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ourdramaqueenSome new Hobbit tidbits courtesy of the MTV Movies Blog:
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/07/hobbit-films-will-be-one-continuous-journey-promises-guillermo-del-toro/
‘Hobbit’ Films Will Be One ‘Continuous Journey,’ Promises Guillermo Del Toro
Published by Shawn Adler on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:12 pm.
What’s better than a second breakfast? For fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, it’s the thought of two separate “Hobbit” films, the first of which comes our way in 2011.
But what could be even better still than two “Hobbit” films? How about just one? Make that one movie in two parts, director Guillermo del Toro insisted in an exclusive interview with MTV News, refusing, like Tolkien himself before him, to fractionalize his overall story into component parts.
“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative,” he said of scriptwriting meetings between “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, his filmmaking team of Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and del Toro himself.
(But how do those scriptwriting sessions work? Find out on Movies Main)
“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”
Intended or not, the methodology ties in nicely with the material, since Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” story, popularized in three separate volumes, was similarly intended to be one large, single volume work.
Practically, the division (or lack thereof) means little in so far as solving the narrative riddles of the second episode. (What will the second episode contain? What characters will return, etc?) Well, except for the very end that is, which will lead right into “The Fellowship of the Ring,” del Toro revealed.
“We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for,” Del Toro said. “You should see a movie that’s five pictures long. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind up watching the entire Pentology!”
And let me be the (second) to say: That would be one heck of a long day.
“But it’s a good day!” Del Toro laughed with my colleague Josh Horowitz. “Better than paying taxes!”
As for the end of the first episode, the movie everyone assumed will follow the events of the novel fairly accurately? Where in the text will it finish?
“We are finding out,” GDT quipped. “I think Smaug dies in the first movie. So draw your own conclusions.”
Think GDT has it all figured out? Where would you end the first film to ensure the greatest narrative impact and most facile bridge to Film Two? The end of the book? Before the Battle of Five Armies? Somewhere else? And could you ever REALLY see yourself watching all five films in one day? Sound off on all your thoughts below.
... and MTV.com - this is the article linked in above blog entry. Also check out the video clip at the link:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1596511/story.jhtml
Oct 7 2008 8:20 PM EDT
Guillermo Del Toro Says 'Hobbit' Script Is Coming Together 'Magically'
'We're all jamming at the same time,' director raves of his collaboration with Peter Jackson and other screenwriters.
By Shawn Adler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
They are two of the most respected filmmakers of this generation, but put Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson in a room together with screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and they act like ... the Beatles, del Toro told MTV News.
"I don't know if I'm Ringo or John or what, but we're all jamming at the same time," del Toro laughed.
All joking aside, if there is anything in the literary world that is on par with the success of the Beatles, it has to be "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," which have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.
So how do the four screenwriters actually sit down to write their upcoming adaptation of "The Hobbit"?
"First thing is, sometimes we get all together in the same space or we all are in video conferencing. And those are sessions that can last two, three days," del Toro said, opening up for the first time about the nuts-and-bolts aspect of the collaboration. "But after that, it's almost like we take turns to a degree — or we each get big, big homework to do and then we come back. And then we exchange that homework and then we have input from that.
"I've done collaborations like that. In 'The Devil's Backbone,' I co-wrote with another two writers in Spain. We did [that] just through e-mail," he continued. "It's complicated if you have a lack of chemistry. But if you have synchronicity, it's great."
(How will the "Hobbit" story be divided between films one and two? Find out on the Movies Blog.)
It's a synchronicity that makes the merry band of pied pipers as tight as, well, Merry and Pippin, del Toro said — each one ready with a timely narrative solution to another's problem.
"Things happen almost magically, with pure synchronicity. It's like, things that I'm thinking about, I get an e-mail ... or I get Philippa, for example, to answer that," del Toro said. "When we're meeting, when the four of us are in the conference, the things that I'm thinking, we answer them."
Del Toro has found the collaboration so helpful, he said, that while he was originally concentrating on film two as Jackson and others concentrated on film one, they are all now working simultaneously on each episode.
It's working so well that the overall script for "The Hobbit" will hopefully be done "by the change of the year," del Toro said. "And then a budget in the very near future."
The first "Hobbit" is due in theaters in 2011.
And regarding LotR cast possibly coming back:
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/10/07/30148-john-rhys-davies-really-thinking-about-the-hobbit/
John Rhys-Davies “really thinking” about ‘The Hobbit’
October 7th, 2008 by deej | Discuss
RingCon, held this past weekend in Bonn, Germany, featured a few ‘LotR’ cast and crew including John Rhys-Davies (Gimli), Mark Ferguson (Gil-galad), Jed Brophy (Sharku), Lori Dungey (Mrs. Bracegirdle), and stunt performer Shane Rangi. Ringer Rosie-with-the-ribbons was nice enough to post a report of the weekend, and noted that during Mr. Rhys-Davies Q&A, the inevitable ‘Hobbit’ question came up. According to the report, “he had spoken with both Peter and Guillermo about a role, and he really was thinking about it. But he wasn’t to sure if he would want to play just one of 13 dwarves, since he was THE dwarf. But if Gimli was in Film 2, he would love to play the part again.” Hmmm…but which of the 13 dwarves could he be referring to? Stay tuned to TheOneRing.net for more information as we get it!
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/07/hobbit-films-will-be-one-continuous-journey-promises-guillermo-del-toro/
‘Hobbit’ Films Will Be One ‘Continuous Journey,’ Promises Guillermo Del Toro
Published by Shawn Adler on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:12 pm.
What’s better than a second breakfast? For fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, it’s the thought of two separate “Hobbit” films, the first of which comes our way in 2011.
But what could be even better still than two “Hobbit” films? How about just one? Make that one movie in two parts, director Guillermo del Toro insisted in an exclusive interview with MTV News, refusing, like Tolkien himself before him, to fractionalize his overall story into component parts.
“The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative,” he said of scriptwriting meetings between “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, his filmmaking team of Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and del Toro himself.
(But how do those scriptwriting sessions work? Find out on Movies Main)
“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”
Intended or not, the methodology ties in nicely with the material, since Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” story, popularized in three separate volumes, was similarly intended to be one large, single volume work.
Practically, the division (or lack thereof) means little in so far as solving the narrative riddles of the second episode. (What will the second episode contain? What characters will return, etc?) Well, except for the very end that is, which will lead right into “The Fellowship of the Ring,” del Toro revealed.
“We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for,” Del Toro said. “You should see a movie that’s five pictures long. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind up watching the entire Pentology!”
And let me be the (second) to say: That would be one heck of a long day.
“But it’s a good day!” Del Toro laughed with my colleague Josh Horowitz. “Better than paying taxes!”
As for the end of the first episode, the movie everyone assumed will follow the events of the novel fairly accurately? Where in the text will it finish?
“We are finding out,” GDT quipped. “I think Smaug dies in the first movie. So draw your own conclusions.”
Think GDT has it all figured out? Where would you end the first film to ensure the greatest narrative impact and most facile bridge to Film Two? The end of the book? Before the Battle of Five Armies? Somewhere else? And could you ever REALLY see yourself watching all five films in one day? Sound off on all your thoughts below.
... and MTV.com - this is the article linked in above blog entry. Also check out the video clip at the link:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1596511/story.jhtml
Oct 7 2008 8:20 PM EDT
Guillermo Del Toro Says 'Hobbit' Script Is Coming Together 'Magically'
'We're all jamming at the same time,' director raves of his collaboration with Peter Jackson and other screenwriters.
By Shawn Adler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
They are two of the most respected filmmakers of this generation, but put Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson in a room together with screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and they act like ... the Beatles, del Toro told MTV News.
"I don't know if I'm Ringo or John or what, but we're all jamming at the same time," del Toro laughed.
All joking aside, if there is anything in the literary world that is on par with the success of the Beatles, it has to be "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," which have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.
So how do the four screenwriters actually sit down to write their upcoming adaptation of "The Hobbit"?
"First thing is, sometimes we get all together in the same space or we all are in video conferencing. And those are sessions that can last two, three days," del Toro said, opening up for the first time about the nuts-and-bolts aspect of the collaboration. "But after that, it's almost like we take turns to a degree — or we each get big, big homework to do and then we come back. And then we exchange that homework and then we have input from that.
"I've done collaborations like that. In 'The Devil's Backbone,' I co-wrote with another two writers in Spain. We did [that] just through e-mail," he continued. "It's complicated if you have a lack of chemistry. But if you have synchronicity, it's great."
(How will the "Hobbit" story be divided between films one and two? Find out on the Movies Blog.)
It's a synchronicity that makes the merry band of pied pipers as tight as, well, Merry and Pippin, del Toro said — each one ready with a timely narrative solution to another's problem.
"Things happen almost magically, with pure synchronicity. It's like, things that I'm thinking about, I get an e-mail ... or I get Philippa, for example, to answer that," del Toro said. "When we're meeting, when the four of us are in the conference, the things that I'm thinking, we answer them."
Del Toro has found the collaboration so helpful, he said, that while he was originally concentrating on film two as Jackson and others concentrated on film one, they are all now working simultaneously on each episode.
It's working so well that the overall script for "The Hobbit" will hopefully be done "by the change of the year," del Toro said. "And then a budget in the very near future."
The first "Hobbit" is due in theaters in 2011.
And regarding LotR cast possibly coming back:
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/10/07/30148-john-rhys-davies-really-thinking-about-the-hobbit/
John Rhys-Davies “really thinking” about ‘The Hobbit’
October 7th, 2008 by deej | Discuss
RingCon, held this past weekend in Bonn, Germany, featured a few ‘LotR’ cast and crew including John Rhys-Davies (Gimli), Mark Ferguson (Gil-galad), Jed Brophy (Sharku), Lori Dungey (Mrs. Bracegirdle), and stunt performer Shane Rangi. Ringer Rosie-with-the-ribbons was nice enough to post a report of the weekend, and noted that during Mr. Rhys-Davies Q&A, the inevitable ‘Hobbit’ question came up. According to the report, “he had spoken with both Peter and Guillermo about a role, and he really was thinking about it. But he wasn’t to sure if he would want to play just one of 13 dwarves, since he was THE dwarf. But if Gimli was in Film 2, he would love to play the part again.” Hmmm…but which of the 13 dwarves could he be referring to? Stay tuned to TheOneRing.net for more information as we get it!
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Date: 2008-10-08 01:24 pm (UTC)I would admit I would be looking for him if someone else plays Gimly, of course, but still.
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