In news that shouldn’t really come as a shock to anyone who has been paying attention, Peter Jackson tells German website Movie Reporter that The Hobbit won’t be filming in March after all, and that he expects it to start shooting next summer.
Says Jackson: ‘We’re currently working on the second script which we hope to have completed by the end of this year or beginning of next. When the scripts are completed, we can begin with the exact calculation of the necessary budget. We hope to start filming in the middle of next year. However, we’ve received no green light from the studio yet.’
That first script, by the way? I’m hearing it’s great. One of the things holding it all up is the slow demise of MGM, who is involved in the rights. The longer their death throes take, the longer it’ll take to get everything sorted out for The Hobbit to start filming. And Summer 2010 for shooting is fine, as Jackson wants to open The Hobbit in the Lord of the Rings spot in 2011 and 2012. It’s if the filming gets delayed past next summer that things start getting hairy (well, hairier than they already are when you have famed beardos Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro working together on a project).
via Coming Soon
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a pox on that! they wasted all this time fighting about money and rights and other trinkets, and silly giant gorillas, and now they carry on like there's no big rush?! McKellen is not getting any younger you know!
I second IWF's statements. The mortality of McKellen, Holme,* and Lee** are what concern me the most in this delay.
*Although Bilbo will be cast younger, GDT & PJ were toying with the idea of a frame story including Ian Holme (according to TheOneRing.net)
**Although not explicitly in "The Hobbit," Saruman features contemporaneously in the White Council, to be depicted in the films. Lee won't fly to New Zealand, however, so any scenes with him will be filmed in London. (according to TheOneRing.net)
"That first script, by the way? I'm hearing it's great." Cool. That's all we need to hear right now. If they can just nail that second script…
Mckellen? He is 70 and would be a crippling loss to the production. But Christopher Lee is 87!. Again, that's EIGHTY SEVEN. My Grandpa died at that age, and was in no shape to be making a blockbuster movie!
Of course Saruman only has a minor role in the Hobbit, but the completist in me needs to see 4 things: Mckellen as the Grey, Lee as the White, Serkis as the Precious and Sting as the Blade. Would be very nice to see Mortensen and Tyler show up as Aragorn and Arwen even briefly, and might as well write Bloom as Legolas into Mirkwood while we are at it. A shame Rhys-Davies won't be back as Gloin, father of Gimli, but i'm sure we will get our dwarf fix anyway.
I wonder if the troll scene will be visually beholden to its counterpart in Fellowship? And will the spiders be similar to Shelob? Will there be singing and lightheartedness and talking wargs/foxes? And what about a Bombadil reference somehow?
Shit. I did this same thing with LOTR, and my gf will prolly be just as burned out by it with this one!
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