And The Sheriff is a N<<clang, clang>>r!!!
The Sheriff is near?
[sub]Sorry, I couldn’t resist anymore. It popped into my head everytime I saw the thread title[/sub]
Blazing Saddles, ya?
Oh, it’s twue, it’s twue!
Hey, I’ll bet they’ll have a flashback to the War of the Dwarves and Orcs.
Oh, this is rich. I start a thread about Tolkien-related goodness, and have the good fortune to be graced by the presence of a legend, and he changes the subject.
Why, why must you smite me, Og? wails and gnashes teeth
Why is that?
It might have had something to do with his suing them.
According to this article Guillermo Del Toro may do a workman like job. but he has no true love for the material.
According to this article Guillermo Del Toro may do a workman like job, but he has no true love for the material.
The JRRT estate is suing New Line too. As is Saul Zaentz. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980703.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Seems New Line has been accused by many folks of not paying what they what they promised to.
:dubious: Hmmm, something’s not right.
That article contradicts everything I’ve heard GDT saying lately in regards to helming the films. True, he didn’tread LOTR until recently, citing that he found it hard to get into, and that he much preferred the simplistic storytelling and geeral innocence of the Hobbit. But I’ve been keeping up with the TORn site over the past week or so, and he’s posted on their boards saying how much he loves the story and how excited he is to be involved.
Anybody got any more info on this?
Which is the main reason I (perhaps alone in the universe) had hoped that The Hobbit would be filmed some day, with no connection to anyone that had worked on the Jackson films. I loved the movies, especially Fellowship, but they’re not the only or necessarily the best way that Middle-earth could have been envisioned. Fans of the films seem to forget that Jackson didn’t invent that world, he interpreted it. Somebody else could make Rivendell et al. look brand-new and exciting with a new interpretation of the source material. I don’t see any particularly need for continuity between a Hobbit movie and the LOTR trilogy. Let it be an adaptation of the original novel, which was written as a stand-alone story. And certainly don’t try to shoehorn in Legolas, Aragorn, Arwen, Galadriel, or Sauron (who at this point wasn’t really the Necromancer, who was an off-stage character anyway).
(In an entirely different yet kind of the same vein, one of the things I disliked about the film version of Interview With a Vampire was that, even though it was the first Vampire Chronicles movie made, it was obviously done with an eye on the sequels in terms of its depictions of Lestat and Louis, instead of being true to the source novel.)
Re: Lawsuits. They seem to be part of doing business in Hollywood, and they don’t stop the principals from working together when there are buckets of money to be made.
Couldn’t give a shit about The Hobbit, but according to imdb.com, del Toro is also planning to direct: a movie of Dr. Strange, and an attempt to film At the Mountains of Madness. Yowsah!
MTV interviews GDT
…in which he discusses his previous comments about fantasy, among other things.
I’m long overdue for a reread of the series, but I’m going to start in a week or so.
Ian McKellen says that del Toro has asked him to play Gandalf in The Hobbit.
(Has everyone seen the *Extras *episode where McKellen explains his acting technique in LOTR? That’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on TV.)
No, I haven’t. Link! Link!
For your enjoyment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43sbtkQM6zc
Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian - action - “You Shall Not Pass!” - cut - Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.
Penny Arcade comments on the second hobbit movie.
Envision if you will makes director camera square with fingers The Young Eowyn Adventures.
Eowyn, and her rag tag bunch of Rohan tweens, find misadventure in the kingdom, humor and hijinks beset them as their rival, young Grima Wormtongue, plots their embarassment and comeuppance.
Hannah Montana meets Harry Potter meets Young Indiana Jones…it’s gold baby!
Q & A with Jackson and Del Toro. It’s pretty interesting, but long.