An Unexpected Party
May 16, 2008 · Print This Article
You are invited to an unexpected party next Saturday hosted by Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro who will be your hosts for the evening. Well I suppose that depends on where you live and its for an hour rather than a full evening but you get the picture.
They will be answering 20 of the most asked questions that are submited between now and then plus they will be taking a few questions live via the web chat.
Here’s an excert from the official invitation:
“We ask all fans with an interest in The Hobbit or The Lord Of The Rings to send one question to this website. Ask us anything! Guillermo and I will select and answer the 20 most common questions, so we can both attempt to address the key issues as best we can.”
I like the bit about “fans with an interest!”
The unexpected party is to be hosted at the Weta Holics website where the invitation is now posted. You will need to register to ask your question, attend the party or both. Full details can be found on their site here.
Put your number 1 question in the comments below and we’ll see if the most popular here makes it into the 20 questions at the unexpected party. Do you want to know how Del Toro sees Smaug being developed or do you just want to know who will be doing the voice? Who tops the list for the lead role of Bilbo Baggins or what’s the agenda for the Hobbit part 2?
Tags: Hobbit Movies, an unexpected party, guillermo del toro, peter jackson, the hobbit
I was dissapointed that LOTR was not able to include Tom Bombadil, The Barrow Downs, and the Old Forest.
Will Bjorne be included in the movie ?
Is a plan in the works for the making of “The Silmarillion” and the creation of Middle Earth
from the beginning to tie it all together. This would be a dream come true for all Tolkien fans to have the entire history brought to life on the screen.
Will the second movie use Aragorn as the narrative thread? His travels with and without Gandalf, etc. Or will the focus be on the White Council and Dol Guldur? Or both?
I’ve got two questions; the first one is, will The Hobbit movie has his release in 2010 or 2011? The second question is will viggo mortensen return in one of the two films? Greetz, from The Netherlands
I’m hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the other characters from the LOTR films in the Hobbit. Easiest places would probably be Rivendell or Perhaps the battle at the Lonely Mountain. Any chance that Aragorn, Legolas, etc may be in the backgrounds or scenes as unidentified parts of that story? One way of the other, I Can’t wait!!! Wished I could have made something for one of the characters to have used in LOTR…
Thank you very much for the opportunity to be able to make some questions to you!!
So… my question is: Why do you think it is important to tell this beautiful story?
Hi! Thank you for doing this movie! I am a really big fan! I love it and I know is awesome, but besides that, Why do you want to make this movie?
My question for Jackson and Del Toro would be, do they plan to add characters that were not in the book into the movie. For example, would they plan on adding Legolas, Aragorn, and Elrond considering their age? And if so, how would you incorporate them without changing the book version that much.
Ok this question kind of came up as a random musing at 2 am after a fail attempt to clean my room and viewing the LOTR trilogy. Anyway I had done some research on Glorfindel who is my favorite elf from the books, though he was present in the first or second movie but had a cameo in the third. I found out that a man named Jarl Benzon did stand in work of Legolas which to my eyes went entirely unnoticed. Now your probably reading this and wondering “where the heck is she going with this?” well I had read something on another site saying that Ryan Gosling was a candidate for the part of Thranduil in the Hobbit. Now this part where these to points collide, since Jarl Benzon did stand in for Legolas wouldn’t it be easier to use him for Thranduil instead of bring in an outside person? Now I don’t know how much either of these two fine men know about the Hobbit but to me it just seem more appropriate somehow.
I’m a little worried about the dwarves. Gimili did not look great, and 12 dwarves better look more like dwarves should look. Some of the dwarves although present the entire story are hardly ever mentioned or speak. Will there be 12 dwarves in the movie with undeveloped characters or will they cut down the number of dwarves so they can develop them more. This is a tricky problem that I don’t think anyone has brought up.
Read the next comment! Christopher Lee (saruman) might not be in the second hobbit movie in which he is the leader of the white council!!!
Sorry to rain on the parade, but why is there a need for a second ‘The Hobbit’ movie. Why can’t they just make ‘The Hobbit’ and be done with it? This tag on movie sound like a lot of nonsense merely designed to rip off fans and movie goers alike. Why should I be interested it what is for all intents and purpuses only Jackson and Del Toro’s vision of events that do not contained in any true narrative… Talk about spinning out the cash cow! Next They’ll both presenting ‘The Downfall Of Numemor’ or ‘The Silmarillion’ written according PJ and wife the very untalented and equally bad intrepetor of Tolkiens works - Fran Walsh!
would it be possible to include tom bombadil into the forthcoming movies - because he is a fascinating personality - the only living human being who sees frodo in normal condition when he puts the ring - this would be a fascinating scene and a moment of truth - in a retroperspective! thank you for considering!
An important aspect on the finding of the one ring-while it may have “been a good thing” that Bilbo was meant to find it, it must be considered that the ring was responding to the presense of Gandalf and his ring (one of the Three) in the tunnels, as well as Thorin, who was an heir to one of the Seven.
Also, in the incident with the 3 trolls, it is likely that Gandalf was meeting with Aragorn and the sons of Elrond, hunting in the North Country for enemies, while the dwarves were captured by the 3 trolls.
How close is the Hobbit movie?
What will be the story of the second movie?
Are the goblins in this movie going to be as horrendous as the orcs are in the lord of the rings?
Will the goblins in the movie be as horrendous as the orcs in the other lord of the rings movies?
[because when i read the book, i imagined them as the same personality as orcs, but a little less ugly]
[sorry i'm posting so much]
*disregard third post*
why is there going to be two hobbit movies?
i know its a long book and everything…
why isnt peter jackson directing Hobbit, he has all the equipment to bring it to life and a place in new zealand to put it together?
I’d like to emphasise importance of aspect concerning Peter Jackson’s role as a director. He is the most appropriate person to direct “Hobbit”. Why? Because he has great experiance from “The Lord Of The Rings”, he has also big passion of what he does (he likes and enjoys fantasy in contrary to Guillermo del Toro) and finally he knows Tolkien’s books. I’d like also to ask if there are supposed to be any changes of actors that played in “The Lord Of The Rings”. If yes, who will take the roles?
I agree with the comment above, Peter Jackson has already proved that he can make Tolkien’s books come to life in such a fantastic way. Not that i have anything against Guillermo del Toro but i personally didn’t see anything special with such previously created films he was on board with like ‘Hellboy’, though hopefully he will make me eat my words like alphabetti spaghetti and create another masterpiece like the lotr trilogy.
Personally i cannot wait to see the dwarfs! Gimli was one of my favourite characters in the film and i personally wanted to hear more about him and his kind. But now to see the dwarfs in the lonely mountain and to see them battle! what a treat this will be!
In reply to a post further up where it was commented that the dwarfs didnt look good enough and enough like dwarfs, my opinion could not disagree more with this, i visioned a dwarf in the very way that Jackson had brought to life in the film..bloody good job