then I don't see myself watching them. Not that they won't be good.. It just is never a good sign when a film company tries to sever ties to the director and special effects studio. It implies to me that they don't wish to pay the fair market value for Jackson's talents.
Edit: Reading the letter, it sounds like New Line was in a harsh position. I never, ever knew that the LOTR rights were on a time-limited basis. And while Jackson's merits are 100% spot on about tying the movie to the settlement, it does make sense that New Line is going ahead with a different director.
It's just a shame that such implies New Line might be time rushed to make these two films. =/ I get a really bad vibe about this.
This reeks of suckage.
Do you think they will even get Ian McKellen as Gandalf without Jackson directing?
edit : ... or Andy Serkis ... argh. This is getting worse and worse the longer I think about it.
Oh shit!
I seriously hope so
I can't wait to see what ultimate evil will be faced by Bilbo, Aragorn, Gandalf, Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy and Doc between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I also can't wait until, at the end, when their memories are erased and nobody speaks of those events again when Lord of the Rings comes about.
Assholes.
New Line? Why you make me hurt you?
Not all vampires suck blood.
Not all of them die for love.
Basically, I'm fucked.
And seriously, practically nothing interesting happened during the beginning of the Third Age. The Fall of Numenor and the end of the Second Age? Now we're getting somewhere.
Lord of the Rings: Return to Middle Earth
Lord of the Rings: Frodo gets hated on by the Hobbits cuz he left them
Lord of the Rings: Everybody gets the hell out of Middle Earth
FUCK-fuckity-FUCK-fuck-fuck
that spoiler had better be a joke or I'm goin' for three big nails an' some lumber
It will be revealed that a ring bearers power stands in relation to his/her midiclorian level.
The link is broken though, is there a working one?
Kinda like Terminator 3, Rambo 5(6? i've lost count) and all other really late STEREOTYPED sequels will be. I mean the number of jokes made about Lotr Sequels and ... why can't they just go "this was a huge success, now let's make a movie WITH A SIMULAR CONCEPT", rather than "it was a huge success, now let's make the same movie again". Are producers really stupid? I don't get it...
- "Proving once again the deadliest animal of all ... is the Zoo Keeper" - Philip J Fry
Doesn't the beginning of LOTR (the books, at least) imply that Bilbo was wandering around doing adventurous stuff for at least part of the interim?
I think it was saying that he did some wondering around, but never got the chance to do any interesting adventures since the group with the dwarves.
LOTR: How Bilbo Got His Grove Back
Gollum movie?
Seriously, the only event that comes to mind for me is that Gollum got out of his cave, traveled around for a bit and then got caught by the wood elves. He lived with them for awhile before escaping and then Aragorn and Gandalf tried hunting him down, but he eluded them. That enough for a movie?
Wasn't there a necromancer that ended up being Sauron's power incarnate?
I'm not much of a lore-fiend and I never read the Simarillion so someone can clear up the details.
There were some skirmishes and battles on Gondor, of course, and Sauron was massing some armies, but none of it is particularly fleshed out. I GUESS you could talk about some of Boromir's campaigns and get some background on him and Faramir, if you really wanted to. I don't see it working out well, though, especially now that Peter Jackson isn't involved.
I'm seeing a poster of Bilbo all painted up, face half submerged in water, for Francis Ford Coppala's The Hobbit. And its taking the edge off, but not in a reassuring manner.
OH FORGET IT!
And I kind of doubt Boromir's adventures are good enough to build a decent plot around, all he did was chopchop some Orcs.
But they won't do that. And so it will probably fuck canon square in the ass, and such in the process.
I'm thinking this is the only way they could make a second prequel to the trilogy.
The Necromancer was Sauron. He was based in the fortress Dol Guldur, which is in southern Mirkwood, where Legolas is from. He directed some invasions, did some other bad stuff, and eventually, Gandalf went off to investigate and discovered that the Necromancer was Sauron. From there, Sauron allowed himself to be driven out of Dol Guldur by the White Council, and made plans to catch everyone off guard by rebuilding Barad-dur and preparing for the war in the trilogy.
If I remember correctly, Gandalf actually leaves Bilbo for a little while during the Hobbit, and why he actually left was to take care of the business in Dol Guldur.
It's the only logical excuse for making a second prequel, but personally, I can't see it working as a movie. It's really nothing more than a footnote in the grand scheme of things and it would probably end up being really dull unless they played it up and turned it into some big epic event. Plus, it would really diminish the tension in Fellowship of the Ring if we already knew Sauron was out and about, causing trouble.
Elephant love?
He can still do good, but perhaps not intentionally. He's violently anti-social and paranoid, plus if they get the actor from the trilogy I'd be willing to watch him escape capture for 2 hours.
Of course this means EA will make a stealth game where you play as a gray frog-man but that's just par for the course.
Heh, forgot about that stuff.
There's what, 50-60 years between the Hobbit and LOTR right? Depending on when they do it that could write out Boromir and Faramir, and most any other human characters besides Aragorn.
While there might be enough material to fill 2 hours (Aragorn doing stuff, Gollum, Sauron, small battles here and there) the problem is that it's all pretty much unconnected, and it'd be really hard to tie into a single story.
So effectively it's about 90 years between the beginning of Bilbo's journey and the beginning of Frodo's. Am I accurate here? At any case, there's a LONG time between these events.