The Hobbit : Discussion/News/Speculation

[tombombadil]

hate to break it to you but i made a thread just like this except without as much detail. use the thread searcher.
Byt who cares about that i'm just glad it's getting made!

[MrsB108]

Del Toro Confirmed as Director of Hobbit and Brings Along McKellen and Serkis

http://spoilertv-movies.blogspot.com...rector-of.html

[Jumper_One]

Del Toro Confirmed as Director of Hobbit and Brings Along McKellen and Serkis

http://spoilertv-movies.blogspot.com...rector-of.html

thanks

[Madwelshboy]

Del Toro 'feels no pressure' on 'Hobbit'

Guillermo del Toro has claimed that he is not feeling any pressure working on highly-anticipated Lord Of The Rings prequel The Hobbit.

The Hellboy director told Radio 5 Live's Simon Mayo that he isn't worried about matching the critical and commercial successor of Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy.

He said: "Frankly no. If I live the experience like that I would go insane. I don't know if there's a compartment in my brain that just doesn't register those things. I feel an enormous responsibility but not to the results, either by Oscars or box office."

He continued: "I have an enormous responsibility to a book I adore and to a legacy of a world. Creatively I feel very responsible and very daunted, but honoured, doing this."

Del Toro admitted that preparing the epic two-movie adaptation of JRR Tolkien's novel has been demanding: "I go to work at 9am. We open The Hobbit office 9am to 8pm. We are working on the screenplay [and] designing creatures at WETA.

"The first movie, if it stays on schedule, comes out 2011. The second movie 2012, Christmas time."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a...on-hobbit.html

[Madwelshboy]

Del Toro Confirms 3 "Hobbit" Cast Members!

Guillermo del Toro appeared as a guest on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Show yesterday (via TheOneRing.net) and spoke a little about "The Hobbit". Information has been sketchy on this and continues to be because apparently Del Toro knows as much about the movie at this point as we do! But he did confirm the return of 3 heavy hitters from the LOTR franchise..

Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Hugo Weaving as Elrond, and Andy Serkis as Gollum.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...e/news/?a=7937

[Care]

Those three were pretty much a given for me. At least we know now though. I haven't been to TORN in forever. Lots of purists there. I am not really a purest, I actually loved a lot of the changes from LOTR. I am pretty excited to see what they will do with the bridge movie. There are so many things they could pull from the appendices. 2011 is coming fast.

[Madwelshboy]

Harry Potter, Dr. Who or is it Bilbo Baggins?

“The whisper we keep hearing in recent days is that the name of the lead star in Guillermo del Toro’s ”The Hobbit” will be announced next week at Comic-Con International” says Hero Complex, a kind of geek blog that lies within the L.A. Times.

With Peter Jackson in attendance at the Con for the first time next week, it has become the logical fanboy premonition that we are going to find out something major about The Hobbit, especially with del Toro and Jackson repeating over and over again over the last few months that they know the man they want for the part.

The names put forward by the blog do raise some eyebrows though. Dr. Who’s David Tennant, Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe, the always spoken about James McAvoy and er, Jack Black.

http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movi...bo-baggins.php

[PMN1]

Rumour is David Tennant will play Bibo..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/f...he-Hobbit.html

[Alan Wake]

I don't know much about The lord of the rings series, but is the Hobbit movie going to be another set of movies? or just one film?

[the fifth man]

I don't know much about The lord of the rings series, but is the Hobbit movie going to be another set of movies? or just one film?

Two films, I believe.

[Madwelshboy]

In anticipation of production on The Hobbit, TheOneRing.net reported that the re-building of Hobbiton has begun, with the planting of hedgerows and fruit trees on the New Zealand set (above; click to enlarge) that was previously used in The Lord of the Rings

http://scifiwire.com/2009/07/news-br...cipline-co.php

[Madwelshboy]

No Bilbo at Con

“No, we won’t be announcing Bilbo for a little while,” says Peter Jackson to Empire when asked about the rumors an actor would be attached to the lead role of The Hobbit at the San Diego Comic Con. “We’re starting to think about casting, but we’re knee-deep in the script right now. And when we do go to actors, they’re probably going to ask to see a script, so we’re powering ahead with getting the first draft done.”

http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movi...lbo-at-con.php

[Madwelshboy]

Peter Jackson Lets Go Some Hobbit News At The Comic Con

We're about three weeks away from turning over the first draft of the script to the studio,” revealed Jackson. That’s the script for the first Hobbit movie – the second still only exists in the form of “an extensive treatment”. He said that he and Guillermo del Toro are particularly enjoying writing for the movies’ unruly mob of dwarves. “We have 13 dwarves to cast – it’s going to be a lot of fun. Though there’s 13 poor guys who are going to be walking around the mountains in summer wearing heavy costumes, sweating under their prosphetic make-up. It’s going to be tough. And logistically tough – imagine getting those guys through wardrobe at the beginning of each day and then shooting… They'll be passing out from heat. It’s going to be tricky.”

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit...S/news/?a=8737

[Madwelshboy]

SDCC: Peter Jackson clears up all those Hobbit rumors

During Friday's Comic-Con panel for the upcoming alien internment drama District 9, the directorial debut of Neill Blomkamp, producer Peter Jackson took a moment at the start of the presentation to address lingering rumors about how far production has developed on The Hobbit, his and director Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited follow-up to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

continues:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/07/sdcc-pe...son-clears.php

[Madwelshboy]

What Peter Jackson plans for the two Hobbit movies and why

Today producer/director Peter Jackson talks about The Hobbit films, updates us on their status, debunks a few rumors and talks about what the two movies will actually encompass and why.

Among the highlights: The script for the first film is about three weeks away; no casting has been decided; the two movies will encompass the story in the book and won't be one movie about the book and a second to bridge the period between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, as has been speculated; and the films will draw in narratives from the same era as told in other writings.

http://scifiwire.com/2009/07/what-pe...kson-plans.php