The Hobbit movies

[ThirdandLong]

<--- total nerd.

Please someone else be excited about this with me! I can't wait!
edit: Err... for those that didn't know, they were only going to make 2 movies, but this announcement makes it 3.

movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/extra-story-drawn-upon-hobbit-trilogy-194114585.html

You may be wondering how "The Hobbit" can be stretched into an entire trilogy of films -- a plan director Peter Jackson confirmed on Monday. The film version is based on one book, after all.

But Jackson, who Yahoo! Movies recently saw at Comic-Con, foreshadowed Monday's news as he explained that he is drawing upon source material written by J.R.R. Tolkien -- material that was never published in the original book.

"There [are] other parts of the story we want to tell that we haven't had a chance to tell yet," he said.

Jackson justified the then imminent move to make three films: "We have incredible source material with the appendices. Because 'The Hobbit' is obviously the novel, but then we also have the rights to use 125 pages of additional notes that... expanded the world of 'The Hobbit' that's published at the end of 'Return of the King.'"

Jackson provided further explanation on Monday in a Facebook post, arguing that the extra story material he is drawing upon may forever be kept under wraps if he doesn't use it now: "We know how much of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance."

Indeed, given that Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" franchise made so much money at the box office, all three movies grossing more than $1 billion, Warner Bros. is undoubtedly seeing dollar signs.

Saying that the duo of "Hobbit" films has now turned into three, Jackson added in his post, "It has been an unexpected journey indeed, and in the words of Professor Tolkien himself, 'a tale that grew in the telling.'"

The first installment, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," which is a prequel to "LOTR," lands in theaters December 14.

[sapenguin]

I'm really excited. And it's also cool that he's pulling from the appendices because I could never get into reading them and it will be nice to have some new material (considering I've read The Hobbit and LOTR a few times each)

[niemand88f]

While I think all of the movies will be turn out good, it just sounds utterly ridiculous to make 3 Hobbit movies. They made 1 movie per LotR book, now 3 movies out of 1 book? I think part of the reason LotR was so successful is that it's a familiar story to many people, and so would the Hobbit be. But few people have read the appendices and I'm not sure how well this material will fit with the Hobbit story.

So I'm still side-eying the new trend of splitting nearly every book into multiple movies, but Peter Jackson can probably pull it off well.

[hopecounts]

My DHis going to be so excited about this!
Having read it though I can't imagine how they are going to get 3 good movies out of it.
Though if anyone can pull it off it's Peter
Jackson.

[diceeyes]

This x100.

While I applaud faithfulness to the source material, this move by Jackson and Co. is simply to milk audiences for every penny they can. So not cool.

I'm also just not willing to watch one movie over the next three years.

Jul 31, 2012 9:29:57 GMT -5 niemand88f said:

While I think all of the movies will be turn out good, it just sounds utterly ridiculous to make 3 Hobbit movies. They made 1 movie per LotR book, now 3 movies out of 1 book? I think part of the reason LotR was so successful is that it's a familiar story to many people, and so would the Hobbit be. But few people have read the appendices and I'm not sure how well this material will fit with the Hobbit story.

So I'm still side-eying the new trend of splitting nearly every book into multiple movies, but Peter Jackson can probably pull it off well.

[shorty20]

I'm super excited! The hubs and I watch LOTR all the time, we love them.