Fan Rants

Variety released word from New Line Cinema this week that the first of the two Hobbit films will be released the fourth quarter of 2012.

JRR Tolkien’s novel is set 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” with Bilbo Baggins as its unassuming hero in an adventure that centers on his acquiring from the evil Gollum the all-powerful ring that figures into “LOTR.” A few “Rings” cast members, such as Andy Serkis and Ian McKellen, will make return appearances in “The Hobbit.”

One delay currently on getting the first one rolling is the script for the second film still pending from Peter Jackson, Del Toro, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. As soon as that is done, New Line will be able to set a budget and begin more thorough casting.

Big thumbs up to New Line for making this happen, all the Lord of the Rings fans are wetting their pants in anticipation.

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!