The Hobbit movies

[emindead]

"Martin Freeman to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604193

Yeah saw that today. He seems to be in everything these days...

I only recognize him from playing the soft porn actor in "Love Actually"

[ariich]

Well ok I was exaggerating somewhat, but he also played Arthur Dent in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Dr Watson in the recent BBC version of Sherlock, plus he was in Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.

[chknptpie]

I heard that Ian Mckellen was getting upset it was taking so long... is he gonna play Gandolf?

[Accelerando]

I heard that Ian Mckellen was getting upset it was taking so long... is he gonna play Gandolf?

Well, he isn't getting any younger! And yes, he is.

[chknptpie]

I heard that Ian Mckellen was getting upset it was taking so long... is he gonna play Gandolf?

Well, he isn't getting any younger! And yes, he is.

Good news everyone!

[ariich]

I heard that Ian Mckellen was getting upset it was taking so long... is he gonna play Gandolf?

Well, he isn't getting any younger! And yes, he is.

Good news everyone!

[PlaysLikeMyung]

I heard that Ian Mckellen was getting upset it was taking so long... is he gonna play Gandolf?

Well, he isn't getting any younger! And yes, he is.

Good news everyone!

goddammit rich

[Volk9]

More to do with LOTR than anything, but I just got this:

https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Picture-Platinum-Extended/dp/B000654ZK0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1287880514&sr=8-2-spell

[Fluffy Lothario]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11617860

I'm taking a class on this tomorrow, so I've had to read right up on it.

Just goes to show how tiny the NZ economy actually is, and how significant the LOTR films were for the country. Literally the Prime Minister is meeting up with Warner Bros executives to try and turn them around.

[ehra]

Thinking about this recently, the thing I'm most interested in is how they're going to get out of a corner they backed themselves into with the LOTR movies. The way they portrayed the ring there, anyone who puts it on is automatically sensed/seen by Sauron. This really isn't the case in the books, and Bilbo spends weeks (months?) with the ring on while trying to figure out how to save Thorin and co. from the wood elves (not to mention all of the other times he uses it in The Hobbit).

[PlaysLikeMyung]

Doesn't the ring affect people differently though? I mean, Tom Bombadil was completely immune to the ring's powers, so it could be explained that way.

Also, in the first movie, bilbo puts on the ring to disappear, but we don't see Sauron's Eye focusing on  him

[ehra]

It displays its power differently depending on the wearer (Hobbits are already meek things that are beneath most people's notice so it makes them invisible, but for a powerful elf lord or a Wizard like Gandalf it would grant more power and dominance over others. Tom Bombadil was immune to it because he's Tom Bombadil), but that'd be different from its power to corrupt or call out to Sauron.

Although, like you pointed out, the LOTR movies weren't even consistent in this part so maybe they'll just ignore it.

[Lynxo]

https://screenrant.com/the-hobbit-ian-mckellen-gandalf-kofi-67153/

No Ian McKellen??

[Summers]

Well that's from July.  The film has been given the ok now so hopefully McKellen will be able to do it.  That would really suck having someone else as Gandalf!

[Lynxo]

Well that's from July.  The film has been given the ok now so hopefully McKellen will be able to do it.  That would really suck having someone else as Gandalf!

Oh, my bad. Yeah, I agree, it would not be the same without him. They shouldn't even do the film without him IMO.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

Well that's from July.  The film has been given the ok now so hopefully McKellen will be able to do it.  That would really suck having someone else as Gandalf!

Oh, my bad. Yeah, I agree, it would not be the same without him. They shouldn't even do the film without him IMO.

This.

Actually, I'm surprised they're not using the same actor for Bilbo.

I'm wondering who's going to voice Smaug

[hefdaddy42]

McKellen is still unsigned as Gandalf.  Although I expect that to be rectified fairly soon.

[ariich]

Doesn't the ring affect people differently though? I mean, Tom Bombadil was completely immune to the ring's powers, so it could be explained that way.

Also, in the first movie, bilbo puts on the ring to disappear, but we don't see Sauron's Eye focusing on  him

Also, the whole idea is that Sauron's power is growing and growing throughout LOTR. Back in The Hobbit, his power was pretty non-existant.

[ehra]

Doesn't the ring affect people differently though? I mean, Tom Bombadil was completely immune to the ring's powers, so it could be explained that way.

Also, in the first movie, bilbo puts on the ring to disappear, but we don't see Sauron's Eye focusing on  him

Also, the whole idea is that Sauron's power is growing and growing throughout LOTR. Back in The Hobbit, his power was pretty non-existant.

I don't know.... the dwarves seemed pretty scared of "the Necromancer" in The Hobbit, and it's been awhile since I read it but I don't remember Gandalf having a particularly easy time when he went to Dol Guldur to see what was up.

[ariich]

Oh I'm sure Jackson will still make a big deal about using the Ring, but I imagine he'll hold back from going all out "THE EYE OF SAURON IS WATCHING YOU", while still keeping it consistent.

[ehra]

Yeah, they're smart guys and they'll definitely be able able to make it work (although now I'm curious why Bilbo didn't get eye-spy'd when he put it on during his birthday in The Fellowship). Just curious how they'll do it. 

[ariich]

Yeah, should be interesting!

[PlaysLikeMyung]

I'm going to re-read my LOTR/Hobbit/misc middle earth books sometime soon. I think it's about time

[ehra]

This is a great companion to the books:

https://www.tolkienprofessor.com/lectures/wc_class.html

The guy does college lectures on lots of Tolkien's works then puts the audio on his site for free. A lot of the incites (especially from Tolkien's earlier essays) are fascinating.

[AcidLameLTE]

https://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/peter-jackson-nabs-thirty-red-epic-cameras-to-film-the-hobbit-t/

We're still slightly bummed that Peter Jackson never made Halo, but this should patch things up a tad -- the Lord of the Rings director will film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC cameras, starting early next year. That's the news straight from RED founder Jim Jannard, but that's not all, as a limited number of pre-production EPIC packages will be available to early adopters as well. $58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budding director a machined EPIC-M body, titanium PL mount, Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, a REDmote, a four-pack of batteries, a charger and a solid state storage module with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects to hand-assemble that first batch of 5K imagers in December or January, start the real assembly lines a month after that, and hopefully have widespread availability by NAB in April, though he's not making any promises there. That's how RED rolls.

[orcus116]

I stopped at 3D. What depressing news.

[lonestar]

I'm wondering who's going to voice Smaug

Only one answer, Morgan Freeman.

[Kura]

Yay this is really exciting!! :3

[PlaysLikeMyung]

I stopped at 3D. What depressing news.

I don't care as long as the movie is good

I'm wondering who's going to voice Smaug

Only one answer, Morgan Freeman.

[lonestar]

[MorganFreemanvoice] Revenge? You? I am SMAUG! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, STRONG! My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears! The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, death! [/MorganFreemanvoice]

[PlaysLikeMyung]

So I'm looking at the imdb right now and it says that Galadriel is rumored to be in the movie.


Aaaaand, why, precisely?

[YtseBitsySpider]

I dunno about Morgan Freeman...but suspect the James Earl Jones would know if he'd eaten a dwarf ridden pony!


Some nifty CGI for Beorn I suspect. I'm looking forward to the comedy of the particular scene with all the dwarves coming up.

[Summers]

https://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/29/extra-too-brown-the-hobbit

"It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin," Ms Humphreys told the Waikato Times. "The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned."
 

[Xanthul]

https://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/nov/29/extra-too-brown-the-hobbit

"It's 2010 and I still can't believe I'm being discriminated against because I have brown skin," Ms Humphreys told the Waikato Times. "The casting manager basically said they weren't having anybody who wasn't pale-skinned."
 

PC is driving this world down the stupidity drain pretty fast.

[ariich]

She'd soon be complaining if a white guy was given the part in a biopic about Martin Luther King.