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Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM.
Squee!
(This seems firmer than the previous reports of "Hey, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro know each other, right?" Of course, everything's on hold until the strike ends...)
Of course, everything's on hold until the strike ends...
They could use the Rankin-Bass script!
Having just rewatched ROTK, it's hard to imagine anyone else bringing me to Middle Earth, but Del Toro is a good choice I suppose.
Watching all the special features and seeing the PJ/New Line love makes me so sad to think of the eventual goings on. It's like watching your two best friends break up in high school. Tragic.
This reminds me of The Simpsons last night. There was one moment that had me rollin'.
It's a "flashback to the '90s" ep and at one point they pan across a college campus chock full of slightly younger versions of the characters and for a second you see Comic Book Guy surrounded by other nerds saying "...and that is why The Lord of The Rings can never be filmed!"
Bwah.
I was intrigued by the doc on JRRT when he was quoted as saying he thought the trilogy was 'unsuitable' for the screen. He's right, of course, the world as he saw it would be impossible to replicate. Still, PJ did a good enough job for me.
Hey ita - we may have talked about this years ago, but did Linda Hamilton study Krav for her role in Terminator 2? The commentary for the DVD talks about her being taught self defense and guns by an Israeli instructor.
Linda also insisted on actually doing a lot of the stuff in the movie. For example, in the scene of her picking the lock, she actually is picking the lock. She also got very good at target shooting.
One weird thing - in the scene in the elevator, she forgot to put her earplugs in before one of the takes. As a result, she suffered permanent hearing loss in one ear as a result of Arnold firing the shotgun near her. But she kept right on with the scene, and that's the take that ended up in the movie.
If she studied krav, it wasn't with our system. Sadly, because we do mention that whatserplasticface in T3 did study with one of our guys.
Do you think her fighting skills in that movie were realistic and practical/effective?
I need to watch it again to be sure. Her physicality was definitely good. And that scene where she pumps the shotgun one-handed may be burnt on my retinas forever. Girlcrush!
And that scene where she pumps the shotgun one-handed may be burnt on my retinas forever. Girlcrush!
Uh-huh.
I hadn't seen it in ages - I was surprised at how well it holds up.