Hobbit Movie Not a Lord Of The Rings Remake
Published on: 23rd January, 2009
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The Hobbit will NOT be a Lord of the Rings remake Sir Ian McKellen told writers at the TV Critics Press Tour in Hollywood and rather than simply reprising the role of Gandalf he will instead be reacting to the new material with fresh perspective.
“We’re not remaking the ‘Lord of the Rings,’ we’re going to do ‘The Hobbit’ and what Gandalf has to do in that will be different line by line, scene by scene than the trilogy. All that’s going back is the character. It’s going back to a whole new set of circumstances.”
He also told the conference that he is keeping in touch with Jackson and Co. (so they don’t forget about him) and had plans to dine with Guillermo Del Toro who was also in LA at the moment.
Meanwhile reader Marc Hudgins tipped me off that Del Toro had announced “Hellboy” creator Mike Mignola will soon be joining the team to help with early visualization.
“We are sketching and designing with Weta’s John Howe, and Adam Lee,” del Toro told MTV. “Mike Mignola is coming soon. He’s going to do a stint on the design team.”
He also said that they were at least a third of the way through the design of the creatures and that the script was coming along nicely.
He also let slip that casting of the lead role of Bilbo Baggins was down to 4 names although none of them had been approached and were not aware they had a chance of the part.
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Well, Gandalf just isn’t Gandalf if it isn’t Sir Ian playing the role, not matter how he plays Gandalf, and I would agree that Gandalf from the hobbit is different than the Gandalf from LOTR.
I get excited everytime I get a news post, I so can’t wait for this.
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I agree with that. The Hobbit will be a different movie than LOTR, but some actors and places will remains. I can’t imagine other actor in role of Gandalf, but he can really show us another side of Gandalf’s character.
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I cannot wait for The Hobbit. Let him play a differernt type of Gandalf. He is still Gandalf to me, a smart and funny wizard. Plus, The Hobbit is totally different than LotR so of course he will have to act differently. I cannot wait. Sir Ian McKellen is amazing, I envy him.
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Well, this movie has deeply caught my interest (Saying that I have read the Hobbit 4+ Times, not to mention my love of the Great Book, the Lord of the Rings. And No, it is NOT a Trilogy, it just happens to be broken down that way, it really is just one book, as Tolkien’s son states on the IV Page on the 50th Edition of the Lord of the Rings.) Now that I have that covered, Sir Ian McKellen cannot be a better choice for Gandalf, however I should hope they make him look much younger (Approximately 60 Years). Even though the movie is coming out in, 2011 is it? Anyhow, I cannot imagine any other actor than Sir Ian McKellen put in the role of Gandalf. However, I cannot imagine how they will portray Gollum.
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It is not necessary to make Sir Ian as Gandalf younger, because Gandalf was a Maia, not a human. His apperance as an old man remains the same during the entire Third Age of Middle Earth, exept for his color, which change from grey, to white. I hope, that Gollum in Hobbit will look enough similliar to Gollum In Lord of the Rings, because they made Gollum very convinsed in LOTR.
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@ Magic Carpet
They really don’t need to make Gandalf younger. He’s a maiar spirit and is not subject to aging like the rest of us. He mearly appears as an old man.
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Dang it White, I had not updated my screen for a while before I wrote that. Good idea with keeping Gollum the same, and seeing as Weta and Andy Serkis are in (or so I hear) we should see that creature back in all his great form, just without the Smeagol element. While under the rings control he really didn’t have that duplicity at that time.
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Hello again, sorry, I was forgot Gandalf was a Maia, and I just love this Book so much. However, the movie brought the Shire to life for me, I could not get a full picture of it, but now with the movie to aid me, it fits the description perfectly. I also just love the music in the Shire, it is called “Concerning Hobbits” by Howard Shore, I am sure you will love it. I wish sometimes I could live back then, and that I lived in the Shire, it was like “Heaven on Earth” for Middle Earth. If anyone would like to ramble on with me, and has a love for Middle Earth, contact me at Ryanje95@gmail.com Thanks!
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@ Magic Carpet.
Check out the Forum from this site. There are some really interesting topics going on, much related to the love of Middle Earth and hopes for the movies.
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Thanks Much, Show! I am already checking it out!
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i cant wait no more to watch this movie!!!!
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This will be a nice addition to my LOTR collection and yea im pretty sure they will keep, ghollum and bilbo the same.
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Gandalf said he had been around for “300 lifetimes of men” or something like that.
The time elapsed between Bilbo and Frodo’ stories would be like a day to him - so no visibly appreciable age difference should show.
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THANK YOU Magic Carpet Ride for your point about the Great Book instead of it being a trilogy! Tolkien himself was upset that the publisher wanted the title of the third installment to be “Return of the King.” He claimed that it ruined the ending of the book and I have to agree. Now what I would love to see is a movie about the Lay of Luthien. You couldn’t do the entire Silmirillion or even one book of it, but the Lay would be an excellent story to tell with all of Hollywood targets; romance, action, epic and great special effects. Consider that Lothlorien was supposed to be a pale image of the First Age and this is how Galadriel uses the power of Nenya, one of the elven rings.
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