Peter Jackson to produce Hobbit movie

[BMalion]

@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.

With Kung-Fu!

Vegas, car chases, rocket launchers, kung-fu, Angelina Jolie, damn. Ya gotta’ hand it to Tolkien. I love the classics.

[teela_brown]

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.

[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.

[Ludovic]

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.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@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.

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.

[BMalion]

I think the trolls should be named Maurice, Lawrence and Jerome.

[What_Exit]

@BMalion

I think the trolls should be named Maurice, Lawrence and Jerome.

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.

[OneCentStamp]

@What Exit?

Ok, I am whooshed, I don’t get the reference

Moe, Larry, Curly.

[muldoonthief]

@BMalion

I think the trolls should be named Maurice, Lawrence and Jerome.

nitpick: Moses, Louis, and Jerome.

[squeegee]

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.

[squeegee]

NYT has something up here.

@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.

[BMalion]

@muldoonthief

nitpick: Moses, Louis, and Jerome.

whadda’ you, a wiseguy?

[Ludovic]

…and the Shire being taken over by Dunlenders led by a suspciously familiar old man.

[Archergal]

@Omniscient

The LotR movie were so incredibly successful while being reasonably faithful to the books,

/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]

[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.

[squeegee]

@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.

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.