It must take a lifetime, or at least it will feel like it, to make THE HOBBIT Movie, geez.. Filmmaking is a tiring, exhausting job.. and I just can’t imagine how Peter Jackson went through the back-to-back stuff he did on Lord of the Rings trilogy and now with director Guillermo Del Toro, they’re going to embark on a long journey to bring another Tolkien’s book to life on the big screen.
bilbohobbit.com has posted a transcript of the recent live online chat and he said that some professionals from his previous gig, Hellboy II will be helping out with this massive, ambitious project and just like Hellboy II, the movie will also have cool creatures..
“many many more and we will be pushing the goblin kindgom. we will be pushing smaug, the spiders of mirkwood. we will be pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and cgi into a seamless new art form in creating creatures, i think.”
“it will begin in 2010 and we will shoot for about 370 days or so…”
370 days of filming,.. damn! I’d go insane within the first two months.
The movie will come in two parts.. although Guillermo Del Toro seemed to insist that he’s treating it like he’s directing one colossal, interconnected movie, fair enough… THE HOBBIT opens December 2011 and the second part opens December 2012.
370 days??
ARE YOU.. like.. KIDDING ME????
that’s a YEAR of shooting!
that’s just crazy….
to be pushed so hard it gotta come out perfect or poor Del Toro is going to kill himself…
Wow…
370 days.
Like Fellini said: “I think that a good day of shooting is when I go home with 1 minute of material”.
hence, double film, 370 minutes, 370 days!
You got it..
the massive scope of this production plus the budget.. they better get it right.. other wise.. like I said.. I’d probably go crazy after the first two months
This is why I have yet to read any Tolkien’s books..cause each of them is hella thick.
Would you put yourself through such large scale project?
I wonder what they do to keep themselves from getting stressed out?
Wow, it better be 370 days of greatness.