Official The Hobbit thread

[Poeman]

I'm also warming up to Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men). He's also a close friend of Guillermo Del Toro I believe.

i thought of him as well..He'd be ideal

 

[Boom]

And from what I can gather on IMDb, he has nothing on his slate at the moment, save for a few "In Development" projects.

 

[Electrix]

He was supposed to film Gravity with Robert Downey Jr. this summer before Downey starts on Sherlock Holmes 2. There hasn't been much news about it so far so it might not be happening this year.

 

[Octoberist]

yeah, he's doing Gravity..hmmm...a WB movie..hmmmm. we'll see.

 

[matrix_ghost]

McKellen is not getting any younger.

It's not like he's that old. Hell Christopher Lee was 78 when he filmed LOTR. Not to mention that McKellen was required to do the close up shots of Gandalf duking it out with a sword in LOTR and his stunt double did the hard work of actually fighting.

AS for Tin Tin , i think they are just waiting to see how Spielberg's movie will perform. Besides considering that they are mo-capping the tin tin movies , they aren't bound by the actors age. It's a CG flick anyway so there is always time to make those movies.
Right now i think Jackson was more involved in making 2 movies. That Napoleon flick with the dragons fighting and another steampunk movie.


Also i think people are waay to fast in saying that Jackson might not have the love for Hobbit and simply direct it in order to protect the investment. Of course he's going to say that because he knows fully well that if Hobbit is delayed for a longer period of time , it;ll mean that millions that were spend are simply going down the drain. His time on HALO has made that clear.
The guy has been so involved with writing the scripts , acting as a producer ....i am willing to say that he has the same passion for Hobbit as he has for LOTR. What people fail to realise is just how taxing this can be be on a person to be working with constant deadlines. Imagine getting 4 hours of sleep for a whole year. But he realises fully well that he will undergo that again or risk million of dollars is loss.

 

[JackMercy]

It's sure beginning to feel like Jackson has the weight of New Zealand's film industry on his shoulders...again.

Nothing really new here, but just evidence that the 'buzz' is building, shall we say...as each small statement from his agent becomes looser and more accommodating of the possibility, word by word...

http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/wil...too-hard-a-hobbit-to-break-for-peter-jackson/

 

[Boom]

Here's something interesting. Moviefone Minute interviewed Michael Regina, Editor and Chief of TheOneRing.net. He had this to say:

The last time I spoke to Peter before Guillermo Del Toro was cast, he asked me about several directors, and who I liked, and you know, I know Alfonso Cuaron was mentioned, and you know, he asked me if I liked the "Harry Potter" that he did and stuff like that. So, I don't know. It's really, really up in the air right now.

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/06/02/37000-moviefone-minute-breaking-hobbit-news/

The more I think about this, the more it makes sense. And hell, with all of the constant delays, he'd probably have Gravity wrapped by the time he'd need to be in New Zealand.

 

[SPIDERMAN117]

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Any comment?

 

[dark_b]

look at what Jackson said and what the same actor said motnhs ago. and now look at the situation.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

David Yates Added To List of Rumored Hobbit Directors

 

[luke1234]

Mehhh,

yates is more of a classical director, meaning he spends most of his time getting performances out of his actors. He's not so much of a creative visionary like Del Toro and Jackson. Thats what the Hobbit needs. Hobbit is doomed though. Doomed I tell ya!

 

[Boom]

Vomit.

 

[Jackasscoley15]

As much as I liked Half-Blood Prince, I just don't think he's right for the material. These movies need to be directed by someone that can make them great, not just decent/good. That's why I'm still steamed that we won't get GDT, he was perfect.

 

[luke1234]

As much as I liked Half-Blood Prince, I just don't think he's right for the material. These movies need to be directed by someone that can make them great, not just decent/good. That's why I'm still steamed that we won't get GDT, he was perfect.

yeah he was, still mourning over his lost

 

[Doctor Jones]

Whoa, Cauron? Never thought of him before. Great choice!

 

[Poeman]

No to Yates...He does not interest me...The film needs a real visionary.

 

[matrix_ghost]

David Yates Added To List of Rumored Hobbit Directors

Good choice IMO.
I think with the Potter films , Yates has proven himself to be a good version of what Brett Ratner should be. Basically get all the material ( scripts , storyboards , cast , crew etc) and then being told by the studio to make a good movie. Hence why i had suggested him for Supes because that will eventually happen there. From a practical point , Yates will be in demand as a studio guy. Both his 2 Potter movies have been very succesful both commercially and critically. And he has proven to handle 2 movies being shot back to back. Something that will also be the case when Hobbit wil start filming.

However if WB is looking at Yates , that will mean that Hobbit will be pushed back to Dec 2013 ( or maybe longer) because the late 2010 shooting start just won't happen. Yates will be doing the post. prod. of the final potter movie AND because it is the final potter movie they need to focus all their attention on that.

 

[nite-owl]

I was watching Graham Norton last night and Bill Bailey said that he auditioned for apart in The Hobbit as Gimli's father.

 

[Rac]

David Yates Added To List of Rumored Hobbit Directors

Ehh...

 

[matrix_ghost]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/two...son-into-helming-the-hobbit-films/#more-46822

Two Studios Trying To Talk Peter Jackson Into Helming 'The Hobbit' Films (Say Yes!)

Here's a glimmer of hope for those die-hard fans of The Lord of the Rings (like me) who hope that Peter Jackson will realize the best director for The Hobbit is the one he sees in the mirror each morning. My sources say that nobody has been offered the helming job -- yet. Instead, Warner Bros and MGM brass are doing all they can to sell Jackson on the seemingly obvious notion that he should complete the franchise he started with three LOTR films that grossed $2.9 billion worldwide. Particularly since he co-wrote the scripts for the two Hobbit movies and already is producing and can shoot both in his backyard. One of the rumored reasons that prompted one-time director Guillermo del Toro's recent exit, I hear, was the prospect of transplanting his family to New Zealand, where Jackson has his visual effects factory and is so comfortable shooting. Warner Bros and MGM braintrust will keep pursuing him until Jackson gives a definitive no.

Other filmmakers are interested in replacing del Toro. Sources tell me David Yates, David Dobkin, and the ubiquitous Brett Ratner are among them. One tricky part of the equation is the deal numbers. So much gross already has been committed on the picture that there isn't much left to give to a top-level director. Sources tell me that gross participants include the JRR Tolkien estate, Jackson, Saul Zaentz and perhaps even Harvey Weinstein, who bargained for a 5% gross stake in the original trilogy. (That happened when Michael Eisner refused to finance two LOTR films, and Weinstein gave Jackson a short turnaround window to shop the property. Jackson made the trilogy deal with Bob Shaye at New Line right before that turnaround window closed.)

 

[dark_b]

noone will ever be good enough for the Hobbit. so complaining will happen no matter what.

 

[luke1234]

I was giving it thought, and now that they are this desperate to find a director why not go with a pixar director. I would say Brad Bird but he's helming MI4 but Andrew Stanton is a very good director. It wouldnt be the first time a animation director transfered over to a fantasy series (Narnia).

 

[matrix_ghost]

I was giving it thought, and now that they are this desperate to find a director why not go with a pixar director. I would say Brad Bird but he's helming MI4 but Andrew Stanton is a very good director. It wouldnt be the first time a animation director transfered over to a fantasy series (Narnia).

Like i said in my earlier post , WB and PJ and co. are probably wanting someone who could just use all the work that is done and start filming.
If Hobbit didn't have a fixed release date , they would probably have more candidates . The last thing they ( WB & PJ) want is that some director ( no matter how talented he/she is) thinks that the script or storyboards or other stuff isn't what they want and then asks for rewrites. Basically that means 2 years of work done by Peter Jackson and Guillermo pretty much goes down the drain.

 

[luke1234]

in that case Fran needs to step up to the plate

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

2012 is already out of contention...and 2013 is going away day by day at this rate. All this replacement director talk is interesting but ultimately irrelevant/pointless. MGM still has zero dollars in their bank account and they've yet to be either bought out by a bigger company (they balked at the lowest offer ironically enough coming from WB a month or so back) or sell off their properties piece by piece.

They can't even put Red Dawn (which is damn-near finished) in theaters no less cut a trailer for it.