Movie of "The Hobbit" coming your way in 2012!

[eric_hinkle]

Or so this article says: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36836470/ns/today-entertainment/Read more... )

Comments

[roycalbeck]

Smaug: Cracker? CRACKER?!?!

-XD

[stokerbramwell]

Gilbert Gottfried? Not with Del Toro at the helm. That has to be a rumor.

Last I heard, the top pick for Smaug was Christopher Lee.

[ringtail1592]

It's not a rumor. Del Toro had quit because of all the snags that's been plaguing the film and stalled filming it. I read it in the newspaper Friday.

Jeff Ringtail

[stokerbramwell]

...I've been on the road for a week. I hadn't heard. I...don't even know what to say about that.

[eric_hinkle]

Hasn't there also been some mess about Peter Jackson not getting paid the full amount he was promised for the LOTR movies?

[stryck]

For Smaug, you really need somebody with a booming voice, like James Earl Jones.

[eric_hinkle]

I agree completely. Smaug has to sound utterly majestic.

[dennisthetiger]

Only problem with JEJ is that...well, he's kind of old. I'm thinking somebody along the lines of Vin Diesel at the voice. His is a voice that commands attention and can strike fear in the hearts of men.

[ringtail1592]

I really don't think it's going to be out in 2012, unless they do all the filming within a week.
MGM has had financial problems and has not been able to really get the funds out to start the film. That's what I got from the newspaper. The production has been held up so many times because of financial problems that Del Toro quit. It's been one thing after another.
Even though MsNBC may state that it's on the go, there has been too much problems, as mentioned above, to get the film off the ground. =(
But, of course, sources in newspapers can be both wrong and/or old news.

Jeff Ringtail

[eric_hinkle]

I'd rather it came out a year late then they rush it and make a mess.

[mauser]

Uve Boll? :-)

[eric_hinkle]

Uwe Boll?!? Please tell me you're kidding when you recommend him.