YES! Jackson to make Hobbit film

[Banshee16]

You mean like that fake and plastic finish they gave Patrick Stewart and Mckellen when they played the younger Xavier and Magneto in X-Men III respectively? Please. That makeup was laughable and quite distracting, and I'd hate to see Holm acting under that stuff.

I'm not hating on Ian Holm, far from it. But the Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit was a young and active character, and it calls for a young actor to play that role. I'm pretty sure Jackson knows this. Hell, he had the sense to replace a younger actor for an older one when casting the role of Aragorn. Why should the reverse be any different?

Because he's already established a face for the character, given his presence in the other three movies...

Banshee

 

[Psionicist]

Looks like Del Toro will direct this movie. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080128/film_nm/hobbit_dc

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM.
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Del Toro's name was on a short list of directors who could tackle the project, one of the most anticipated literary adaptations of the past decade. An ill-chosen director for "Hobbit" could put billions of dollars at stake for New Line and MGM and could turn off an audience that encompasses millions of passionate readers, Tolkien fans and obsessive geeks.

 

[Mark Hope]

Looks like Del Toro will direct this movie. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080128/film_nm/hobbit_dc

Read this news today as well. Awesome. Totally awesome. I love his directing. Devil's Backbone is one of the creepiest films I have seen in ages and Pan's Labyrinth was, of course, magnificent. I had hoped that the Weitz brothers might have been able to snag him for Elric, but I guess that The Hobbit will be a bigger draw.

 

[Klaus]

That is Good News.

 

[horacethegrey]

Oh yeah! I'm all for it!