The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting 233
Tiger4 writes "Warner Bros. has announced that production has officially begun on Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Jackson even posted a couple of pictures of himself on one of the sets. This despite the strikes, bankruptcies, contract disputes, and legal actions that have swarmed Jackson and the project since his Lord of the Rings days. Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen."
Could take it or leave it. (Score:4, Interesting)
LOTR was okay. The remake will no doubt be better (except for the inevitable downgrade in the Arwen department).
But there were like 18 hours of it. Left me somewhat burnt out.
Unless Jackson has significantly altered his style I'm not sure The Hobbit will feel like anything new.
This one has me worried (Score:5, Interesting)
There are two major encounters which can completely blow the film. The obvious is Smaug. I haven't seen a good dragon since Dragonslayer. The second is the spiders in the woods. I am not overly worried about the Worgs meeting on the hilltop but the Eagles may be a bit more an issue. The story in The Hobbit is more fantastic from the non humanoid side than LOTR was. So it opens itself to more chances to be bad.
As for where they break the story, probably after the Spiders and having the dwarves doing their barrel ride, else after the trolls. I am not really sure where a good break is with this book but those the two major events before getting to the Lonely Mountain.