The Hobbit Web Gets Stickier...
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Line, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels
As a longtime reader of TheOneRing.net, I've come to appreciate the website as a thorough, passionate and entirely trustworthy resource -- but their latest "scoop" is almost too delicious to bear. Now, I know we're all really upset about Peter Jackson stepping away from New Line's (eventually) impending Hobbit movie(s), but that's life in the big city, kids. Nobody would have done Tolkien's The Hobbit cinematic justice the way Jackson & Company would have, but it looks like we have to chin up and look forward to new possibilities ... like Sam Raimi perhaps?Not at all dissimilar to Jackson himself, Mr. Raimi got his start with a few (very) well-received indie horror flicks before puttering around with some studio success and finally hitting paydirt with a mega-tentpole ultra-trilogy. And TOR.net is reporting that Raimi is being courted for the Hobbit gig. Heck, if New Line is trying to win the fans over after the Jackson disappointment, they sure seem to be getting off on the right foot. It's all speculation at this point, of course, but it sure is fun to imagine what Sam Raimi would do with a tale like The Hobbit.
For those too young to remember past the Spider-Man trilogy, Sam Raimi's filmography remains a colorful one indeed: After making a few splashes with The Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead 2 (1987), with the truly bizarre and annoyingly obscure Crimewave (1985) tucked in between, the filmmaker moved on to Darkman (1990), Army of Darkness (1992), The Quick and the Dead (1995), A Simple Plan (1998), For Love of the Game (1999) and The Gift (2000) before Spidey finally came a'callin'.
So it might just all be a ridiuclous rumor, but a fun one nonetheless. I just want to know how Raimi's going to wedge Bruce Campbell into The Hobbit. Heh.
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11-24-2006 @ 12:56PM
Rich said...
As one of the defective people of the world, who didn't find the LOTR movies a religious experience and who didn't like any of Tolkien's Middle Earth books, I wasn't dying to see the Hobbit or any LOTR prequel to come. With all the fur flying the last week over the movies, I was even less inclined to see them.
IF Sam Raimi does become the director for the Hobbit, I may actually watch it in the theater. But he would have to go back to his style that permeated the Evil Dead movies, Dark Man and Xena.
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11-26-2006 @ 3:25AM
Chris said...
Bruce Campbell is easy - you make him one of the citizens of Laketown. Maybe the archer if you want to give him a bigger role. (As an aside, the scene with the archer would seem to be tailor-made for Raimi to film).
The trickier part is getting Raimi's car into the film. Would seem a bit... anachronistic.
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11-24-2006 @ 1:39PM
Luke G. said...
Hmm...perhaps Bruce Campbell as the voice of Smaug?
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11-24-2006 @ 1:50PM
kip said...
never bit the hand that feeds you. jackson is crazy for filing suit. he will never get a studio to put up capital after king bomb. Sam Raimi for HALO. Bruce campbell as the voice of master chief, YEAH BOY!
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11-24-2006 @ 2:04PM
Rich Drees said...
Well if you'regoing to have a Bruce cameo I would nominae him for being the archer from the human village that takes Smaug down. (It's been so long since I've read the book, I can't remember the character's name.)
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11-27-2006 @ 3:44AM
Mozes said...
In the end the whole story is false. The guy that actually OWNS the rights to Tolkien's stories has stated that he will do everything he can to prevent New Line from making The Hobbit until their option runs out so that he can ensure that Jackson helms it. As for Raimi, He IS making a fantasy film after he finishes Spiderman 3. It does involve little people. It is based on an extremely popular series of fantasy novels. It is The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett.
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