Brahm_K wrote:
I'm actually getting less and less excited about this. Del Toro is a great director, true, but in the past he's talked about how he hates epic fantasy and how he couldn't get through Lord of the Rings- thats not exactly the type of guy I'd like adapting the Hobbit, even if Pan's Labyrinth rules.
Really? Hmmmm... On the other hand, The Hobbit isn't really that epic, so maybe that's why he took the job.
Quote:
I'm also increasingly concerned about this second movie business... I see no justification for it, and I mean, you have some information about the years between Hobbit and Rings in Unfinished Tales and Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's notes, but nowhere near enough to make a good, cohesive movie out of it.
This is my big question mark too. I can't possibly imagine what are they thinking and how will they do anything consistent from this. We'll just have to wait and see I guess. But the justification is there: more money
LE: I actually can think of only one way this could work: if they take stuff that happens at the same time with the main story but isn't described in the book, but in other notes (like Gandalf going to face the Necromancer, the White Council's charge and banish of Necromancer, Aragorn roaming Middle-earth and doing whatever, courting Arwen or whatever, Saruman searching for the ring etc), inflate it and mix it in the main story of Bilbo and the dwarfs. Then split the whole thing in half. That's the only way to go, I think. To make an entire second movie about stuff that happens after the battle fo the five armies is simply too anticlimatic to work.
