Peter Jackson WILL make two "Hobbit" films

the hobbit is a terrific book! i much prefer it to LOTR. you can read it in an afternoon, for starters.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2248286,00.html

Okay, I'm interested again.

I'd be more than fine with that.

Smaug with eight thousands eyes all over him...

Del Toro would be a popular choice with commentators and Tolkien fans alike. He has an excellent pedigree in fantasy with Pan's Labyrinth and did decent work on the comic book adaptations Hellboy and Blade II.

weird editorializing...

I bet it will have a framing device revealing that Middle Earth is in fact the hallucination of a child caught up in the Spanish Civil War.

"I, Gandalf, cannot make the journey here, but my associate Hellboy has kindly indicated he's available."

hellboy was fken awesome. fuck a pans labyrinth tho.

(and fuck 'the hobbit' obviously.)

controversial!

it is still weird that they are considering filling in the story between the two.

first 30 mins of hellboy is pretty awes then it gets pretty lame. especially when the pretty boy other protag gets brought in.

Official

you talking about the new Hellboy, slocki?

Surely he means the first. The new one doesn't come out until, what, June or something?

hellboy is awesome if you don't expect much more from it than SMASHING NAZIS.
fuck blade II though! backhanded compliment, to just mention that one rite?

I don't remember another pretty boy protag in Hellboy, though. I R confused.

Hellboy is just about the best comic book adaptation to date. It's careful with fx, solidly entertaining, and it never gets all self-important or overstays it's welcome.

del toro cares about his characters as much as the spectacle and makes nature look sexy, so he's basically Peter Jackson hopefully minus the slow motion hobbit dancing in white pajamas. best thing that could have happened.

I, for one, am geeking out.

Plz to be holding yr horses: Tolkien estate sues

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7240421.stm

in hellboy 1 they bring in some other dude as a ostensible audience-identifiable dude character and he kind of sucks. after a great opening the movie really peters out.

in hellboy 1 they bring in some other dude as a ostensible audience-identifiable dude character and he kind of sucks.

He was like Josh Hartnett except even more lame.

I can't even begin to imagine.

Shaye and Lynne out at New Line, Jackson gets the last laugh.

And now officially official. Peter Jackson and Tom Ewing Guillermo del Toro celebrate:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-04/38196386.jpg

I do love how Guillermo is as much a geek as the rest -- he even posted on theonering.net forums about it.

this is a good choice, this will make them feel significantly different from the rings movies in feel and look. it's interesting that del toro is actually a much darker director and the hobbit is so much lighter in tone.

still can't accept non-fattey Peter Jackson

Don't worry. Del Toro will get him on some enchiladas right quick.

Come on, give the man his money, it's a contract from 1969.

http://www.guesswhichmovie.com/news/280

Also: how does this tie in with the production of another movie?

Transcript of a webchat with Jackson and Del Toro here: http://www.wetanz.com/holics/index.php?itemid=695&catid=2#more

I'm just pleased to be getting Gandalf the Grey back for two more movies. Ian and I loved him best. We were a little sad when the Gandy the White took over.

hahaha, Oh man. I think this is the polite way of saying they found 'Gandy the White' bor-ring.