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?"
Re:Money grab (Score:4, Informative)
Edit: So after RTFA it looks like the third movie will be stuff gleaned from Tolkien's other works, not anything that actually occurs in the novel The Hobbit.
Re:Plenty of authentic material left.. (Score:3, Informative)
If they're going to make 3 Tolkien films, New Line/Jackson's hands are pretty much tied to events in and those surrounding The Hobbit.
Re:Here we go! (Score:4, Informative)
come on, the Silmarillion is hardly a story. its much more like an appendix or as wikipedia puts it a legendarium. you couldnt make that a coherent movie any more than you could make the entire bible a single movie.
What are you talking about? Have you ever read it?
The rise of the races and the fall of the trees; the stories of Finwe, Feanor, etc; Beren and Luthie; Gondolin; Numenor; the wars of the first and second ages; and so on...
The Silmarillion is probably my favorite book of them all simply because of the epic scale of the stories that it tells, and it's the only one I've reread multiple times. The first time through it a lot of people get turned off by the very beginning, but honestly you can't stop there.
It transitions into very conventional storytelling pretty quickly and has a LOT to tell. I think it got much better the second time through because I wasn't having so much trouble keeping the names straight, and everything was much clearer.
It would make for some seriously epic movies imo. There's war, betrayal, and even romance on a MUCH larger scale than either the Hobbit or LotR.
Re:Based on previous works... (Score:4, Informative)
My first thought was that if the Hobbit is worth 3 movies, why didn't he make 6 or more movies out of LotR?
I agree that his movies butchered LotR. Visually, they are fantastic. But the dialog and edits to the story make me cringe. It's LotR, not Bored of the Rings! I knew Bombadil would be cut, and wasn't too bothered by that. But to cut the Scouring of the Shire?! Big, big mistake! I heard there's a director's cut that has Scouring of the Shire, but I haven't seen it. Just as bad is that so much was cheapened and trivialized. Gimli is turned into the butt of a bunch of lame short jokes. The hobbits might as well be just simple, naughty children greedily thieving for food, with no thought for anything beyond their bellies. I didn't like Merry and Pippin getting into Gandalf's fireworks, or the Bree scene where Aragorn swings Frodo about by the arm as if he was a naughty child. Gollum frames Sam for stealing food, and Frodo is dumb enough to believe this?! Then there's the way Arwen greets Aragorn by rubbing in her elvish superiority and kissing his throat with a sword. And, can't anyone make a LotR film without hoking up a silly wizard's battle between Gandalf and Saruman? And the Ents being dumbed down and refusing to help, until Treebeard walks into a wasteland of fresh stumps, as if there were no strong hints beforehand of Saruman's treachery. And some elves showing up at Helm's Deep and announcing that they came to die. And the bit about Denethor being a lame, retarded, stubborn idiot in refusing to call for help but so easily bypassed when Gandalf has Pippin sneak up to the beacon and light it. And when the attack on Minas Tirith starts, a random orc officer drops the painfully cheesy line that now is the age of orcs as he stabs to death a soldier of Gondor.
Re:Based on previous works... (Score:5, Informative)
Don't forget the complete libelous defamation done to Faramir's character, who was possibly the most amazing example of a human in the books.
“If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.”
“But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”