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Peter Jackson to Produce Two Hobbit Movies in 2009
Peter Jackson has won his bid to be Producer for two upcoming Hobbit films. After a rather bitter struggle regarding final compensation for the first three Lord of the Rings movies, MGM is finally able to have Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will Executive Produce both a Hobbit movie and a sequel. Jackson is apparently not the Director, however his involvement will satisfy most fans who were convinced the studios (namely New Line Cinema) would make a huge mistake by pulling him from the production.
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Such good news. Nobody could pull it off like him. He has a love for the source material.
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The article I read actually said he has not been named as director for these films, though that could either be a formality or he will merely "consult".
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I doubt very much that an attempt would be made on The Silmarillion. There is too much information in it to effectively make a movie. It would take longer than all the Star Wars movies and LoTR movies AND the new hobbit movie put together to even scratch the surface.
That book was a heavy read!!
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I haven't read it yet, have it, but haven't had any free time to dig into it. I think they are going to try to either add bits from the other books and/or more relative to LOTR or the plan is to make it into two movies and really flesh the story out (and raise box office numbers...).
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They could easily break Hobbit into two stories... Probably breaking it just before/after Beorn's house would be the mid-point (theatrically-speaking). They could also involve some scenes of Gandalf's visit to the Necromancer (Sauron) which would be AWESOME since this isn't fleshed out much in the main books.
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Only the biggest battle in all of the books...
He could also move things around as he did in the LOTRs, to reveal certain aspects later in the story rather than up front (Smeagol/Deagol, moving Shelob to 3rd movie, etc...). At first I didn't like some of the things that he did, but cinematically it did work. He could also include a bit of the missing story at the beginning of FOTR.
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My biggest regret of the LOTR trilogy was not seeing the Hobbits kick total butt in the end like with the books... that was a bummer, but I understand considering he already has like 4 hours of film...
That was such a 'coming of age' moment... when they walk back in town and they're like "You gotta be kidding me - we just faced off with Sauron's armies and now some thugs think they can enslave the Shire?"
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