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The Hobbit will now be three films instead of two: [link]
I'm not liking this plan. Principle photography is done. Scripts were finished years ago. The first movie comes out in less than 5 months. I have no idea how they're going to make that happen.
Also, I'm really miffed if I have to wait 3 years for Smaug.
I thought the point was they just finished principal photography and they couldn't edit into two.
Still the same script. Just going to be cut in three instead of in two. Which is actually along the lines of what happened to the original LOTR novels.
But -- no dragon until the third film??!!!
Not good.
I'm more okay with a single massive tome being split up into three slightly less massive tomes, than trying to squeeze three movies out of one book, appendices or not.
I don't know, we'll have to see what happens. I can understand them having enough footage for three movies. I just don't know that they will make for three coherent stories.
I just worry about directorial overreach (see George Lucas, Worchowski's, etc)
I'm okay without three coherent stories, as long as they make one well doled-out story.
I am dreading the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas. The book is one of my favorites and the trailer looks like they have really cheesed it up.
Every ten years, Sight and Sound Magazine publishes their extensive poll of worldwide film directors’ and film critics’ favourite films, boiling each survey down to a pair of “Best” lists.
Vertigo on top! A shocker.
I saw the re-release of Vertigo (after it had been out of circulation for more than 20 years) when I lived in Boston. And in that same week I saw Fanny and Alexander for the first time. Still two of the best movies I've ever seen and a week that completely remade me as a film fan.
I am so happy that Citizen Kane is no longer number one. I hate Citizen Kane. I saw it as a teenager, and I can't even tell you why I hated it, except I thought it was boring. And I loved old movies when I was a kid.