Dec 18 2007
THE HOBBIT: Coming Soon!
The announcement was made today - New Line Cinema, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will produce the movie version of “The Hobbit”: principal photography to commence in 2009, release 2010.
Another interesting tidbit: the contract is in fact for TWO movies. This caused me no end of consternation, until I dug around on some forums and found someone who claims to know someone in New Line. The word on that is that the two movies will be filmed simultaneously in 2009, LOTR style. The first will be the book proper, the second will be a “connector” movie, which links the events of TH to the beginning of LOTR.
This means it could deal with Gandalf’s absence from the end of TH, The White Council, the attack on Dol Guldur, and perhaps the beginnings of Aragorn’s errancy (his adventures as a soldier of the Rohirrim with Theoden’s father, and serving as a Captain of Gondor) and his courtship of Arwen. It could also feature Aragorn and Gandalf’s tracking of Gollum, and their discovery of what the Ring was.
So much speculation… ah… I missed that run-up to the LOTR release. It is going to be a good two years.
One Response to “THE HOBBIT: Coming Soon!”
I’m somewhat apprehensive regarding the fact that it’s going to be two movies. While I welcome more LoTR glory like the rest of the fanbase, the cynical part of me (aka 90% of me) feels that regardless of what source material they use, it is still just New Line milking a tried and true cash cow just one more time before their contract expires.
But I think that’s a rant for my own blog over @ http://shadowmyth.net/archives/637/