Peter Jackson Announces Third Hobbit Movie 303
eldavojohn writes "Unless his Facebook account has been hacked, Peter Jackson has announced a third movie for The Hobbit series: 'So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of The Hobbit films, I'd like to announce that two films will become three.' Other sites are confirming this while Variety notes that filming has been wrapped on the first two so doing a third film will require a restart to all of that effort including re-negotiations with rights holders and acting schedules. **potential spoiler alert** From Peter Jackson's announcement: 'We know how much of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance.' How much of Middle Earth would you like to see on film?"
Just wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait 'till he gets his hands on the Silmarillion. It would open the door to a decade+ soap opera television for geeks!
finally getting around to my favorite volume: (Score:5, Funny)
"Tim, Tim Benzedrine!
Hash! Boo! Valvoline!
Clean! Clean! Clean for Gene!
First, second, neutral, park,
Hie thee hence, you leafy narc!
Re:Money grab (Score:5, Funny)
I was wary about stretching it into 2 movies. Its not that long of a book, not much actually happens. 3 movies is just a money grab by the studio.
I wasn't worried about that until I heard the titles for the three movies:
Re:Here we go! (Score:5, Funny)
Will we get a version where Frodo shoots first?
Re:Money grab (Score:5, Funny)
I wasn't worried about that until I heard the titles for the three movies:
The Hobbit
The Hobbit Reloaded
The Hobbit Revolutions
It could be worse. Imagine:
Hobbit: The Quickening
How much of Middle Earth would I like to see? (Score:4, Funny)
Just The Silmarillion [wikipedia.org]. Is that really too much to ask?
In an unrelated note, if anyone has a mop, I accidentally dripped sarcasm all over the floor and need to clean it up.
Re:Money grab (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Money grab (Score:4, Funny)
Alien vs. Fredy Krueger vs. the Hobbit
Re:Plenty of authentic material left.. (Score:5, Funny)
The movies didn't make much money. Something about sets burning in Uganda.
Also they weren't popular. Hardly anybody saw them more than five or six times. And nobody bought all of the DVD sets.
Fair disclosure, I think I saw them once in the theaters, I own the DVDs which I bought off clearance.
Really, they probably lost money.
Re:Here we go! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Here we go! (Score:4, Funny)
You get the version where Bilbo wins the ring, and the version where Bilbo steals it. True to the source material.
Re:Here we go! (Score:4, Funny)
Hey that gives me an idea.
You could turn the Scouring of the Shire into an action movie. Nicolas Cage could play Frodo, Amber Heard could play his love interest.