The Hobbit

[Ranger REG]

I'd watch this in a second ... and I think many others would too. So why not? I personally would LOVE to see those beloved thirteen dwarves grace the screen.

Well, I don't know anyone here who WOULDN'T want to watch such a film, unless they're Tolkien Purists that made a vow never to watch any film version of their sacred canon.*

*Better to use that word instead of "bible."

We just want to know if the project have already been started.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Well, I don't know anyone here who WOULDN'T want to watch such a film, unless they're Tolkien Purists that made a vow never to watch any film version of their sacred canon.*

*Better to use that word instead of "bible."

We just want to know if the project have already been started.

I am curriious though if it really will be accurate though since there are absolutely no female characters in the original.

 

[Fenris]

I am curriious though if it really will be accurate though since there are absolutely no female characters in the original.

Weren't the giant spiders of Mirkwood the daughters of Shelob?

 

[Morrus]

I'd love to see this made. I'm not sure that a whole troupe of dwarves and one hobbit are quite accessible (or "sexy") enough for mainstream audiences, though.

 

[librarius_arcana]

Update

I don't know how true this is (I doubt it) but something to chew over anyway

http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060911_mgm_making_the_hobbit.html

 

[Cor Azer]

Hmm... the one thing that made me raise an eyebrow in the OP's link... "clearly marked... in what looked like July 2007"

Cleared marked, but couldn't make out the date? Sure, that's possible, but seems, kinda... I dunno... vaguish?

I'd love to see it happen, but I don't want it rushed.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

They could try to do a de-aging thing on Ian Holm, like they did with Prof X and Magneto at the beginning of X-3. I think they'll probably have to hire a new actor, though. Ian Holm is getting up there.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

They could try to do a de-aging thing on Ian Holm, like they did with Prof X and Magneto at the beginning of X-3. I think they'll probably have to hire a new actor, though. Ian Holm is getting up there.

Well Bilbo was 50 when he went on his adventure. Makeup can probably manage that.

 

[Darth Shoju]

At least it will be easier to do the special-effects shots to make the dwarves look short. For much of the movie the only character making them look out of perspective will be Gandalf. They'll just have to make sure the actor who plays Bilbo is shorter than the actors playing the dwarves. And now 13 other actors will know the agony that John Rhys Davies had to endure playing Gimli.

I'm hoping Peter Jackson will direct this movie but I'm confident there is another director out there that could pull it off too. Also hoping WETA does the special effects.

 

[Taelorn76]

I'm hoping Peter Jackson will direct this movie but I'm confident there is another director out there that could pull it off too. Also hoping WETA does the special effects.

They would be stupid to mess with a winning formula, of Jackson anf WETA, but then again this Hollywood.