[url=http://the-hobbit-movie.com/2010/06/19/neill-blomkamp-to-direct-the-hobbit/:75jfglp7]Also read about it from our own ady.[/url:75jfglp7]

It's good to have a rookie at the helm I think, because then they're more inspired to make a name for themself and/or they're more about making a good film rather than making a reptuation, because they don't really have one. I'm really excited!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel the same way, I think he's a really great choice because of his ability and lack of leverage in changing what they have already completed in terms of pre-production. As long as there isn't any shaky camera like in District 9, I'm happy.

Actually GB I can think of one or two places in TH where the shaky cam feel might work. When the party is surprised by goblins in the cave would be one and the bumpy barrel ride being another. Dale as Smaug torches it could be another place for it.
One of my favourite uses of the shaky cam is in RoTK (see I don't think its all bad-just 90% bad) when Gandalf is riding back after leading the sortie to Faramir and the camera swings in behind, bouncing away as if on horseback and we see Minas Tirith home into view. Short but lovely shot.

I agree. It's perfectly acceptable to use "shaky cam" for a first person perspective, even in a Fantasy film, as long as it's not over-used.

[b:1u0agl2a]GB[/b:1u0agl2a]

Errrrrmmmm....NO Blomkamp's NOT directing????


[quote:1440emte]NYMag.com says that Neill Blomkamp will not direct a pair of ’Hobbit’ movies to be produced by Peter Jackson. The online magazine cites an insider at William Morris Endeavor, Blomkamp’s agency, with the info that not only will he not be directing, he was never contacted by Warner Bros. or MGM.

TORn didn’t say Blomkamp would direct, only that a source claimed to have viewed a film breakdown and a lot of the sources info fit with other whispers from other sources. The shortest line between Blomkamp and the film would run though New Zealand and Jackson, not L.A. studios, but NYMag isn’t going to make the report unless its source is solid. Read the whole account right here.

We know Jackson will be in Los Angeles next week and have heard he is there now meeting with studios who are trying to get him to sit in the director’s chair. We have further heard some of his high-placed team is in London working on casting.
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[url:1440emte]http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/06/22/37225-reports-say-blomkamp-will-not-direct-hobbit/[/url:1440emte]

So now, after spreading the rumour and giving it some heft with this headline: "Neill Blomkamp is the ’Hobbit’ director ’ maybe"-- TORn is disingenuously trying weasel out of responsibility for starting the rumour !!!! I guess they think that somehow makes them look more credible if they think they can blame everyone's reading comprehension.

Oh sure, there are plenty of disclaimers in the original article: "Before anybody gets crazy, let me be clear that we are not reporting that Neill Blomkamp is the director of ’The Hobbit’. I am not ready to put my name or TheOneRing’s name on a story that says this is fact.", but this 'Cover Your Ass' statement is followed by: [b:1440emte]"However, we did receive a spy report that stated it as cold, hard, unsurprising fact."[/b:1440emte] in a paragraph that oscillates back and forth between "CYA" and the 'Ring of Truth'. [b:1440emte]And after a lengthy article listing all the reasons why the 'reporter' thinks this rumour is true,[/b:1440emte] he concludes with: "So is Neill Blomkamp going to direct ’The Hobbit’? Could be. [b:1440emte]My personal opinion is that this information is correct."[/b:1440emte]

Way to Have Your Cake and Eat it Too OneRing.

[b:1440emte]GB[/b:1440emte]

I don't think TORn was trying to have their cake and eat it too. The specific reporter who wrote that post thought it was accurate, but they were upfront from the beginning that they couldn't confirm the report. So right now it's the word of TORn's source against the word of NY Mag's source. I'm still (cautiously) hopeful.

EDIT: Call me overly optimistic, but TORn has an established reputation as a generally reliable source, so I'm inclined to believe their report more even though it's also based on an anonymous source.

I think it would be delightful if PJ directed again. To say that PJ couldn't come to a different approach or new attitude to the movie is under-estimating his divine powers displayed through LOTR.

I'm sure that PJ would bring a new style to The Hobbit, but knowing PJ, that's exactly what I'm afraid of. Whether because PJ was still getting used to big-budget movies or because studios wouldn't give him totally free reign yet, PJ was able to keep his over-the-top impulses more or less under control when making LOTR. His restraint started to falter in the later films, however (witness the giant mace and ludicrous face of Gothmog from ROTK), and by the time he made King Kong he devoted close to an hour of the movie's running time to near-constant monster fights.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against action (big battles are a guilty pleasure of mine), but action needs to have an emotional undertone and connection and further the plot in some way. The interminable fight scenes of King Kong's middle section were just action for the sake of action in which the characters did little but get in the way of the childish SFX extravaganza. Watching PJ unleashed (much like George Lucas with the Star Wars prequels once he broke free of the studios but was guaranteed success nonetheless) was so painful for me that I had to stop the film and go back the following day to finish it.

The Hobbit will be, if anything, even more of a guaranteed hit than King Kong since it shares both the franchise and the director/producer/whatever of LOTR. PJ has neither studio pressure nor purist pressure (the only thing that stopped the awful Arwen at Helm's Deep idea that even the film-makers ended up disavowing) to keep him restrained after the massive success of LOTR. That's why I want to see a new director: one who has not lost self-control because of his successes. I hope that having a new director on the project will save it from becoming the mess that King Kong and the Star Wars prequels were.

Yeah, well PJ's King Kong DID have an excellent emotional foundation for the story, the abundant FX worked precisely because of that . I'm with Durin. I'd be perfectly happy for PJ to direct The Hobbit too.

[b:23qtor5t]GB[/b:23qtor5t]