Posts Tagged ‘The Hobbit’

Director/Producer Peter Jackson spoke to the press recently at the London premiere of his newest film The Lovely Bones, where he gave away some new details about two of his other projects, The Hobbit (writing and producing) and the Steven Spielberg directed The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (producing).

The news on both of these films is that Jackson and his writing team have completed the first script of the two-movie hobbit project. Jackson said that he had even more fun than he had anticipated writing the script, and that MGM has stamped it’s sign of approval as well. With Tintin, it appears that filming has completed and Spielberg now enters a two year long period of postproduction (with most of the time being reserved for including the film’s special effects).

Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) will direct The Hobbit, whom Jackson hand picked for the project. The two Hobbit films will release in the Decembers of 2011 and 2012, respectively. Tintin has a tentative release date of December 23, 2011.

Source: ComingSoon.net

Mia Wasikowska as Alice

IGN.com has published a piece detailing a variety of fantasy films that are in the works, from ones that will definitely hit theaters to ones that seem to only have a fleeting chance. It is a very convenient list for anyone trying to keep tabs on the news and rumors of such movies, functioning as a sort of one-stop-shop to note much – if not all – that appears noteworthy.

The list details the latest information on films like Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, and The Hobbit, as well as some lesser known, smaller projects like Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a gothic version of Little Red Riding Hood produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, and a dark, stop-motion animated version of Pinocchio.

Anyone interested in such films should take a look, as the information provided ranges from inducing fervent excitement to cautious optimism. All in all, a very worthwhile article. And don’t worry, there are no spoilers.