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I wouldn't put too much stock in thetrailers commercials or the vid at Salon. And I've seen the most recent theatrical trailer numerous times in the theater. Editing can easily distort a film's emphasis. Movie Bilbo may be occassionally sharp tongued, which is within his character. But an...

I was quite happy to have the elves at Helm's Deep. Indeed, I'd have been quite happy to have had more elves in LOTR, and I didn't find the ones that were wimpy in the slightest. The movies weren't about the elves, you know. I could have, however, done without Legolas surfboarding. I...

There's lots of info over at theonering.net if you really want to follow the blow by blows. I'm surprised no one wants to comment about the casting that's been just announced - Martin Freeman, as expected, is Bilbo; Richard Armitage is Thorin Oakenshield. So far so good.

Apparently none of you hangs out at TORN, where GDT himself posted some weeks ago that fans shouldn't take HB2 as any kind of template for the look, style or tone of the upcoming Hobbit projects. PL had photo realism. TH will too. Remember also that he's created all these movies with rather...

Saul Zaentz purchased the rights to LOTR and The Hobbit as Tolkien Enterprises back in the 1960s. NL had to cut a deal with Zaentz to to get the movies made, and it's NL's window that is closing...which is why I think parent TW will be doing everything to get things resolved. No one wants to...

Hooray hooray hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, happy frabjous day! Sometimes things do work out right. A quote from Harry in the Ain't It Cool squib: "When Guillermo and I talked about it, he spoke very heartfelt about how he had to adhere to what Peter had already established - but how he...

ARGH. I hope not Raimi either. Sorry guys. I don't want Raimi's sensibility all over The Hobbit and Middle Earth. Yes, PJ has a love for horror/genre movies, but his genre CV is a far cry from Raimi's straight ahead, competent, but ultimately unsurprising, one dimensional and non-poetic style...

Thank you Patty, that was most enlightening.

Patty and I are old buddies from TORN and I'm with her. I gotta admit I'm feeling no fangirl joy at the moment with Sam Raimi at the helm - apparently we're in the minority there. From a business POV Raimi is a brilliant choice - successful franchise under his belt, experienced with FX and...

Hi John, nice to see a fellow inmate here...(Harmonia at AA) Agree with you 100% about PJ - I was a Jackson fan long before LOTR, and a LOTR fan long before that. How did PJ tap into my imagination? It was thrilling to see ME come to life. The FOTR is one of the most stunning (and...

As the geeks all know, Jackson was working on King Kong before switching to pre-production on LOTR. To put people off the scent, he told collaborators (such as Weta Workshop) that he was preparing the Hobbitt. A few weeks into pre-production the designers learned that they were, in fact, working...