The Hobbit will be Three Films, not Two

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you got a geek card, give it back.

You know the original meaning of "geek", right?

[Svartalf]

OK, Nerd card then, and go back to biting the heads off chickens

[Gawdzilla Sama]

OK, Nerd card then, and go back to biting the heads off chickens

You google quickly.

[Svartalf]

I knew that already, no need to google.

[Jason]

"An ordinary geek doesn't actually eat snakes, just bites off chunks of 'em, chicken heads and rats." [Arthur H. Lewis, "Carnival," 1970]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Geeks.

[macdoc]

seeing the Hobbit for a repeat on the 3d imax

[Gawdzilla Sama]

seeing the Hobbit for a repeat on the 3d imax

Going for that tomorrow.

[Animavore]

I preferred The Hobbit to any of the Bored of the Rings.

[JimC]

I'm off to see it in a couple of hours...

[Jason]

I'm pondering pirating it.

[Audley Strange]

For his next trick Jackson will be making a series of 12 4 and a half hour long movies based on the "protect and survive" pamphlet .

[Jason]

[Jason]

Was the trilogy Jackson's brain child or did the studio execs press for it? Seems like a cash grab to me so I'm thinking more studio.

[Audley Strange]

Was the trilogy Jackson's brain child or did the studio execs press for it? Seems like a cash grab to me so I'm thinking more studio.

To be fair, he fucking loves the mythology, that's apparent. I suspect from my friends review that they are tying in some other stuff that makes the link with LOTR more apparent than just the Ring and I wonder if he's jamming in some stuff from Silmarillion and the like. I don't know the answer. He wasn't too complimentary about New Line shortly after LOTR, I remember vaguely him saying he'd never make the Hobbit for them, so perhaps he got his way.