Official 'The Hobbit' Thread - Part 10

[ravn0s]

he's not up there with gollum, but they did a fine job with the time they had to create him.

 

[redhawk23]

Del Toro's paws are all over that design. Azog looks like a more lithe version of a goblin Hellboy interrogated (and punched into a meat grinder) in the Troll Market. Are they currently shooting Desolation, or did they shoot all 3 at once?

Considering that they edited out the actor that was originally in costume for the role, and the original design was quite different, and that all of this happened a long time after del Toro exited the project, this is doubtful.

 

[Octoberist]

Does anyone have the original actor (with makeup) before he was taken out by the CG version?

 

[Victarion]

Considering that they edited out the actor that was originally in costume for the role, and the original design was quite different, and that all of this happened a long time after del Toro exited the project, this is doubtful.

You're talking about Bolg? I thought he was in one of the upcoming films.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

As expected, The Hobbit: There & Back Again moving to Christmas 2014.

 

[jmc]

I'm not at all surprised by this.

 

[CoolCadaver49]

Wait, I thought it already was coming out then?

 

[Liam_H]

^It is, just 5 months later.

Not surprised by this at all. But will WB have to take its spot in July. So far they have nothing scheduled for June or July. Its might be a rough summer for WB if Godzilla is their biggest movie.

 

[Brain Damage]

^It is, just 5 months later.

Not surprised by this at all. But will WB have to take its spot in July. So far they have nothing scheduled for June or July. Its might be a rough summer for WB if Godzilla is their biggest movie.

Edit: got my years confused.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Possibly a MOS sequel?

 

[Liam_H]

So if MOS is a huge hit. They're gonna fast track a sequel in one year?

 

[Tacit Ronin]

So if MOS is a huge hit. They're gonna fast track a sequel in one year?

Snyder is just that damn good.

 

[Symbiotic]

Seriously, man? Hobbit and X-Men play chicken and Hobbit's the one that flinches?

 

[Liam_H]

Well consider the OCDness in all of us and its a win.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Seriously, man? Hobbit and X-Men play chicken and Hobbit's the one that flinches?

The Hobbit was never going to stay in July.

 

[Symbiotic]

The Hobbit was never going to stay in July.

I knew they wouldn't both stay on that date, but I just figured X-Men would go.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

No way, bud.

Those movies belong in Christmas. Always felt like WB was placing it for something else to take over. Like Nolan's Interstellar or Transcendence.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Seriously, man? Hobbit and X-Men play chicken and Hobbit's the one that flinches?

I think Hobbit is more comfortable and quite willing to play chicken with anything (even Avatar 2) provided it's in its own turf/date.

 

[Marvolo]

You're talking about Bolg? I thought he was in one of the upcoming films.

Del Toro's paws are all over that design. Azog looks like a more lithe version of a goblin Hellboy interrogated (and punched into a meat grinder) in the Troll Market. Are they currently shooting Desolation, or did they shoot all 3 at once?

According to Jackson, Del Toro's work was scrapped.

[Guillermo] had designed a lot of the movie . . . I looked at his designs when he took over and a lot of his designs are very Guillermo . . . it was very much stuff that you would recognize from Pan's Labyrinth or Hellboy. It was his artistic vision and I couldn't make that movie. I looked at his designs and I said the only person who can make a Guillermo Del Toro movie is Guillermo. It shouldn't be me. I can't put my head into somebody else's idea — I have to generate it from the beginning. So really I redesigned the film pretty much. Some of Guillermo's DNA is in there — there were some things he did that I thought were pretty cool and I've taken bits of pieces of his stuff — kind of altering it and changing it as I saw it. But the film was largely redesigned.

http://io9.com/5937177/peter-jackson-tells-us-how-much-of-guillermo-del-toros-design-dna-is-in-the-hobbit

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I wonder when we get a trailer.

 

[Marvolo]

I wonder when we get a trailer.

March 24

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Hobbit-Desolation-Smaug-Reveal-First-Footage-March-Livestream-Event-35551.html

When FOTR was late in its theatrical run they tacked a trailer for TTT onto the credits and it was 3 minutes. Here is hoping this is 3 minutes as well.

 

[mclay18]

So if MOS is a huge hit. They're gonna fast track a sequel in one year?

Hey, they did it for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, all the Hunger Games films and the Twilight series... but that means they have to get a script together and start shooting by the time MOS opens, which is three months away.

I know some films blazed through production, like X-Men: First Class did... but that July 2014 spot will either go to Godzilla or Nolan's Interstellar.

 

[Liam_H]

I wouldn't really put any of the three in the same situation especially not the latter two.

 

[Marvolo]

Hey, they did it for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, all the Hunger Games films and the Twilight series... but that means they have to get a script together and start shooting by the time MOS opens, which is three months away.

I know some films blazed through production, like X-Men: First Class did... but that July 2014 spot will either go to Godzilla or Nolan's Interstellar.

Chamber of Secrets wasn't fast tracked. It was always planned for the next year. As was POA, but due to Richard Harris's death POA was forced back 7 months. From the beginning they were hoping to have one out every year, but they soon realized they would die of exhaustion trying to do that. When Richard Harris passed they took time off, and Heyman and Cuaron set out to find a new dumbledore.

 

[Liam_H]

Well child labor laws, I'd have to assume some form of it exists in Europe.