The Hobbit movie is at least three years away

[The Mullinator]

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national_story_skin/479050?format=html

A little far away but I can last.

 

[Asknoone]

3 years

Oh well, at least its coming.

 

[The Monkey]

What about Silmarillion?

 

[craig]

What about Silmarillion?

I doubt very much that book will see the light of day as far as _a_ movie goes.

 

[The Monkey]

I doubt very much that book will see the light of day as far as _a_ movie goes.

Yeah, it would be very long and confusing to watch. It still would have some great battle scenes, though.

 

[PoeticRocker]

Man smaug gonna look wicked!!

 

[Calanen]

The Silmarillion was garbage compared to the other stories by Tolkein.

 

[mabufo]

This was my favorite book as a kid, read it 3 times.

I loved it, and I can't wait for the movie!

 

[Asknoone]

The Silmarillion was garbage compared to the other stories by Tolkein.

I thought it was fantastic, although, quite convolted and hard to understand. Its more of as history book than anything.

Very difficult to make it into a movie, take some doing to pull it off...I can just imagine Ungoliant

And any scene with Morgoth

 

[Harryz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4344767.stm

Nope. Four years away.

 

[Jangle]

aww it'll probably suck anyway.

 

[jheaddon]

Damn i'll be pushing 25 by the times it's out.. Says will wait atleast 4 years before starting, let alone making it and releasing

Can't wait though, love reading it

 

[Asknoone]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4344767.stm

Nope. Four years away.

Bleh :frown:

 

[Reginald]

I managed to struggle through Silmarillion at 12 and found it very hard going. But I got to the end.

The way I see it, would be (dare I say it) a series of straight to video films that would be in a box set. To me that would be the only conceivable way.

As for the Hobbit, I only hope they get Andy Serkis, Ian McKellan and Hudo Weaving back. I imagine, that the main characters from LotR will get cameos as men or elves. And maybe even John Rhys Davies as one of the dwarves.

Either way, I cannot wait for this. Last December felt very empty without another slice of Middle Earth.

 

[J_Tweedy]

I'm tired of Lord of the Rings, and I don't really want to see Peter Jackson ruin the book by making it epic and serious and highly emotional, with a forty-minute slow-motion ending. I don't think he's all that great a director, just a total geek. Judging by what he did to Lord of the Rings in terms of atmosphere (not really a bad thing), he'd better not touch The Hobbit.

You obviously havent seen 'Bad Taste' or 'Braindead.' -movies he made on days off from work with a bunch of mates- they're awesome. I think Pater Jackson is a good director, he just had one of the toughest directing projects of all time. Don't forget, the Lord of the Rings is supposed to be that story that no-one could put to film, and he managed it pretty well.

 

[Teh_Poet]

It'd make the first ever twelve-hour documentary, that's for sure.

There have been documentaries much longer than that.

 

[Reginald]

I know it's not longer but the one of a guy sleeping for 10-hours is pretty close. And the 6-hour one of shots of New York.