Sorry, but this statement produces genuine cognitive dissonance in me. I read the words, I know they’re in English, but I can’t make them make sense.
Two movies for The Hobbit??? That’s nuts.
Uh oh.
It somehow hadn’t even occurred to me that they’d want to do that to The Hobbit.
Oh, I don’t know. Seeing Bilbo’s big hairy toes poking out of the screen could be quite entertaining.
Whatever they do, let us hope that they don’t hire fucking Joss Whedon.
Uh, no.
That was something they discussed originally, but they later announced that The Hobbit itself will be both films.
Not unless you want to turn Bilbo into a slightly off-kilter female hobbit who was a natural talent at fighting but never got the chance to use it until Gandalf and the dwarves show up.
Or fucking Tom Cruise.
Uwe Boll?
Are you kidding? Tom Cruise would be perfect as a hobbit.
Let’s just get Whedon to do the script and Lynch to direct.
I think the grumbling of the Hobbit fundies who want every scene from the book put in the movie can be safely ignored as I’m guessing most movie goers will not have read the book.
The two picture move is IMO simply financial. The LOTR films were such moneymakers they would stretch the Hobbit to 3 pics if they could get away with it.
In a two film deal where do the Hobbit aficionados think the natural stopping place is for the first film per the chapters below?
[1] An Unexpected Party
[2] Roast Mutton
[3] A Short Rest
[4] Over Hill And Under Hill
[5] Riddles in the Dark
[6] Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
[7] Queer Lodgings
[8] Flies and Spiders
[9] Barrels Out of Bond
[10] A Warm Welcome
[11] On the Doorstep
[12] Inside Information
[13] Not At Home
[14] Fire and Water
[15] The Gathering of the Clouds
[16] A Thief in the Night
[17] The Clouds Burst
[18] The Return Journey
[19] The Last Stage
There is an awful lot of action in The Hobbit, so I don’t have a problem with making two films out of it. Face it: most movies are more like short stories (“can be read in one sitting”) than novels. That’s why single movies made from novels are generally so unsatisfying to fans of the book.
Re: a break point, I would end the first movie with the Dwarves all captive in the Elf King’s dungeon for a nice cliff-hanger. Either that, or right after the escape (I don’t need spoiler tags here, do I?) with the barrels floating down the river. Either way, the action from there on really constitutes the final, longest “episode” of the story…TRM
Tom Cruise would make a great Bilbo.
Bah! Beaten to it.
My apologies. I wish they made no sense to me too.
Apatow, Tarantino or Kevin Smith should make it. :o
PJ will direct if he has to (thogh other commitments complicate things)
Brian
I thought you were talking about Benicio Del Toro.
I could not help trying to image that …
However, it’s impossible. There are no women in The Hobbit, are there? Lynch would be wasted on a movie with no women; it would be just all weirdness and gore …
I can work horror in nearly every CS-aficionado Doper with four words:
Paul Verhoeven’s The Hobbit
Guillermo gotta eat!