Spider-man director Sam Raimi is still first in line to direct The Hobbit, but if he can’t make it happen, Pan’s Labyrinth helmer Guillermo Del Toro is reportedly next in line.
“I’ve heard some rumblings, but nothing official. I don’t want to think about it because it’s such an eventuality,” Guillermo del Toro told EW. “It’s the only Tolkien book I read. I tried my best to read the Lord of the Rings, the trilogy. I could not. I could not. They were very dense. And then one day, I bought The Hobbit. I read it and I loved it.” [/film]
Thank you God, the only hope I have for this is a director who finds Lord of the Rings as boring as I do. Give the Mexican a chance, he’d probably do it for half the money. (Not because he’s Mexican, he’s just known to work cheaply. What? Stop looking at me like that.)
But as of right now no one is officially signed on to the films, which will be shot back to back. The first film will be an adaptation of The Hobbit, while the second film will serve as a prequel which bridges the gap between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, using Tolkien’s lengthy appendices as source material.
Jesus, a whole film based on the appendices. Kill me now. And if you’ll excuse me, I have to go write a graphic novel based on a phlegm-filled cocktail napkin I dug out of Stephen King’s trash.
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Good News everyone! I’ll only bootleg this if it turns out to be bad.
And, from the last thread, buy your own nuclear reactor. Seriously. From Toshiba.
http://dvice.com/archives/2007/12/power_your_home.php
I don’t get why Jackson would let any one else direct these. He’s fought hard to keep himself for seemingly no reason…..oh….wait….what…..he’ll make huge coin from this with having to get off his ass and do any thing…..I get it.
but again the new post is so late I’m leaving work now.
Well it’s your loss. I was going to be super funny today……super is a gay word isn’t it?
Stay affleck. Collect some overtime. Where’s your xmas spirit?
You couldn’t pay me enough to direct a movie that Peter "an actual hobbit" Jackson was producing. You know that little furry asshole will be looking over anyone’s shoulder the whole time, whispering, "You should shoot this low angle, wide framed, with Gandalf resting his hands on Bilbo’s shoulders. Also, get a tight shot of his balls slapping the back of his thighs too. That’d be sweet.".
Sorry guys, as I mentioned yesterday, I’m on Pacific Time until January.
affleck is gonna go drink some of it right now…
I couldn’t get through the books. And, you may have heard, I do have a fondness for books. It was the three page description of the damn hobbit hole. I get it. It’s a hole, in a hill with a round door. I just pictured an igloo made of dirt. Then I took the Inuit and made them shorter and whiter and with hockey hair. See. So much time saved.
I’m excited for this. I enjoyed the LOTR movies (as I’ve said before they did well with what is basically an impossible book to adapt).
I’m hoping this one is less gay though and can maybe redress this by having some female leads… What’s that you say? NO women at all? Oh well, let the (mini) sausage-fest commence.
Since Lance is on Pacific time until January, does that mean he’ll make his last post of the day 4 hours later than usual, much like he has been with his first post? Or am I just being a dick?
I sat at the loser table in highschool (*gasp* shocking, I know) so I was forced to go to a museum of LOTR material. They made the rooms look like different sets by coating the walls with styrofoam and airgun painting it. We went on the last day, so despite the signs, people had torn chunks out of the walls. It was like the room had dandruff. I laughed, a lot.
affleck: the problem Jackson has with directing it is that the rights are co-owned by New Line. He sued New Line for millions over LOTR money he felt they were screwing him out of. Hence the problems in getting this made with him as Director… Still he showed them with his Big Monkey Movie, didn’t he?! Whoops.
JHC: nice.
Peter Jackson directed MonkeyBone? Yep. You heard it here first folks.
bne_pro: Would you be a dear and maybe photoshop your shirt to some other color? Or find another way to stop confusing me?
So I’ve stayed for a little longer…..I thought he’d solved all his issues with new line. Maybe that was the deal, he didn’t direct. Any way I’m sure Jackson won’t mind too much even if these movies suck they’re going to make so much money.
Jackson should just go make a little fucked up gore fest
Nom: already on top of it. changing things up as we
speaktype.True, his best movie is still The Frighteners, followed by Bad Taste. Stick that up Kong’s arse PJ!!!
Affleck: good idea for Jackson to go ‘back to his roots’. Dead Alive (Braindead) will forever hold a dear (gory) place in my heart. i’ll never eat pudding again, that’s for DAMN sure.
Bryce I’d added a "or some thing with micheal J fox" onto my last place but got rid of it.
I thought it might be insensitive cause you know…he’s dead now…..well may as well be.
Also is Del toro the mexican Peter jackson….
Being that I’m in a time zone that’s 3 hours later, yes, it probably means the first post will go up 3 hours later than usual, genius.
I’m also writing from a Starbuck’s where a fat couple has been flirting loudly for the last hour. Just fuck already, Jesus. This is why I hate fat people.
Michael J Fox will always live on in Bobblehead form. Well, as soon as I get off my ass and buy an injection molder. And I still can’t believe Peter Jackson directed Dead Alive.
Way to dodge the question by calling me a genius. Well played Lance.
Are they flirting with eachother, or the food. Because now I have an mental image of two fat people slobering over their pastries and ignoring each other.
"Shut up bitch! She puts out more than you do!"
"That’s because I can’t find your penis! You pencil dick!"
Just walk past them and say, "you’re both fat, you won’t find any thing better, stop testing the waters and just fuck. Dicks." then throw hot ocffee on them and leave.
oh and do they do egg nog Latte in US starbucks. they do in the UK around christmas and although I hate starbucks that drink is awesome.
I’m writing a screenplay based on the forward and glossary from my art history textbook. I think it will take 4 feature-length movies to cover the material adequately, and it will be a combination of The DaVinci Code, National Treasure, Tomb Raider, and Dude Where’s My Car.
How long do you think it woudl take you to choke out Sean Astin? I could make that little chubby fucker blue in three minutes for sure.
This is why I hate fat people.
I knew it! Listen, bean pole, when my army of morbidly obese roll into town with Taco Bell stored safely in the folds to keep it warm, it will be a hot time in the old town tonight! We will be lighting so many farts you will be able to see the glow from outer space.
How long do you think it woudl take you to choke out Sean Astin? I could make that little chubby fucker blue in three minutes for sure.
Three Minutes? I will personally guarantee in this public forum that I could choke him out in sixty seconds or less. Realistically I think more like 20, but I want to leave a bit of a cushion if I’m guaranteeing stuff.