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06-12-2009, 08:33 PM | #21 |
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After ROTK, I had thought they'd get to "The Hobbit" sooner. I'd actually imagined the story told as a flashback with new scenes reuniting the cast: Sam, Merry and Pippin and their families journey to Minas Tirith to celebrate the destruction of the Ring, and meet Faramir married to Eowyn, Aragorn and Arwen, Legolas and Gimli, Eomer and some of the other characters. Sam reads from the Red Book and that is how the "The Hobbit" story is introduced. So basically Sean Astin would narrate and it would a sort of prequel/sequel hybrid.
That's not a bad vision for it at all, and hardcore LOTR geeks like us would love it. Hell I'd love to see a movie that covered Aragorn's major gallantries as a younger man, using the name "Thorongil," when he fought with the Rohirrim under Theoden's father, and knew Denethor as a young man. I'd love to see the final endings of all the characters; Merry and Pippin coming south to Rohan as old Hobbits and staying with Eomer till he passed, then coming to Minas Tirith to die and being given biers of honor next to Aragorn's eventual grave. I'd love to see all of that. Unfortunately...I think a lot of that material is not free for adaptation. Not certain of that, but much of the appendices and all of the ancillary material from other books are not licensed for adaptation.
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06-12-2009, 08:47 PM | #22 |
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That's funny...there's actually a game based on Aragorn's earlier life in production, with an older Sam narrating by reading to his kids. It's very much a game directed at children, though.
There's an independently fan-made move about Aragorn's search for Gollum. I haven't seen it, but have heard that its good for an amateur production. The Hunt For Gollum Movie Website A lot of the footage of what happened after the Ring destruction already exists...Eowyn's and Faramir's wedding, for example. I've seen brief clips of Gimli in the Glittering Caves and Legolas in Ithilien, too. |
06-12-2009, 08:53 PM | #23 |
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here is my impression of lord of the rings.. walking... walking... walking... drops ring in valcano, sam looks at the other hobbit with that oh so goofy look... the end. lol not really but i couldnt help but think of clerks II when randall is ripping on those lord of the rings kids. ahhh that was great.
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06-12-2009, 08:54 PM | #24 |
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Huge Tolkein fan... Ever since picking up the Hobbit in High School I've been hooked...great mythology, very well lanned out and a HUGE backstory. This is the kind of writing and imagination that just trumps anything before or after it witht he exception of maybe the bible. Lucas has a great mythology going, but Tolkein managed to start from the beginning in the Simarillion and work his way through his mythology....
With that kind of time and energy spent into something ;like this, it's hard not to at least respect to respect it even if you don't like it. I for one LOVED the LOTR movie and can't wait till 2011 for the Hobbit... We've been deprived of the Shire for too long now.
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06-12-2009, 11:06 PM | #25 |
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Pan's Labyrinth was utterly stunning IMO; he is probably the only director who can visually top Peter Jackson's vision of the LOTR world.
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06-12-2009, 11:47 PM | #26 |
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here is my impression of lord of the rings.. walking... walking... walking... drops ring in valcano, sam looks at the other hobbit with that oh so goofy look... the end. lol not really but i couldnt help but think of clerks II when randall is ripping on those lord of the rings kids. ahhh that was great.
I've always preferred sword-and-sorcery fantasy to the comic sci-fi genre. I'm one of THOSE people. I remember playing Lord of the Rings with toys from other lines as a child, mostly Dungeons & Dragons. I never knew 'til I was an adult they'd made some from the Bakshi film. I was a big fan of the Rankin-Bass animation, also. Last edited by Barefoot Jedi; 06-12-2009 at 11:50 PM.. |
06-15-2009, 01:37 PM | #27 |
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I don't think he needs to look 60 years younger. Even Gandalf remarks in FOTR how Bilbo looks like he hasn't aged much in the intervening years.
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06-15-2009, 01:54 PM | #28 |
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defintely not a bad choice for a director...i loved pans labrynth the hell boy movies and the blade films so this will be great. hopefully he doesnt have to cut too much of the story cause as good as LOTr was ( and it was fantastic) there was TON they left out. Im excited.
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06-15-2009, 01:54 PM | #29 |
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Nothing could ever top the 1970s Hobbit cartoon.
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06-15-2009, 02:03 PM | #30 |
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He hasn't aged in the years since Gandalf last saw him, which is unlikely to be since the adventures chronicle in The Hobbit. Note I did not say he has to look sixty years younger, but rather that Bilbo IS, indeed, 60 years younger in The Hobbit. He is fifty-one in that book, one-hundred and eleven (eleventyone) in Fellowship. Now, sixty years to a Hobbit is different than sixty to a human (we come of age at 18-21, Hobbits at 33) but still, Bilbo will have to be significantly younger. Now if they have the technology to make Ian Holm look young enough to pull it off, great; he's a great actor and made a fantastic Bilbo. But I doubt they can do so in a truly believable way, unless they made it entirely a digitized performance (a la Andy Serkis as Gollum) but that would seem exessive and unnecessary IF PJ and GDT can find an actor they believe in.
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