Fan Rants

Well, actually the script for the first movie is complete, and the second movie is about half way done.

So for those that haven’t been following the news, we should see The Hobbit, prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, on the big screen in the next couple of years. Because there is so much good literature in this book, it is being broken up into two films (I am sure that Hollywood is wanting it to be monitized that way also).

It is being produced by Peter Jackson, same great guy that gave us the LotR trilogy, and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The adaptation of the book is being handled by Jackson, Toro, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. Philippa and Fran co-adapted the LotR trilogy with Jackson for the big screen.

Latino Review reports that:
“At a recent press conference for his new film The Lovely Bones, director Peter Jackson revealed that the script for the first of the two Hobbit films had been finished and handed off to the studio.”

Frankly I am quite excited about these two films coming up after being blown away by the LotR triology. Now if we could only get more source matieral from Tolkien!

Tags: hobbit, lord of the rings, lotr

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