Comments on: Jackson says he Wont Direct the Hobbit Unless he Has To https://www.themovieblog.com/2010/06/jackson-says-he-wont-direct-the-hobbit-unless-he-has-to/ The Correct Opinion Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: darren j seeley https://www.themovieblog.com/2010/06/jackson-says-he-wont-direct-the-hobbit-unless-he-has-to/#comment-252672 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:05:21 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=27908#comment-252672 THAT”S RIGHT

I forgot all about Sam Raimi…wasn’t he in consideration before?
But where’s he gonna put the Olds? lol

]]> By: Ryan https://www.themovieblog.com/2010/06/jackson-says-he-wont-direct-the-hobbit-unless-he-has-to/#comment-252623 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:59:56 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=27908#comment-252623 Actually, Raimi could do a great job with a movie like this. I’d say that the fun and appeal of Spiderman (or Hercules, or Xena, or any number of his awesomely terrible ‘horror’ films)… the fact that it’s not too serious… is similar in tone to how I think The Hobbit, as a story, should feel. If it’s too serious and too much like the Jackson trilogy of LOTR, it wouldn’t work. Raimi, if anything, could make even more sense than Del Toro.

That said, studios don’t seem to like him very much at this point, so I’m not so sure they’re going to toss a project that will cost $200 million + just to film in his hands.

I’d say the guy who did The Golden Compass could make a decent Hobbit movie, too. The Golden Compass, as a movie, wasn’t that great… but I think it has more to do with the source material than anything else. (Before anyone rants and raves about how great the His Dark Materials trilogy was… it was okay. I just think The Golden Compass was the weakest installment of the trio, and the concept of talking daemons just didn’t work on film). Of course… he was also the guy who did New Moon, for what that’s worth (not much)… but if the studios are looking for a guy who can make a decent, professionally made film that will profit at the theaters… he could fit, if he has the time to do it.

I don’t care very much who they pick, though, because I was never a huge fan of The Hobbit and think it would be a middling movie, at best. If anything, I think that’s the biggest reason why Peter Jackson doesn’t want to direct these movies. He knows they can’t live up to the LOTR trilogy, by any stretch of the imagination.

]]> By: thematticus https://www.themovieblog.com/2010/06/jackson-says-he-wont-direct-the-hobbit-unless-he-has-to/#comment-252613 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:21:05 +0000 http://themovieblog.com/?p=27908#comment-252613 I think you nailed it with Raimi.

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