Excellent news!!!

[jeffy]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317289,00.html

NEW YORK —  Bilbo lives!

After publicly feuding for more than a year, "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned two-film prequel to the blockbuster trilogy.

The rest in link...

[ECN]

oh

[pissclams]

never seen any of these lord of the rings movies, won't see any of the hobbit ones either.  weird World of Warcraft people like these things.

[fatty fat fat]

never seen any of these lord of the rings movies, won't see any of the hobbit ones either.  weird World of Warcraft people like these things.

I hear that game is fun.

[jeffy]

never seen any of these lord of the rings movies, won't see any of the hobbit ones either.  weird World of Warcraft people like these things.

Never played WoW.

I've read all 4 of Tolkien's books from the series.  It's the only fantasy books I've read.

There are many movies stripped from books and just completely butchered - like Patriot Games, The Lost World, etc.  The LotR trilogy was NOT one of them.  Jackson did a tremendous job translating the story onto the screen.  Of course there are parts that were left out or altered slightly, but not at the expense of the original story.

[ew2x4]

Patriot Games was fairly similar. It just read better. The Godfather was a much better movie than book (One of the few occurances).

[cireksu]

Fellowship was amazingly like the book, the next 2 took more liberties but that trilogy is amazing.  The books were pretty awesome too, and I hate fantasy.

[shaft3500]

the hobbit is a better book imo. hopefully that means a better movie.

never seen any of these lord of the rings movies, won't see any of the hobbit ones either.  weird World of Warcraft people like these things.

totally logical argument, especially from an internet message board junkie.

[The Whale]

Patriot Games was fairly similar. It just read better. The Godfather was a much better movie than book (One of the few occurances).

Did you guys mean The Sum of all Fears?  That was a Tom Clancy book that was butchered when it went to movie form.



This movie coming out -- they realized there were hundreds of millions of dollars still to rake in.

[Brock Landers]

Nerds of the world rejoice!!

 

[jeffy]

Patriot Games was fairly similar. It just read better. The Godfather was a much better movie than book (One of the few occurances).

Other than completely rearranging a few plotlines with some of the characters and destroying the ending, yeah it was close.   

[opcat]

enough already.

That movie shouldn't have won anything.

CGI shi*hole.

[kougar24]

The Hobbit was a much better book than any of the LotR trilogy.

[Skycat]

Meh.

Wake me when they make the Silmarillion movie.

Actually, I couldn't get more than 3 or 4 pages into that thing.

[kougar24]

Meh.

Wake me when they make the Silmarillion movie.

Pointless, considering Silmarillion will just put you back to sleep again.

[shaft3500]

Meh.

Wake me when they make the Silmarillion movie.

Actually, I couldn't get more than 3 or 4 pages into that thing.

 

me too, i use some books to fall asleep, but that one turned me into a narcoleptic.