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JBod said:
People are talking like there wasn't 6 books of LOTR.
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There weren't, it was only one book split into smaller, more manageable slices as the publishers at the time felt it was too big in one volume.

You can see a similar scenario today where George RR Martin's books have been split into two for the paper back release (although arguably it's more to do with making more money than with size) despite it only being one book in hardback.
 
I wouldn't call The Hobbit a long book, I read it in Junior school and it took maybe 2 weeks. 3 films is ridiculous, I was slightly excited about this but now I won't be bothering, typical money grabbing movie people.
 
phil675 said:
I wouldn't call The Hobbit a long book, I read it in Junior school and it took maybe 2 weeks. 3 films is ridiculous, I was slightly excited about this but now I won't be bothering, typical money grabbing movie people.
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But it's Peter Jackson that proposed this not the producers :confused:
 
Well one they won't cut as much/rush as much as they had to with LOTR and two it's not just The Hobbit, they're doing the whole of the story, the book is just Bilbo's story.
 
phil675 said:
I wouldn't call The Hobbit a long book, I read it in Junior school and it took maybe 2 weeks. 3 films is ridiculous, I was slightly excited about this but now I won't be bothering, typical money grabbing movie people.
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I bet that you will watch every single one of those films and you'll most likely enjoy them too.
 
3 films for Hobbit seems rather far fetched. There's not enough book to fill that much screen time.

2 would have been perfect, I would have done it thus:

Film 1:
Shire -> Rivendell -> Misty Mountains (Goblins) -> Gollum -> House of Beorn -> Entering Mirkwood

Film 2:
Mirkwood -> Spiders -> Wood-Elves -> Lake Town -> Lonely Mountain -> Smaug -> Battle of Five Armies


Seems they are adding in a lot that isn't in the book, or really relevant to the 'Hobbit' story. e.g. The whole Necromancer storyline. In the book it's just a passing 'Oh we can't go that way, Necromancers you know' and that's it. Has no impact on the storyline at all... so why they feel the need to make stuff up to pad out the movies I don't know...
 
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HeX said:
Seems they are adding in a lot that isn't in the book, or really relevant to the 'Hobbit' story. e.g. The whole Necromancer storyline. In the book it's just a passing 'Oh we can't go that way, Necromancers you know' and that's it. Has no impact on the storyline at all... so why they feel the need to make stuff up to pad out the movies I don't know...
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Because they want it connecting to LOTR. In the end it's all one world and that story was hinted at by Tolkien but never properly fleshed out. It makes sense that they want the two film series to be one 'saga' as it were. I've always been interested in seeing more of the white council stuff.
 
The cinema films could have been 2.5 hours each, they could have thrown in an extra 45 mins per film for the extended edition blu-ray releases... That would have been 6 and a half half hours of footage over 2 films which is more than enough to tell the story.

This is clearly nothing more than a cash grab.
 
I think it's mostly a case of them loving the world and wanting to take the one opportunity they have (likely the only opportunity anyone will have) of going into as much detail as they possibly can on this story.
 
Yeah it's almost certain this is it, they'll never be able to do any parts of the Silmarillion (as the rights are wholly in the hands of the Tolkien estate and they hate the films)
 
avec said:
I bet that you will watch every single one of those films and you'll most likely enjoy them too.
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Yeah after the blu-ray release ^^ I'm not that in to LOTR, find it quite boring but I would watch The Hobbit as cinema is pretty dry lately. Splitting it in to 3 is just ludicrous so I'll wait until I can get hold of a high quality digital copy.
 
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