squee!
Big News:
1. Ian McKellan = Gandalf in Hobbit film (He and Elrond are the only characters that need the same actors for continuity, but aside from that, Ian McKellan was Gandalf.)
2. Hobbit prequels: the Hobbit, then something or another based on the Hobbit / LoR interim period as suggested in the appendices.
3. Guillermo del Toro (of Pan's Labyrinth fame) for the win! He's directing, now, instead of Jackson. He and Fran Walsh are still sticking around to help out, though. These are both good things, I'm pretty sure. Peter Jackson was a bit obsessed with the stabbity-stab. If del Toro does with the Hobbit what he did with Pan's Labyrinth, we have much to look forward to.
get the dish
p.s. I was talking with someone tonight about the strange places our favorite standard phrases, i.e. 'frog in your throat', come from. Got any good ones? My favorite is cooties: it's what they called head lice in the WWI trenches
1. Ian McKellan = Gandalf in Hobbit film (He and Elrond are the only characters that need the same actors for continuity, but aside from that, Ian McKellan was Gandalf.)
2. Hobbit prequels: the Hobbit, then something or another based on the Hobbit / LoR interim period as suggested in the appendices.
3. Guillermo del Toro (of Pan's Labyrinth fame) for the win! He's directing, now, instead of Jackson. He and Fran Walsh are still sticking around to help out, though. These are both good things, I'm pretty sure. Peter Jackson was a bit obsessed with the stabbity-stab. If del Toro does with the Hobbit what he did with Pan's Labyrinth, we have much to look forward to.
get the dish
p.s. I was talking with someone tonight about the strange places our favorite standard phrases, i.e. 'frog in your throat', come from. Got any good ones? My favorite is cooties: it's what they called head lice in the WWI trenches