The Production Weekly twitter feed has become a veritable fountain of project confirmations, and following Monday’s Thing prequel tweet, we now have a schedule for The Hobbit…
“Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is due to begin a 14 month production schedule this June in New Zealand.”
This is in line with what Jackson was last caught saying, and indicates no delay as of yet. The year-and-change schedule is accommodating a shoot for both films with the first currently set to be released, per-LOTR tradition, in December 2011, with the second coming a year later.
There’s no way to be sure how the filming will break down and allow for post-production work on the first film to begin (that is certainly going to require more than two months), so if we have to wait an extra year, or if The Hobbit is suddenly going to become a summer film, we’ll find out soon enough.
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And the bigger question is… Michael Cera as Bilbo???
Really, why is this casting like pulling teeth? That Macavoy guy seems perfect. Done.
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Strange. The LOTR TRILOGY (as in 3 films) took 15 months to make. Now this two part film will take just one month less? Does that make any damn sense? I mean, I'm not even a LOTR fan but that's just dumb. Why not take just ten months for your two part film? Isn't that more logical?
The original cartoon was 77 minutes. It's going to have horribly boring or flat-out bad stretches to cover two movies. Even if you add a full hour to fill out what was in the original and expand on the climactic battle, you're still under 3 hours. Unless I hear some amazing feedback from friends, the amount of treacle this will have to be filled with to bloat it into two movies will keep me from going to the theater.
watchmen should of been 2 movies, not the hobbit..
Let's be honest here. Everyone and their dog are going to see this in theater. Anyone pretending to be not interested now will surely be changing there tune in a year or two. Though, personally I'm still hoping someone tackles LOTR again (ala Shakespeare). My pick is Spike Jonze ala Wonderboy. That video was epic.
As I understand, Tolkein had written a lot of material that was never published. This is how they are going to make 2 movies. The book doesn't cover what Gandalf was up to while the party was on their journey, other than to mention the "Necromancer". This among much more is part of that material he left behind.
Not that your post has anything to do with this topic, or that your grammar is particularly good to begin with, but it's "should HAVE". Not, "should OF".
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