The Hobbit

papiss dog · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:32

Can't wait for this film, loved the lord of the rings trilogy and if they are anything to go by this should be ace

I've herad that it may well be in two parts?

don't quote me on that though

I expect its out next year sometime?

Ashers · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:33

I heard Zarch had a role in this.

murf · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:34

Didn't they announced the release dates a week or two back? Two consecutive christmasses if I remember correctly. Not sure which ones, doubt it is this year.

papiss dog · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:34

I was gonna apply to be a hobbit but they wanted someone taller

papiss dog · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:38

murf wrote:

Didn't they announced the release dates a week or two back? Two consecutive christmasses if I remember correctly. Not sure which ones, doubt it is this year.

I hate when they do that as with the lord of the rings...suppose it gives you something to look forward to.

I did have a look at the hobbit-film forum for details and info but they had all named themselves after characters and were a bit too much into it so I was a bit scared

murf · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 10:56

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13599286

fancy dan · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 11:22

What's Elijah Wood as Frodo doing in it? Frodo doesn't come into the story before Lord of the Rings!

Pasty · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 11:27

fancy dan wrote:

What's Elijah Wood as Frodo doing in it? Frodo doesn't come into the story before Lord of the Rings!

Im sure they know the story :wink:

or lets hope so anyway :shock:

jpk · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13 2005 **Posts:** 2998

hmmm, how are they going to squeeze 2 films (eg. 6 hours, 8 hours for the extended version) out of a plot that goes like this, Little bloke goes on walk up a mountain, finds a ring, goes in a wood, nicks a cup off a dragon, starts a war, goes home, has sex with a pig.

At least that's how I remember it 30 years on

Sorry for the plot spoilers

Pasty · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 11:53

jpk wrote:

hmmm, how are they going to squeeze 2 films (eg. 6 hours, 8 hours for the extended version) out of a plot that goes like this, Little bloke goes on walk up a mountain, finds a ring, goes in a wood, nicks a cup off a dragon, starts a war, goes home, has sex with a pig.

At least that's how I remember it 30 years on

Sorry for the plot spoilers

The original idea was to go as far back as The Silmarillion. Which was written after Tolkein died by his son (from notes written earlier) and goes into where Elves and the like came from, perhaps they still will as I agree the Hobbit surely cant be 2 films long :lol:

papiss dog · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 13:08

jpk wrote:

hmmm, how are they going to squeeze 2 films (eg. 6 hours, 8 hours for the extended version) out of a plot that goes like this, Little bloke goes on walk up a mountain, finds a ring, goes in a wood, nicks a cup off a dragon, starts a war, goes home, has sex with a pig.

At least that's how I remember it 30 years on

Sorry for the plot spoilers

I can't recall him fking a pig?

jpk · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13 2005 **Posts:** 2998

really? - so the plot is simpler than I thought :shock:

- even more filler required

papiss dog · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 13:29

maybe they'll somehow add in all the stuff they omitted from LOTR like all the tom bombadil story

or maybe just the pig sex scene?

Moist von Lipwig · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 13:37

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, arrives in cinemas on December 14, 2012 followed by The Hobbit: There and Back Again on December 13, 2013. Shooting them now - although they're having a break as Martin Freeman is back in the UK to film the next series of Sherlock.

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Moist von Lipwig · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 13:41

fancy dan wrote:

What's Elijah Wood as Frodo doing in it? Frodo doesn't come into the story before Lord of the Rings!

forgot to answer the question.

As the return of the king ended with an elderly bilbo having written his Hobbits tale book and showing it to frodo it'll probably pick up there somehow and start telling it in flashback.

WilBert · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2011, 18:36

Pig eff! There was too much three way man sex in the two towers.

Toss me Aragon don't tell the elf.

jimmy ching · **Joined:** Thu Oct 13 2005 **Posts:** 2672

I'm getting a little worried now because my son has feet like a hobbit :shock:

sted · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2011, 07:37

Mad Dog wrote:

jpk wrote:

hmmm, how are they going to squeeze 2 films (eg. 6 hours, 8 hours for the extended version) out of a plot that goes like this, Little bloke goes on walk up a mountain, finds a ring, goes in a wood, nicks a cup off a dragon, starts a war, goes home, has sex with a pig.

At least that's how I remember it 30 years on

Sorry for the plot spoilers

I can't recall him fking a pig?

We all have at some stage mate. I think your brain just erases it from memory.

murf · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2011, 09:30

sted wrote:

Mad Dog wrote:

jpk wrote:

hmmm, how are they going to squeeze 2 films (eg. 6 hours, 8 hours for the extended version) out of a plot that goes like this, Little bloke goes on walk up a mountain, finds a ring, goes in a wood, nicks a cup off a dragon, starts a war, goes home, has sex with a pig.

At least that's how I remember it 30 years on

Sorry for the plot spoilers

I can't recall him fking a pig?

We all have at some stage mate. I think your brain just erases it from memory.

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Achiles74 · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2011, 21:06

Legolas and Aragon are also in it :shock:

I'm sure when I read the Hobbit years ago neither of these 2 characters were in it but I guess they both add a little sex appeal to the film.

Also they guy who played Guy of Gisborne in the new BBC "Rob Hood" series is playing a dwarf :shock:

seriously he is 6ft at minimum, unless they have a camera trick to make actors look smaller, I know they used a little boy when filming Frodo by Gandalf in the Lord of the Ring films

CanaryYellow · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2011, 21:09

I think they have it covered, dont worry. :lol:

Moist von Lipwig · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2011, 22:42

Achiles74 wrote:

Legolas and Aragon are also in it :shock:

I'm sure when I read the Hobbit years ago neither of these 2 characters were in it but I guess they both add a little sex appeal to the film.

Also they guy who played Guy of Gisborne in the new BBC "Rob Hood" series is playing a dwarf :shock:

seriously he is 6ft at minimum, unless they have a camera trick to make actors look smaller, I know they used a little boy when filming Frodo by Gandalf in the Lord of the Ring films

I wouldn't worry about it they've already had the practice. Jonathan Rhys-Davies who played the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 6' 1".

Pasty · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 16:32

Trailer preview here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16281896

Only 12 months till we get to see the film though :roll:

cincirollers · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 16:48

I believe Guillermo del Toro, who was originally picked to direct, was still the principal writer of the screen play. Can anyone confirm?

Read "The Strain" if you're into that type of thing. Top 3 (maybe top 2) best vampire books I've ever read.

Moist von Lipwig · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 17:02

cincirollers wrote:

I believe Guillermo del Toro, who was originally picked to direct, was still the principal writer of the screen play. Can anyone confirm?

Correct. G d T, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Phillipa Boyens

cincirollers · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 17:05

Moist von Lipwig wrote:

cincirollers wrote:

I believe Guillermo del Toro, who was originally picked to direct, was still the principal writer of the screen play. Can anyone confirm?

Correct. G d T, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Phillipa Boyens

You have to admit, the pairing of GdT & Jackson should make for an excellent film.

Moist von Lipwig · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 17:10

I hope so although I thought some of the dwarves looked a bit plastic faced in the trailer.

TheTon · **Joined:** Wed Aug 16 2006 **Posts:** 9910

Moist von Lipwig wrote:

I hope so although I thought some of the dwarves looked a bit plastic faced in the trailer.

Yeah i thought that! Just watched the trailer and was trying to work out if it was a joke or not!

DrBunker · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 17:49

Likewise, not too convinced by the trailer. The casting doesn't look great either.

I've been waiting for this movie for what seems like years and it's one of the few books I've read a multiple of times.

I can see them milking it for 2 parts but to be fair so much happens I can see the need.

Fingers crossed the stellar names directing/producing it will pull it off.

Razorback · **Posted:** 21 Dec 2011, 21:59

Christ

That's even less inspiring than the 'Dark Knight Rises' trailer :shock:

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I'm not sure that they've even completed filming both movies so worth considering that they didn't have that much in the way of completed footage to work with at this stage.

Have to say that I'm not that excited about the prequels (the first of which, I think, adapts the book & the second consists of 'new' material), for the same reasons that I couldn't get that excited about the Star Wars prequels i.e we know exactly where they are heading.

However, no reason to think (yet) that both flicks won't be worth catching when they're eventually released...

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