BrokenArts on 16/10/2010 at 06:24
I know there is a thread around here some where. Dang if I can find it, I suck at the search sometimes. Anyhoo, its back! With a green light, which means it can go. The Hobbit is going to go back into production again! YAY! This coming Feb.
Peter Jackson is back. Money is flowing, actors can act, and we shall all go to the theaters to watch. Read it here.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/wrap-hobbit-greenlight.html)
reizak on 16/10/2010 at 09:34
Good news. Although seems like the union thing is still going to be a problem, but at least it doesn't sound like they'll have to be moving to eastern Europe.
bob_doe_nz on 16/10/2010 at 10:16
It's not a requirement for workers to join a union. You have to voluntarily join it.
That's the gist of it. Guilds want it to be automatic join.
Dia on 16/10/2010 at 12:32
Can't wait to see Jackson's Smaug. Also wonder who'll portray Beorn the Berserker (one of my favorites).
Chimpy Chompy on 16/10/2010 at 13:13
A while back Bill Bailey mentioned he'd auditioned for the role of one Dwarves (gloin, I think). Would be awesome if he got it!
henke on 16/10/2010 at 16:10
Quote Posted by BrokenArts
I know there is a thread around here some where. Dang if I can find it, I suck at the search sometimes.
You
did search for "In a hole in the ground....... THERE LIVED A HOBBIT MUTHAPHUXORZ", right?
Zygoptera on 16/10/2010 at 23:24
Quote Posted by bob_doe_nz
It's not a requirement for workers to join a union. You have to voluntarily join it.
That's the gist of it. Guilds want it to be automatic join.
I did like the cheek of the Australian government sounding the producers out on getting the production shifted to Australia given it's an Australian union singing L'Internationale in front of Weta's offices. That took some balls.
Queue on 16/10/2010 at 23:29
Another big studio production from Peter Jackson. Yay.
nbohr1more on 18/10/2010 at 13:21
I was really looking forward to Guillermo del Toro's touch on this. I really loved Pan's Labyrinth and hoped that he would bring that magic to the narrative. :(
I liked the LOTR films a great deal but I always had the impression that the acting and character quality was laboring against Jackson's pop-culture mythos fluff from his years as the director of Xena. Bernard Hill was to Jackson's LOTR what Harrison Ford was to Star Wars: character actors that know how to take poorly defined (or even scripted in the case of Star Wars) characters and imbue them with enough gravitas and subtle detail to make them plausible. I think that Ian McKellen has some of that quality as well but I am afraid of the remaining thin-soup ensemble in the face of his methods. Maybe some other new cast member will step-up in a similar fashion as Bernard.
Since The Hobbit is supposed to have a little humor, I was thinking that maybe even Mike Newell (too much focus on awkward social situations?), Wes Anderson (might get too talkative...), Spike Jones (maybe too much meditation), Terry Gilliam (pipe-dream and too large of a budget...), Coen Brother (too manic, ...too funny? ...would make the thing a flaming farce?). This is kinda fueled by some of the groaner type "humor" that was attempted in LOTR. If there is even more focus on humor in this film I fear it will be piled on.
I cant really say that the Xena episodes were anything less than fun to watch. Combined with that romping adventure spirit, The Hobbit film is still virtually guaranteed to be a good time. I just think it could be so much more.
Queue on 18/10/2010 at 14:10
Quote Posted by nbohr1more
I was really looking forward to Guillermo del Toro's touch on this.
Me too, actually.
Quote:
...Terry Gilliam (pipe-dream and too large of a budget...)
Of course, I think Gilliam should direct damn near everything. But do you mean too large of a budget for Gilliam's taste, or the studio's?
