I was just tweeting about that last night. If THE HOBBIT qualifies for three movies, then LORD OF THE RINGS should qualify for at least NINE, since each book is longer than the HOBBIT. But of course a whole lot of what we're probably going to see in the HOBBIT movies will actually come from the appendices of RINGS-- the stuff going on elsewhere while Bilbo was on his quest with the dwarves.
And RETURN OF THE KING isn't the longest of the three--it's the shortest. At least a third of that book is appendices. FELLOWSHIP is the longest. Jackson simply chopped a whole lot of it out of the movie (even the extended edition). If he'd stuck closer to the book--and I'm glad he didn't--the journey to Bree and the Prancing Pony would have lasted another half-hour (including the Barrow Downs and then Tom Bombadil) and the Council of Elrond would have been another 45 minutes. Eeek. I'm fine with this, really. It's not like they're taking the existing movies and chopping them down into smaller bites. Instead they are (apparently) adding a whole new movie's worth of material, and that's all to the good. Shag-- to each his own. I don't like Fantasy much at all, in general, but the RINGS books are among my all-time favorites, and the Fellowship movie remains my all-time #1 film. They're just so much superior to everything else of that type, which again I don't really like. --Van On Monday, July 30, 2012 12:37:44 PM UTC-5, Serv wrote: > > I guess i should be happy he did LotR books before Hobbit in this case. If > the hobbit is a 3 film book, then Fellowship would now be a 3 film book, > the two towers would be a 4 film book and Return of the King woudl be a > whopping 5 movie book. > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I welcome it and thank him for allowing me to give him my $12. I'm >> excited and glad it will be three movies, as long as they are released in >> consecutive years like The Lord of the Rings. >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> Have a Better One, >> Edward Crosby >> http://about.me/edwardcrosby >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Serv <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> https://www.facebook.com/notes/peter-jackson/an-unexpected-journey/10151114596546558 >>> >>> Good ole Pete Jack(pot)son has made the Hobbit into 3 movies now. >>> >>> Thanks to Scott of the St Pete Geeks for the thread...and middle finger >>> to Pete Jacpot for making me shell out an additional $12 for the new third >>> film. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/YPSduyM31BEJ. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/QmfjFZxEOzgJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
