Misty Mountain Hop

[Planish]

From the "U.K. Samurai sword ban" thread:

I think you might have missed the bigger story.

Woo-hoo!.

It doesn't surprise me. IIRC, the only set that was not demolished from LOTR was the Bag End interiors. PJ said he had both of them (People and Hobbit scale) stashed away in a warehouse somewhere, and it is the only set that is common to LOTR and The Hobbit.

Oh wait ... they stopped for a night in Rivendell on their way East, didn't they? Maybe that scene will be cut, with much of the exposition given to Beorn.

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Hmmm... two movies?  I thought the Hobbit was a little more straightforward than that.

Still... any word on who might play young Bilbo?

[eytanz]

Hmmm... two movies?  I thought the Hobbit was a little more straightforward than that.

Not to be cynical or anything, but why have one movie that will bring in hundreds of millions when you can have two?

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Hmmm... two movies?  I thought the Hobbit was a little more straightforward than that.

Not to be cynical or anything, but why have one movie that will bring in hundreds of millions when you can have two?

Yes, but is there more to it than that?  Am I forgetting something about the Hobbit that would require two movies? LOTR was already logically divided into 3 parts, while the Hobbit was definitely one story/volume. 

Not that cynicism would keep me from seeing them... but it would make me grouchy while I was standing in line at the ticket kiosk.


[Edit: It occurs to me that I should expect no less from the man who turned King Kong into an interminable epic...]

[birdless]

Hmmm... two movies?  I thought the Hobbit was a little more straightforward than that.

Still... any word on who might play young Bilbo?

Actually, I can totally see it filling two movies. There's quite a lot that happens between the Shire and Smaug: trolls, wolves, Beorn, Mirkwood, spiders, eagles, Wood Elves... and that's just off the top of my head.

[Tango Alpha Delta]

Hmmm... two movies?  I thought the Hobbit was a little more straightforward than that.

Still... any word on who might play young Bilbo?

Actually, I can totally see it filling two movies. There's quite a lot that happens between the Shire and Smaug: trolls, wolves, Beorn, Mirkwood, spiders, eagles, Wood Elves... and that's just off the top of my head.

I had a nasty case of wood elves, once... took that blue, stinky shampoo to get them off the top of my head..

Guess I'll have to revisit the Hobbit before the movie comes out.  Looks like I have two years in which to do it.

[Darwinist]

I hope The Hobbit is  directed by the big tubby Peter Jackson that did LOTR and not the dapper skinny Peter Jackson that did King Kong, or was that King of Kong?  I get those two movies mixed up. 

[oddpod]

del toro is looking like the man for the job at the moment, jakson is produsing

[DKT]

IIRC, the two movies will be split into the Hobbit and a bunch of the stories Tolkien wrote that form the bridge between the Hobbit and LotR.  I'm not sure if that means the Hobbit will be one movie and Part 2 will be the Appendices. 

And I keep seeing what oddpod posted -- it looks like Guillermo del Toro will direct and PJ will produce.  (At one point, I think Sam Raimi might have been in talks.)

[stePH]

Still... any word on who might play young Bilbo?

Why not Ian Holm again?  They can work wonders with makeup these days

[oddpod]

Still... any word on who might play young Bilbo?

Why not Ian Holm again?  They can work wonders with makeup these days

be good if thay can pull it off, but ian homes is realy geting on a bit now, then agane billbo is midele aged when he ferst set out from the shire

[Rachel Swirsky]

then agane billbo is midele aged when he ferst set out from the shire

(Speaking of, should I reveal we've got an Andy Duncan Tolkein riff, featuring our lad Bilbo's grandson, scheduled for November 4?

Whoops, guess I just did. ;-) )

[Heradel]

It's confirmed that Del Toro will direct.

[DKT]

I really hope they do bring back Ian Holmes.  It will go a long way to keep the continuity they seem to be really striving for in the movies.  It won't be as bad as getting someone else to play Gandalf, but it'd be a bit awkward.  Especially if a lot of the cast from LotR is supposed to be in the 2nd "bridge" movie.

[birdless]

I really hope they do bring back Ian Holmes.  It will go a long way to keep the continuity they seem to be really striving for in the movies.  It won't be as bad as getting someone else to play Gandalf, but it'd be a bit awkward.  Especially if a lot of the cast from LotR is supposed to be in the 2nd "bridge" movie.

I don't have the source, but my wife said Holmes was reprising his role.... or is that 'preprising'??

EDIT!! Sorry! I meant Ian McKellen. Have no clue about Ian Holm.

[stePH]

I really hope they do bring back Ian Holmes.  It will go a long way to keep the continuity they seem to be really striving for in the movies.  It won't be as bad as getting someone else to play Gandalf, but it'd be a bit awkward.  Especially if a lot of the cast from LotR is supposed to be in the 2nd "bridge" movie.

I don't have the source, but my wife said Holmes was reprising his role.... or is that 'preprising'??

Who is "Ian Holmes"? 

[DKT]

Hey, haven't you been verified enough already for one week? 

[Planish]

Ron Perlman as Thorin? (rumored) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
I s'pose so.

It would be great if Cate, Hugo, Ian, and Andy were back.