Again The Hobbit was the result of the then WB regime running the movie and not Jackson.
Yes, that is inherent to the risk of making a movie, anyone can meddle provided they have the rights to do so. It comes with the territory. Heck Jackson fucked up Lovely Bones. That's why I said the excellent LOTR trilogy was a happy accident. It was easily the best we could have hoped for and there were 5000 ways it could have gone wrong.
Except that regime is long gone. They did it to The Hobbit and all of the DC movies. Jackson wouldn’t be making this if they were involved because they NEARLY KILLED HIM.
They were running PR for a multi-million dollar movie they made.
They both still love the characters. Ian would probably do Gandalf in a wheel chair if he had to and that’s even with the green screen hell from The Hobbit. This movie is much smaller without the 3D filming that had so that won’t be a problem.
Because his friend has wanted to make it for 20 years?
Sorry I'm not listening to anything you say with that Gollum avatar you clearly can't be trusted.
clarky
speculated.
Viggo has said he’d play Aragorn again. So yea just a bit of de aging like Samuel L Jackson in Captain Marvel.Damn good point about the movie timelines. So the casting for Aragorn and Gandalf will be even more interesting ... maybe Viggo and Ian will indeed reprise their roles and there will be deepfakery / de-ageing shenanigans as
And as you pointed out, the story is indeed about Aragorn and the shit he endured during his hunt for Gollum. From memory the hunt leads Aragorn all the way to the Dead Marshes, Minas Morgul (or was it the Morgul vale though it would be cool to actually see inside that city), and within sight of Mordor. Hopefully there's a horror element of this movie. We will probably be seeing Legolas and his dad again too
Watch the behind the scenes shows you why the hobbit was a failure. The guy was handed the reigns after Del Toro left (fired?) and had no planning time to do shit. He pretty much had to make it up as he went.
It's goddamn doing my head in. I'll ask a mod to merge the threads.Competing threads!
Andy Serkis to direct The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Produced by PJ, written by Walsh, and Boyens
https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2024/05/09/117942-andy-serkis-to-make-hunt-for-gollum-movie/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2k_O0gYTSUlHv5ETs7IvNrz9tfQNchrRUS9P1hps_c2mQta9wJMDf7SKk_aem_AcLUYsQvNcrl7CRuNIeEH1odjwF-wxSbnAI--X2wm2PY31QEfx406p74vCWj7h8w4sT2W8IAQJsRGd4-ebIhe44a Peter Jackson has...www.neogaf.com
I'm aware. Perhaps i should have said "they" rather than "him" but point stands.
Some of it was really good. Never saw the last two episodes after the stupid Sauron and not Annatar shit.
Funny enough, the Gollum game takes place between Hobbit and LOTR just like this movie will.
And they are stretching an appendices out to 2 more films. Sound familiar?
They. Can. Not. Make. That.
Andy Serkis didn’t direct that Avi Arad did.
The check cleared.
ManaByte
stated a few times is actually canon and outlined in the LotR appendices. From memory, Aragorn also talks about this harrowing quest during the Council of Elrond as well, and it took a big toll on him. He also mentioned that Gollum stank like shit.
Where you getting that from? Everthing i can find is tales of how great it was to work with Hardy and co.
ManaByte
you have more avatar changes than Taylor Swift changes costumes. lol.
He directed an additional unit on Return of the King.
You keep saying that like it makes him Spielberg or something lol.
Yea you’re right it was a tiny movie.
Ok so you have full faith in him after a couple of so so - to terrible movies and a bit of a gig as a second unit director on his pals movie that probably was part of his contract?
Either you get Peter Jackson making a movie he’s wanted to for a long time or you get WB losing the LOTR rights and someone else remaking the movies on the cheap.
