Peter Jackson Buys 30 RED Cameras for The Hobbit

[Pilkingtube]

Its getting to the point were people want such High Definition that it will be better then what your eyes can comprehend, rendering it pointless, expensive, and yet vital to any summer blockbuster...

Eyes don't see in pixels therefore the more the better..no such thing as a upper limit of High Definition.

Well there is a definate limit, we only have so many rod and cone cells in the retina. After which we literally can't see in any more detail.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I'm really starting to get excited for this movie.

Me and my marine bio teacher were talking about it in class today.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

I still don't get how they're going to split a relatively short book like the Hobbit into two movies, while relatively (read: highly) detailed books like Lord of the Rings got compressed into one.

They'll look pretty either way, I guess.

 

[DarkSpectre]

I continue to love PJ. I am so happy he got his hands on Middle Earth. My favorite place ever.

 

[aschere van she]

That's 30 more than I currently own.

 

[thublihnk]

I'm not sure if this is uncouth or against the rules on the Escapist, but I'm a video/film student and I may have gotten an erection at the mention of thirty REDs. THIRTY FREAKING REDS. The things I'd do with ONE RED.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Damn that's slightly ridiculous. I know "Gamer" used the RED cameras but I'm sure this will thrust them into the forefront of movie production.

 

[thublihnk]

Damn that's slightly ridiculous. I know "Gamer" used the RED cameras but I'm sure this will thrust them into the forefront of movie production.

District 9 was shot on RED cameras, along with Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. Kevin Smith's using them, they're becoming a HUGE thing in H-wood.

 

[archaicmalevolence]

That's very nice, Mr. Jackson, but does it have Neal Patrick Harris?

lol you sir deserve a cookie and more if he's in the film

 

[Petromir]

I still don't get how they're going to split a relatively short book like the Hobbit into two movies, while relatively (read: highly) detailed books like Lord of the Rings got compressed into one.

They'll look pretty either way, I guess.

Last I heard they were putting in alot about what Gandalf was doing when he dissapeared (dealing with the necromancer mainly I think.

Of the two major cuts from the Lord of the Rings films Tom Bombidil and the Scourging, the first would have jarred the movie alot, and while a pity is understanble film wise. The Scourging, I have no idea why it was cut, though it feeling abit anticlimatic for a high fantasy epic, and it would have pushed the return to the point were its too long for one movie, but two would require alot of padding, and no real clear cut point to split it.

But basically the reason the hobbits getting 2 movies is they are adding more thans in the book, rather than stripping out bits that would have affected pacing (which are lacking in the hobbit anyway).

 

[Trogdor1138]

I've been wanting to use a RED for ages now and I'm lucky if I can ever get my hands on one of them for a project, now Peter comes along and buys 30 of them xD