{"id":923,"date":"2009-04-18T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2009-04-18T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T19:37:14","slug":"an-aside-news-on-the-hobbit-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/news\/an-aside-news-on-the-hobbit-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | News on The Hobbit movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Empireonline.com has some interesting news<\/a> about the upcoming movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve known for a while that Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro\u2019s eagerly-awaited adaptation of the Lord Of The Rings prequel, The Hobbit, would comprise two movies, due in December 2011 and 2012. But the make-up of those two movies has been up for debate\u2026 until now.<\/p>\n

We spoke exclusively to both Del Toro and Jackson for our birthday issue, and they told us the latest, which is\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,\u201d says Del Toro.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,\u201d adds Jackson. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So there you go. The second film will not, as had previously been suggested, a film that will bridge the 60-year gap between The Hobbit and the start of Fellowship Of The Ring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We’ve known for a long time now that The Hobbit<\/strong> was going to be split up into two movies (hey, movie companies like money, who knew?), but it’s nice to know that they’re switching focus back to The Hobbit<\/strong>. One has to wonder whether two movies isn’t too much to cover the events in The Hobbit<\/strong>, but when one considers how dense the novel is in action (every chapter is, essentially, a short story with its own arc), I trust that Del Toro and Jackson have the integrity and talent to do it justice. <\/p>\n

At least it’s a better alternative to them trying to write an unnecessary sequel about Aragorn trying to hunt down Gollum….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Empireonline.com has some interesting news about the upcoming movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: We\u2019ve known for a while that Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro\u2019s eagerly-awaited adaptation of the Lord Of The Rings prequel, The Hobbit, would comprise two movies, due in December 2011 and 2012. But the make-up of those two movies… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n