The Hobbit films, previously to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and now to be directed by Peter Jackson again.

For Hellboy to be mediocre crap, there'd have to be comparable excellent crap, and the upper-limit of property-franchise movies doesn't raise the bar that much past Hellboy. LOTR series had lifeless action and clunky dialogue, too.

Director's Cut of first "Hellboy" is pretty great. Second "Hellboy" totally pointless, but no one but Del Toro would toss in that incredible scene of the giant plant demon/monster/god in its death throws.

best part of 2 is the angel of death

wd take either hellboy over LOTR in a heartbeat

half a heartbeat

Hmmmm not sure about this HB over LOTR!
you do know hell boy's made up & and LOTR's was real don't you?

Only reason i was excited about Hobbit was Del Toro would be involved, maybe it's best left unmade!

& and? just choose one ;-/

they should get jodorowsky to direct and turn it into a 10hr epic w music by pink floyd

― don cab for cutie (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, June 1, 2010 12:52 PM (3 hours ago)

Yes!

kenneth branagh to direct, randall wallace to script, visual design sean bean

wld take both Hellboys on TV over any one LOTR in the cinema

(NB do not watch either Hellboy on TV, they suck there)

Peter Jackson is on!

Huh.

gilliam pls

in what amounts to a dream come true for fans of Middle Earth

All fans of Middle Earth?

Pick a fan, any fan.

he'd write a better script, that random fan

It is darraghmac's chance to shine.

entire script in prose, all elvish songs to end 'john terry is a cunt' or soforth

Figures.

Should be said that http://www.theonering.net/ makes it sound like this is all still up in the air.

I still can't read that without seeing it as The Onering, like something that oners.

Hahaha

M. Night Shmalayan's The Onering

ew

And imagine the twist ending.

"Gollum was a hobbit all along!"

"Well, yeah."

*silence*

I see onionring :-( (xxposts)

Apparently, it'll cost 350 million Euros to film, will be in 3D and in two parts. First part in cinemas in December 2012, second part in December 2013. (was in a Belgian newspaper today, am too lazy to find english source :-) )

here you go
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni4941178/

thankig u

Simon Pegg's interview in the Observer today had him casually dropping the fact that Martin Freeman has been cast as Bilbo. Anyone heard anything about this?

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29175

Already a google image search of this dude is bringing up hobbity photoshops.

good bilbo, i'll give them that much.

Perhaps some studio bigwig made him do it, but Pegg retracted that via Twitter.

how will he top the lovely bones? i'd rather it be stop motion animation like 'mary and max' or 'chicken run'

chicken run style hobbit would be the best thing ever. especially if the hobbits were chicken hobbits.

shouldn't think he'll be changing all that much from the billion dollar franchise that paid for his lipo tbh

And here come the casting announcements:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/peter-jackson-sets-first-names-for-the-hobbit/

Richard Armitage is a hell of an actor. amazing in the bbc version of north and south.

There's a whole bunch of crap going on down here in NZ at the mo about this project - may be moved from NZ - it's all getting a bit bizarre. This pretty much covers the situation if anyone's interested http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm

Yeah seems like the final hurdle is whether or not it actually is filmed in NZ.

you know what? i will probably not see these cuz of the 3d. it's more expensive and gives me a headache.

i am just so damn tired of hobbitses

3D movies are always released in 2D versions as well, you know!

I'm fine with the choice for Bilbo, wasn't Jack Black rumoured for it once? That would've been terrible!

I'm mainly happy for Tim. Should keep Dawn in art equipment for a while.

Ha yeah, how many crayons?

watching harry potter and half blood prince right now

jim broadbent would have made a perfect older bilbo, though i've no complaints against ian holm

i thought fam was 1p3 mods only

oops

let it stand