# Peter Jackson to produce Hobbit movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473 "2007-12-18T18:17:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/61 "2007-12-19T16:51:04Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Maybe they’ll flesh out Radagast the Brown in this one. He got mentioned in The Hobbit, and made a brief appearance in FOTR, being a buddy to eagles and all. The White Council’s attack on Dol Gulder ought to be good material for such a project, too. That’ll mean face time for not only Gandalf, but Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond, and Cirdan too! And maybe Glorfindel. [/QUOTE] With Kung-Fu! Vegas, car chases, rocket launchers, kung-fu, Angelina Jolie, damn. Ya gotta’ hand it to Tolkien. I love the classics. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/62 "2007-12-19T17:46:21Z")
The parts of the three trolls call for actors capable of doing great rustic dialect comic voices. I’m thinking of accents like I’ve heard from people of southwest England, perhaps. Of course the trolls will be CGI. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/63 "2007-12-19T17:50:07Z")
I’d be fine if the trolls just talked like pirates (which arguably is a rustic English accent). Arrr! There is a somewhat troubling continuity problem with the trolls of the Hobbit book (talking, carrying talking pocket purses, etc) vs the trolls of the LOTR movies. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/64 "2007-12-19T17:51:59Z")
I for one was sure one of the pirates in the PotC movies was the same guy who played Butterbur in LotR but it was just the same rustic English accent. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/65 "2007-12-19T18:03:03Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] I’d be fine if the trolls just talked like pirates (which arguably is a rustic English accent). Arrr! There is a somewhat troubling continuity problem with the trolls of the Hobbit book (talking, carrying talking pocket purses, etc) vs the trolls of the LOTR movies. [/QUOTE] I also hope the Sun-struck trolls will end up in exactly the same positions as those we saw briefly in LOTR, in the background as Frodo was ailing from the jab of the Nazgul blade. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/66 "2007-12-19T18:03:07Z")
I think the trolls should be named Maurice, Lawrence and Jerome. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/67 "2007-12-19T18:37:27Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] I think the trolls should be named Maurice, Lawrence and Jerome. [/QUOTE] Ok, I am whooshed, I don’t get the reference and of course I need to point out the trolls already have names. Tom, Bert and Bill Huggins. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/68 "2007-12-19T18:46:05Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Ok, I am whooshed, I don’t get the reference [/QUOTE] Moe, Larry, Curly. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/69 "2007-12-19T18:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] I think the trolls should be named Maurice, Lawrence and Jerome. [/QUOTE] nitpick: Moses, Louis, and Jerome. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/70 "2007-12-19T19:08:27Z")
Hmm, according to various Googled sources, the Hobbit trolls spoke with Cockney accents. I’m not seeing any word from JRR on the issue. I’m also not sure how you might say “ya numbskull! woob-woob-woob!” in Cockney. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/71 "2007-12-19T19:36:07Z")
NYT has something up [here](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/movies/19jack.html?8dpc). > [@The New York Times](#): > > The untitled sequel is described as bridging the 60-year gap between the end of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Hobbit” and the beginning of the “Rings” trilogy. Sounds like _Merry and Pippin’s Excellent Tavern-Hopping Adventure_ to me. Plus Aragorn getting his Arwen crush on. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/72 "2007-12-19T19:41:43Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] nitpick: Moses, Louis, and Jerome. [/QUOTE] whadda’ you, a wiseguy? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/73 "2007-12-19T19:42:23Z")
…and the Shire being taken over by Dunlenders led by a suspciously familiar old man. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/74 "2007-12-19T23:20:47Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] The LotR movie were so incredibly successful while being **reasonably faithful to the books** , [/QUOTE] /rolls on the floor laughing hysterically/ [minority opinion] I hate the idea of Peter Jackson doing this. Hate it. I hates me some PJ. [/minority opinion] ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/75 "2007-12-19T23:31:04Z")
I doubt that Jackson is really going to have anything to do with the movie. “Executive producer” is a title that usually means that they’ve just paid to slap their name on the film. A good example of this is that Stan Lee is the “executive producer” for most of the Marvel based films but he had no input or control. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473/76 "2007-12-20T00:16:35Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] I doubt that Jackson is really going to have anything to do with the movie. “Executive producer” is a title that usually means that they’ve just paid to slap their name on the film. A good example of this is that Stan Lee is the “executive producer” for most of the Marvel based films but he had no input or control. [/QUOTE] From the link I posted earlier: > [@The New York Times](#): > > But Mr. Jackson and his wife, Ms. Walsh, will be executive producers of the Hobbit films, and they will share with New Line the right to approve all creative elements: director, screenwriter, script, cast, filming location, even the visual-effects company used (as if there were any doubt that his Weta Digital would be chosen). “They can assure that the films will be made with the same level of quality as if they were writing and directing,” Mr. Jackson’s manager, Ken Kamins, said. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-to-produce-hobbit-movie/430473.md?page=3)