{"id":16750,"date":"2014-12-09T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=16750"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:35:17","slug":"hobbit-one-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/news\/hobbit-one-film\/","title":{"rendered":"What if <em>The Hobbit<\/em> was only one film?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100% !important;\" height=\"512px\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjn3FmTCyL8?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think I speak for a lot of you when I say that Peter Jackson&#8217;s (unfortunately) epic adaptation of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> by J.R.R. Tolkien might have benefitted from some brevity. Ignoring the additions made by Jackson and his writers, the films are just too long, and the source material spread too thin (like butter over too much bread.) I eagerly await the day that one of the many talented hobbyist film editors cuts a version of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> that runs about four hours. What would that look like?<\/p>\n<p>Well, film editor Joel Walden wondered just that and the result is a wonderful trailer for the single film adaptation that an alternate universe version of Peter Jackson may have directed somewhere in the multiverse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Peter Jackson\u2019s final chapter in the \u2018Middle Earth Saga\u2019, &#8216;The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies&#8217; hitting theatres worldwide next week, I thought it would be fun to create a trailer that promotes his cinematic retelling of \u2018The Hobbit\u2019 as a single epic piece,&#8221; Walden said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jjn3FmTCyL8\">the trailer&#8217;s YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alas. What could have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I speak for a lot of you when I say that Peter Jackson&#8217;s (unfortunately) epic adaptation of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien might have benefitted from some brevity. 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