Confirmed: 'The Hobbit' Will Be Two Films
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We've all known for a while now that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson's teams of merry filmmakers were planning to make TWO movies out of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, but now we have confirmation of the plan by the filmmakers themselves, and they doled out a few small details to Empire Magazine in honor of the publication's 20th birthday. And those quotes go a little like this:Del Toro: "We've decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur."
Jackson: "We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie. The essential brief was to do The Hobbit, and it allows us to make The Hobbit in a little more style, if you like, of the [LOTR] trilogy."
As Empire's Chris Hewitt observes, this should put to bed those theories that one film would focus on The Hobbit and the second would be some sort of bridging appendices miscellaneous whatnot. Expect a lot more on The Hobbit over the next three years, including every nerdly little tidbit we can get our pipeweed-lovin' hands on.
And hey, Happy Birthday Empire!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-19-2009 @ 9:42PM
mike green said...
you're misunderstanding the statement
just because the hobbit will be split into two movies doesn't mean there won't a third movie, DelToro already told AICN that this might happen but it doesn't involve the mysterious "bridge" movie
there's plenty of stories between the hobbit and LOTR to tell, mostly involving Aragorn
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4-20-2009 @ 2:03AM
mike green said...
any day now they'll annouce James McAvoy as Bilbo
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4-20-2009 @ 1:42AM
Jim said...
Thank you Scott!! I can't explain how good it feels to have any sort of news on the Hobbit! Its makes me feel like all is right with the world now :)
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4-20-2009 @ 12:43PM
Cyhort said...
Ok I'm gonna sound like a nerd here but Peter Jackson calling Lord of the Rings "The Trilogy" really pisses me off. There is only one trilogy that deserves to be referred to as "THe Trilogy" and that's the original Star Wars trilogy.
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4-20-2009 @ 12:53PM
Scott Weinberg said...
We're all nerds here, so that's no problem. I do, however, assert that, given the disparity of relative quality between RETURN OF THE JEDI and RETURN OF THE KING, perhaps you should reconsider your position. ;-]