Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you good tidings! The Hobbit movie is on, as well as a sequel!! Del Toro will direct, and Jackson/Walsh will produce (hopefully they'll write too!).
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As awesome as Del Toro is, and his sucking up to the fanboys notwithstanding, everything about this is starting to scare me. For example, read this article and tell me you're still excited.
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/04/25/del_hobbit/index.html
This is my favorite part:
[H]asn’t anybody noticed that del Toro has repeatedly said he doesn’t like Tolkien, and that he never finished reading “The Lord of the Rings”? Here’s what he told me in Cannes in 2006, when I asked him about the influence of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis on his own work: “I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff.”
The sequel idea seems even worse. I imagine it developed like this:
[deep in the bowels of NEW LINE]:
Stuffed Shirt #1: hey, so we've finally got the hobbit project nailed down, Peter's on board, Guillermo's on board...
Stuffed Shirt #2: Hmm...this is the only successful movie we've ever made...I smell sequel.
Stuffed Shirt #3: Yeah yeah yeah, Everyone's doing it. Just think of all the wildly successful and truly charming Pirates and Star Wars sequels, those movies were dynamite. This is a win-win.
Stuffed Shirt #2: Woah, you might be on to something here...Plus, and this is so great...NO SOURCE MATERIAL! We can do anything we want here people.
Stuffed Shirt #1: Hey, and this is just a hypothetical, but do you think we could work in a terminator battle scene with Smaug? You know, like AvsP style? Recent studies have shown that one LOTR's only untapped demographics is non-virgin teenage males. Maybe we could even get Michael Bay to collaborate with Guillermo!!!
Stuffed Shirt # 3: I'm on the phone right now...
I like your cynicism dude, and it's not without validity. I'd much rather see Jackson at the helm than Del Toro, however, here is a counterpoint to your view.
Excerpt:
Del Toro on his "not interested in heroic fantasy" comment at Cannes to MTV: "I wasn’t. I completely gravitated towards horror. For whatever reason, I never hooked into sword and sorcery. I really rediscovered fantasy through my love of filmmakers as a filmmaker. Something kind of popped and jelled. I now can empathize with one side of the fantasy genre without ever wandering into lubricated musclemen with giant swords. “The Hobbit” occupies a particular seat in fantasy that is irreplaceable. They can dredge up old cadavers in my closet. I’m not running for president. I’m a f—ing filmmaker! I’m just trying to make the movie I want to."
Also, the intervening years between the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings were already largely written by J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien, so they shouldn't be able to muck it up too bad, but that one does have me nervous!
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