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Re: New Line has license for 'The Hobbit'
« Reply #30 on: April 17, 2007, 01:31 AM »
No.

I couldn't get the AICN.com page to load so I read the article on EW (don't know if they are the same) but the comments by Kirsten Dunst about how a Spider-Man 4 movie would fail without her?  I don't think so.  Her part was one of my least favorite in SP 2 and it's yet to be seen how she'll do in the 3rd film.  Without Tobey?  Ahhhh...I don't know.  Maybe, maybe not.

I will admit, though, that I think a SP movie without Raimi would be unwatchable...in the same way a Middle Earth movie would be unwatchable without Peter Jackson.

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Re: New Line has license for 'The Hobbit'
« Reply #31 on: April 18, 2007, 09:44 AM »
I will admit, though, that I think a SP movie without Raimi would be unwatchable...in the same way a Middle Earth movie would be unwatchable without Peter Jackson.

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I donno. Now that I think about it, I'll bet you can swap the two for the respective projects. Both have the same kinetic energy sense.
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #32 on: May 16, 2007, 06:50 PM »
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #33 on: May 16, 2007, 11:34 PM »
I absolutely loved Master & Commander, but I still can't believe they haven't yet ironed out things with Peter Jackson and just made the goddamn movie.
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #34 on: August 10, 2007, 11:06 PM »
Looks like we can still keep our fingers crossed.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=23203

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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #35 on: August 12, 2007, 06:27 PM »
Tons of news with Raimi to direct and Peter Jackson to produce The Hobbit.  Here is a link: 

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3042&Itemid=99

From the OneRing.Net comes the following (along with the link above)
Don't believe everything you read but this story makes a lot of sense. It also seems that Bob Shaye may have been hinting at this yesterday when he said, "I really respect and admire Peter and would love for him to be creatively involved in some way in 'The Hobbit.' " Notice he didn't say he would "direct" the film but did say "involved in some way".

and from the LA Times:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4160162a1860.html


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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #36 on: August 13, 2007, 12:12 AM »
After spidey 3, I'm not so sure I'd like that idea....although as long as Jackson is creatively involved, Weta has the visuals, Walsh is on the script, and the two Ian's are in the cast then I'm ok.
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #37 on: August 13, 2007, 09:35 AM »
Aaah.  No. 

At first thought, if Jackson and Walsh wrote and produced and Weta did the visuals then someone else directing might work.  But on second thought, no.  Those novels are too important to me and after what Jackson was able to do with LOTR it's unacceptable to me that someone else would get to do the Hobbit.

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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #38 on: August 15, 2007, 09:59 PM »
Sounds good as long as Jackson is involved in some way...

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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #39 on: September 18, 2007, 06:29 PM »
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #40 on: September 27, 2007, 04:22 PM »
Wait a minute. Aragorn wasn't even in the Hobbit. If they start messing with the plot it will end up as bad a Indy 4 will be.
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #41 on: September 27, 2007, 06:35 PM »
I'm assuming it would be a cameo of some sort--such as, they randomly run into him in the woods along the journey.
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #42 on: September 27, 2007, 07:23 PM »
Do you know how old that would make Strider?? Way to F-ing Old.

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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #43 on: September 27, 2007, 11:55 PM »
Do you know how ******* old Strider is in The LOTR? 87.

Actually, now that I look into it, he would be only 10 when The Hobbit takes place. So even if Aragorn did show up, Mortensen definitely wouldn't be back. And he couldn't even play his own father, as he had died when Aragorn was 2.

So it looks like Mortensen is definitely out ... unless they wanted to really screw with the timeline.
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Re: 'The Hobbit' movie
« Reply #44 on: October 8, 2007, 03:39 PM »
The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the conditions between Jackson and New Line may be getting better.

Article is online here: "The Hobbit": Peace in Middle-Earth?

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