Hobbit News

childeroland · May 31, 2010

It probably just doesn't have the money. According to Deadline, MGM has been able to meet its rights payment obligations for the The Hobbit but that's just about it. Warner ultimately has the greenlight but may not want to front the production costs alone or may be waiting to see if it can buy out MGM.

fredXgeorge · May 31, 2010

This sucks. I just want it to come out already!

LOG · Sep 27, 2010

Now we have union troubles to add to the mix

regdog · Sep 28, 2010

Just make the damn movie already

thothguard51 · Sep 28, 2010

It now seems the Hobbit could be filmed in eastern Europe due to labor trouble in New Zealand according to Peter Jackson. Even sir Ian McKellen has threaten to walk away. Another Gandalf is not going to work at this time...

http://the-hobbit-movie.com/2010/09/28/more-trouble-for-the-hobbit-movie/

I think the thing is, everyone has gotten greedy with this project because the first three made so much money. I am all for the studio’s and such making money, but lets get the damn show on the road. Its been what, five years now?

Yeshanu · Oct 16, 2010

At Last... (merged)

:Jump:

It's a go! :Jump:

Now I only hope it doesn't take three years to make the darn films!

And we should do a contest. How many times will Ruth see the two Hobbit films (if they do end up making two, which I believe is the plan) in theatres before they end up on DVD?

My LotR viewings in theatres for the three films are 19, 17 and 21 respectively, btw.

regdog · Oct 18, 2010

dclary · Oct 19, 2010

Yeshanu said:
It's a go!

Now I only hope it doesn't take three years to make the darn films!

And we should do a contest. How many times will Ruth see the two Hobbit films (if they do end up making two, which I believe is the plan) in theatres before they end up on DVD?

My LotR viewings in theatres for the three films are 19, 17 and 21 respectively, btw.

If you're in Portland we should see it together, along with baby Arwen!

WCP · Oct 21, 2010

I hope they cast a bunch of midgets a la Time Bandits. That would be more fun

Rowan · Oct 22, 2010

http://io9.com/5670428/peter-jackson-announces-the-hobbit-cast-including-martin-freeman-as-bilbo

Aidan Turner (smoldering hot vampire from BBC's Being Human) and Rob Kazinsky (EastEnders, Timeless) have been cast as the Dwarf brothers Kili and Fili. They're the nephews of Thorin and a bit comical at times. They are definitely the youngest of the bunch.

mellymel · Oct 22, 2010

dclary said:
If you're in Portland we should see it together, along with baby Arwen!

Wasn't sure what you meant by baby Arwen, but we named one of our twin daughters (now 4.5 years old) Arwen. Her sister is named Lorien

(with the accent over the o.)

yeah, we're fans. can't wait for this movie to come out. very exciting news.

LOG · Oct 23, 2010

Just found this
It includes pictures.

cyanz · Oct 27, 2010

thothguard51 said:
It now seems the Hobbit could be filmed in eastern Europe due to labor trouble in New Zealand according to Peter Jackson. Even sir Ian McKellen has threaten to walk away. Another Gandalf is not going to work at this time...

No, it's in NZ! the prime minister changed some laws today so they're staying in NZ...

LOG · Oct 27, 2010

Not all the problems are resolved.

LOG · Jan 8, 2011

Elijah Wood is confirmed as appearing.
It's a bit odd, but it's possible and he's been asked already (and agreed).
I'm confused, is Jackson heading this thing or not?
It's also going to be in two-parts. That'll make 5 LOTR films in total.

Now the challenge will be to prevent some film producer from trying to make a movie (series) out of the Silmarillion.

katiemac · Jan 8, 2011

Jackson's directing and producing. Elijah Wood's appearances (one in the first film, one in the second) are supposed to be, from what I understand, a sort of narrative framing device. He's not on the adventures with Bilbo.

Jackson is supposedly in talks with Orlando Bloom to appear, too.

LOG · Jan 12, 2011

McKellen is coming back.

nevada · Mar 20, 2011

They've started filming!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Jackson/141884481557

http://www.thehobbitblog.com/

strictlytopsecret · Apr 21, 2011

The Hobbit - filming is underway

Let the adventure begin!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150223186041807&oid=141884481557

~STS~

Camilla Delvalle · Apr 21, 2011

Yay! I wish I could be a member of the team making the film. It seems so fun.

Smileycat · Apr 21, 2011

strictlytopsecret said:
Let the adventure begin!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150223186041807&oid=141884481557

~STS~

Very nice indeed, STS! Thanks for posting the link.

Alessandra Kelley · Apr 21, 2011

Camilla Delvalle said:
Yay! I wish I could be a member of the team making the film. It seems so fun.

It does, doesn't it? On the other hand, writing looks like fun to non-writers. I bet it's going to be a lot of long, careful, tedious work to make that puppy.

Should be fun to watch when done, though.

Captain Scarf · Apr 21, 2011

I really hope they do a good job. My mother read The Hobbit to me as a child and I loved it.

lastlittlebird · Apr 21, 2011

Fingers crossed.
But it should be good... LoTR was good, with the main problem I found being that they tried to fit too much into it (the very long ending comes to mind) in order to remain true to the books....
The Hobbit seems like it would fit into film format much more cleanly.

I'm hoping they make a call for extras with parameters I might fit into. That would be awesome.

Matthew Colville · Apr 21, 2011

Watching that made me want to go back and watch the movies again. Something I haven't done since the extended editions came out on DVD.

I forget how much affection I had for those films when they were coming out. These days, when I think of Middle-earth, I think of the books.

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