Haven’t really be obsessing on it, but some of you might be. Horse’s mouth to you now.
Apparently, there has been some stuff floating around, via the IMAXers, about The Hobbit waiting until 2013. Not the case, according to the Hobbit team. 2012 and 2013 are the current release dates.
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Loved the book, a lot more so than LOTR…bored as hell with hearing about the potential movie.
LYT: Movies.
I’m looking forward to it, but feel that it should have been only a single movie. I’m still waiting for the edit of Kill Bill that makes it a single movie without all the needless fluff.
Yeah, that would be Kill Bill Vol 1.
Hey, wouldn’t showing Hobitts on IMAX defeat the purpose of them being little hobitss? On a more serious note, are these scheduled to be like Christmas or December releases or will these be put out in less than one calendar year?
As far as I can tell, only one will actually be THE HOBBIT. The other will be BULLSHIT FILLER MOVIE WITH ELF EARS.
Shit, I think I just gave Friedberg and Seltzer their next pitch.
Is GUILLERMO DEL TORO some kind of EUNECH or something?
Dude’s got like eight zillion things in development and they’re all like HOBBIT and FRANKENSTEIN and shit about BUGS and COMIC BOOKS.
Doesn’t this dude like VAG? CHRIST, the MAIN REASON TO BE A DIRECTOR is to cast HOT CHICKS and GLAZE THEM UP WITH AN ORANGE SHEEN and FILM THEM LECHEROUSLY from HEAD to TOE.
If I had GDT’s power, I’d film a movie called GLAZE, which would just be two hours of sheened chicks. Why’s this dude always wanna make dorky horror shit with BUGS and CREATURES and MONSTERS and DUMB FUCKING SHIT?
Total fanboy DORK. About as asexual as DAVID ARCHULETA. I don’t trust a director who doesn’t put their SEXUAL FETISHES on screen.
Other than that, he’s kind of a genius, but he needs to make MOVIES ABOUT PRETTY WOMEN.
And he needs to learn to shoot in 2.35.
Is HOBBIT gonna be in his usual TV-like, stagey production design phony backlot 1.85?
That last paragraph is a VALID QUESTION actually.
The HOBBIT movies will only adapt the book. There were plans to make the second one a bridge to LOTR but they were scrapped some time ago. Del Toro says there is an “appropriate” place to end the first movie. My money is on that place being the first appearance of the dragon, Smaug.
ALLO, GUV’NAH!
Someone cast Dick van Dyke in The Hobbit?!?!?
I would pay money to see GLAZE.