Question of the Day, June 3, 2010

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Sonicron said:
Oooh, I know... nobody!

Seriously, why can't anything just remain a book nowadays? I already didn't like LotR, and I certainly don't need this movie.
But...it's the hobbit...
Seriously though, it is a good story, and it is the only way that many people will experience it. Some people don't like to read, and movies are the only way they experience books.
OT: I don't want to see Tim Burton do it. He'd probably cast Johnny Deep as Bilbo
Spielberg or Cameron are the only ones beside Burton that I recognize, and either of them could do a good job. But judging how the production is going, the Hobbit might end up being a jumbled mess.
 

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PurpleLeafRave said:
Anyone other than James Cameron.
He'd probably try and sneak an orc sex scene in there...and their hair will become reproductive organs.
*Shudder*

Oooh! Look at the pretty 3D grass!
I don't remember anything like that in Titanic.

I think Cameron's actually quite appropriate for The Hobbit because it's on the Titanic / Avatar sort of level.
 

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Del Toro and Peter Jackson should still do it.. I mean why not ? It could turn out one hell of a movie ..
lord of the rings + pan's labyrinth
 

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solidstatemind said:
Lynch? No. The Hobbit is a fairly straight-forward adventure story, and wouldn't handle the psychological loading that he would try to force into it.
For much the same reason, this isn't the film on which I'd want to see Chuck Russell (Bless the Child) and Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) work together.

There has to be a story that needs to be that much of a creep-fest, but The Hobbit isn't it. They might do an awesome job of The Fionavar Tapestry, though.
 

Artemus_Cain

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Michael Bay! We can watch the army come in and blow up the dragon with an epic stupid shakey cam cluster bombing!
 

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Call me crazy, but I think Ridley Scott would do a great job of it.
 

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CloggedDonkey said:
Tim Burton, because seeing Gandolf the Emo would have me laughing for about a week.
Tim Burton doesn't make things 'emo'.
Tim Burton directs things in a different way and has a very distinct artistic style - however, it is not emo.
It could be classified as gothic or disturbing, but not emo.
I was just making a joke. The movies he makes aren't necessarily that emo, but walk into a Hot Topic store. What is the first thing you see? That's right, either Jack Skelington or Sally Finklstien (depending on if if it's in a mall, it could also be Edward Cullen). What Burton does is above average movies, sometimes even really good ones, that are slightly dark, which is then taken and made Emo by stores. The movie would probably not be too bad in the remark of how much it cuts itself, but the merchandise, now that's another story.
 

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Terry Gilliam would be an excellent choice with his british humor and nack for creating strange worlds. With Peter Jackson helming it as producer he would have a nice guardrail too. We don't have vary many good fantasy directors left in our generation Most of them have been taken with time.
Also, if he's still around, available, and not insane, and yes I know his last, oh 5 films have been flops (Troy, The Perfect Storm) but freaking WOLFGANG PETERSON should take another stab at fantasy! uh, Wolfgang Peterson directed the Neverending Story by the way. A halmark of fantasy filmaking.
oh, and Ridley Scott, if you could get him and Jackson in the same room without killing each other.
Damn it! The more I look at it, the more its a GIGANTIC shame the Del Toro left. Jackson and Del Toro would have been PERFECT together!
 

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Peter Jackson should do it.
But I wouldn't mind if Spielberg did it, as long as Jackson was over his shoulder the entire time. (I'd say that about anyone who directed it though. If Jackson is there to hold their hand, it hopefully won't be that bad.)
 

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Doesn't matter, they'll end up fucking it the same way they did Lord of The Rings.

Remove a lot of cool stuff, change some awesome stuff into lame stuff, add some really good battle scenes. Tom Bombadil, DAMMIT.

It'll still lose the cool faerie tale feel. I actually kinda like the 1977 Hobbit cartoon movie, while it certainly fucks up when it comes to a lot of details, they still follow the plot fairly closely although not including Beorn is fucking stupid, and same goes for their idea of goblins and elves which don't follow the descriptions at all. But the cartoon still has the faerie tale feel to it, and the songs are pretty awesome. You can find it on Youtube, I think, it's hardly good but it's pretty decent.
 
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Peter Jackson all the way. He did a wonderful job with the LotR series and this is more of the same material! PJ is the man for the job!