[Stunaep]

Now that the LOTR Trilogy is out and away, Peter Jackson has mentioned, that if they can clear up the legal difficulties concerning Tolkien's Hobbit, then he would like to make a movie based on that.

Now, I really got goosebumps reading that. I really, really don't want to see that movie made. Because of the following reasons:

1) Bad experience with the prequels of another not-nearly-as-great-as-LOTR-but-still-very-good-epics. I never, ever want to hear people say "Yeah, the LOTR movies were great, but the Hobbit really screwed everything up."

2) The source material is a god-damn childrens book. There is no way, it could match the level of emotional greatness of the Trilogy. Yes it does have big battles, but I don't really care about them. It's the emotional depth that makes a movie, not the amoung of processing power used in its making. Take Matrix Revolutions.

Discuss

[diamondgeezer]

I voted for the Silmarillion

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I voted for the Silmarillion

[01010]

Originally posted by Stunaep
Now that the LOTR Trilogy is out and away, Peter Jackson has mentioned, that if they can clear up the legal difficulties concerning Tolkien's Hobbit, then he would like to make a movie based on that.

Now, I really got goosebumps reading that. I really, really don't want to see that movie made. Because of the following reasons:

1) Bad experience with the prequels of another not-nearly-as-great-as-LOTR-but-still-very-good-epics. I never, ever want to hear people say "Yeah, the LOTR movies were great, but the Hobbit really screwed everything up."

2) The source material is a god-damn childrens book. There is no way, it could match the level of emotional greatness of the Trilogy. Yes it does have big battles, but I don't really care about them. It's the emotional depth that makes a movie, not the amoung of processing power used in its making. Take Matrix Revolutions.

Discuss

I don't think that you could make a film of The Hobbit and have it as a grand epic like LOTR because it's not, even in book form, a grand epic. It's a childrens book with a good story and I personally think that it would make an excellent action/adventure movie in the vein of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and I think it could be quite a fun film in the same way that the book is good fun.

[Fineus]

I vote "pie". Basically, it depends how they portray The Hobbit. It would be a good film but I can't help but feel it might detract from LOTR itself. The Hobbit is a lot easier to get into - it's nowhere near as epic and while the story is certainly a good one - it might well feel like a spin off or cash in alongside the LOTR Trilogy.

I'm really in two minds - on one hand I'd like to see it done. On the other I might have a hard time keeping in mind that it's "separate" from the LOTR films.

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by Stunaep
Take Matrix Revolutions.

[diamondgeezer]

Maybe the Hobbit could be released as an uber TV thingy in several parts, and be shown one Christmas or summat?

[Stunaep]

Like the Star Wars christmas special?

[vyper]

Happy Christmas R2D2.

[diamondgeezer]

[Sandwich]

Hobbit = yes!

Why? Because through his modifications to the lore of the LOTR books, Peter Jackson has shown that he is capable of making the source material work well on the big screen. I trust him to be wise enough to know not to make the Hobbit into something it's not, but to let it develop into something ala Pirates, as Mr. Binary said.

[Setekh]

Once I read the Hobbit, I'll make up my mind. For now, pie.

[aldo_14]

The movie tagline could be "Get back into the hobbit"

I'll get my coat

[Nuclear1]

Pie. Want pie now. PIE!

And frankly, I don't care whether the Hobbit gets done or not.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I think trying to make a movie of the silmarillion is a pretty bad idea. You could make 20 movies with the contents of that book.

The hobbit would make a great movie though.
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[J3Vr6]

Hobbit?  Loved it as a kid.  Always liked watching that cartoon movie when I was in grade school.  Could it be made into a more adult work?  I guess, but then it wouldn't be the hobbit in my eyes.  I've grown up seeing it as a children's novel that I can't really see it get the big surge like the trilogy.

I probably wouldn't see it.

[01010]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I think trying to make a movie of the silmarillion is a pretty bad idea. You could make 20 movies with the contents of that book.

The hobbit would make a great movie though.
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There isn't enough dialogue in the Silmarillion in my opinion for it to be any number of films, it'd have to be heavy narrative all the way through and I don't think it'd work. I wouldn't, personally, like to see them made either, that book is incredible and beautiful in it's scope and ambition and it wouldn't translate to any screen at all well.

[diamondgeezer]

They make movies about the Bible don't they?

Besides which, LOTR, Pratchett's Dsicworld and Gormenghast were all supposed to be un film-able.

[01010]

I'm not saying they couldn't do it, just that I don't think it would translate too well to screen is all. If they did it and did it well then that would be great.

[Raven2001]

Me wants!!! Both Hobbit, and Silmarillion... specialy the last

I think that if well done, PJ could make the Silmarillion in a small amount of movies... For instance, he would make about 2 or 3 about the war between the Elves and Morgoth of course, in a epic episode like LOTR (PJ could base himself in other books, like The Fall of Morgoth or whatever the book is named), about the dialogues, he would have to make them up, of course...
He could also make movies about the smaller episodes of the Silmarillion: Beren and Luthien, Tuor and others... if he was smart, he could make a living of Tolkien movies