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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!
Fantastic Four and the Ever-Changing Title!
Filed under: Fandom », 20th Century Fox », Comic/Superhero/Geek », Remakes and Sequels »
If you remember a few months back, I did an interview with TV & movie-writer Don Payne, presently of The Simpsons and the recently-vanished My Super Ex-Girlfriend. He's also the screenwriter on next year's Fantastic Four sequel, and he just dropped me an email to offer some news that's presently making the rounds: The sequel title is officially Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer.I'm hardly the resident comics expert (Mark's on vacation!), but think it's a nifty enough title ... better than something like Fantastic Four 2 or Fantastic Four: More Four!, I suppose. According to reports, the Surfer will be portrayed in his villainous stage, and I'm picturing the guy as sorta like a live-action Frozone -- which sounds pretty cool to me, but my knowledge of The Silver Surfer is pretty much limited to the Tarantino-penned piece of banter from Crimson Tide. Oh, and Dr. Doom is back too, as are the original Fantastic Foursome and director Tim Story.
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