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Viggo Mortensen On Aragorn In 'The Hobbit' And Beyond
5 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
A few months ago, Viggo Mortensen told MTV that he could see his "Lord of the Rings" character, Aragorn, popping up in a film meant to bridge the stories between "The Hobbit" and the "Rings" trilogy. The only problem there is that the bridge chapter is looking increasingly unlikely.
Then again, maybe not. "Hobbit" director Guillermo del Toro may have ruled out the possibility of directing the bridge movie, but that doesn't mean someone else -- even Peter Jackson himself -- can't step in to do it. That's what I find most interesting about Mortensen's words in a recent interview with ComingSoon. It sounds like he's clearer on the franchise plans since we last spoke from him, and still that talk of a bridge film persists....
"My character is around at times--in the middle, but it would only be if they made a second movie or connecting movie that connected »
- Adam Rosenberg
Mortensen uncertain about 'Hobbit' return
11 hours ago | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Viggo Mortensen has said that he is unsure if his Lord Of The Rings character will appear in The Hobbit. Speaking to Coming Soon, the actor revealed that filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are currently concentrating on getting the first of the Hobbit prequels made, which won't feature Mortensen's Aragorn. "I think they're just worried about shooting the first part of that movie which doesn't involve my character," Mortensen said. "My character is around at times - in (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
Viggo talks Hobbit
14 hours ago | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Ever since Peter Jackson announced plans to produce a film version of The Hobbit, constant speculations have been made on whether the original cast, a large part of the Lotr success, would be back. Especially Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, one of (if not The) most popular characters from those films. And to think Stuart Townsend was the original choice... Contrary to John Rhys-Davies, the multi-talented Viggo would indeed reprise his signature role without hesitation. But there has to be a role... »
- Tony Lang
Sr Picks [Video]: X-Men Origins: Magneto Concept Trailer
16 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
One of the many potential X-Men movies pushed into early development after X-Men 3: The Last Stand was an origins solo film for the master of magnetism, Magneto, played of course by the talented sir Ian McKellen in the X-Men trilogy.
I was always skeptical of a Magneto origins film, thinking it wouldn’t be as bankable as many projects touted, but this trailer (using X-men trilogy scenes and Star Trek music) does make it seem pretty epic. That being said, a lot of that awesomeness comes from the music.
Check out this fan-made concept trailer by YouTube user silverlightsaber after the jump.
The only issue here is that it presents Magneto when he’s older and we know the origin film would have to be about him when he’s young, learning his powers, defining his beliefs, working with professor X to start the school, build cerebro, etc. This »
- Rob Keyes
Viggo Mortenson Wants to Return for The Hobbit
19 hours ago | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
It was recently announced that filmmaker Peter Jackson would be returning to middle-earth by producing The Hobbit based on the J. R. R. Tolkien book of the same name. This time around he will be producing only and is giving up his director's chair to Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro. He is however staying on as a writer as Jackson plans to co-write the film with del Toro and the first trilogy's writers, his wife Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. The novel takes place sixty-years before events depicted in the first film and tells the story of how Bilbo Baggins became in possession of the ring from the creature Gollum. It was originally announced that the filmmakers intended to make two films, the first being an adaptation of the novel and the second a film that would bridge the gap between the previous movie and the trilogy. However del »
Ian McKellen on The View: Will He be Back as Dumbledore?
21 hours ago | thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news »
Ian McKellen appeared on The View last week to promote AMC's upcoming mini-series The Prisoner. After a tense exchange about British health care with a typically-uninformed Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Whoopi asked if the actor would be back in Harry Potter. "Maybe if I were Michael Gambon," Sir Ian said. But a chagrined Whoopi later made up for the embarrassing gaffe by asking a cheeky, but long-overdue Lord of the Rings-related question: will we ever see a black hobbit? McKellen also mentioned that he has not yet signed a contract for The Hobbit.
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'The Hobbit' Director Guillermo Del Toro Makes Ian McKellen 'Shiver'
6 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's been over a decade since Ian McKellen donned Gandalf's robes on the set of the first film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Now 10 years later, the British actor is itching to revisit Middle Earth. He recently read the script for the first of "The Hobbit" films, but with no start date for production, the guy is getting a little antsy.
"Gandalf is a fantastic part and I long to do it," McKellen told MTV News, adding that both he and "Lotr" director Peter Jackson prefer the earlier Gandalf the Grey version to his later, post-resurrection incarnation. "He was more humane somehow. He was the guy who liked to hang out with the hobbits and drink too much and smoke too much."
What he didn't always prefer were the 20+ takes Jackson often required on set to get a scene exactly as he wanted. Until McKellen chatted with us, »
- Eric Ditzian
Ian McKellen On 'The Hobbit' Script And The 'Other Tolkien Sources' It Pulls From
6 November 2009 10:59 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
From Movies Blog: Tolkien-ites freaked out over the fate of "The Hobbit" – when's it gonna start shooting? Will the studio's financial implosion affect production? Um, the movies are still happening, right?! – received a much-needed boost last month from Ian McKellen, who revealed he'd actually read the script.
MTV News had a chance to chat with Sir Ian while he was promoting his AMC mini-series, "The Prisoner," and the actor behind Gandalf the Grey revealed some more details—and clarified others—that keep the Tolkien boosts coming.
Continue reading Ian McKellen Says 'The Hobbit' Script Pulls From Other Tolkien Sources over at MoviesBlog.MTV.com. »
- Eric Ditzian
Hobbit Director Talks Dragons and Spiders and More
6 November 2009 3:31 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
In an in-depth interview with Total Film, Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro lays out his vision for The Hobbit in detail and talks about how he plans to take creature design out of the shadow of The Lord of the Rings. In conceiving these creatures, he says he will "keep the DNA in the same gene pool as the Rings trilogy," but with some critical differences.
...in the trilogy most of the creatures are brutish or inarticulate. In The Hobbit, the creatures speak: Smaug has beautiful lines of dialogue; the Great Goblin has beautiful lines of dialogue; many creatures do. So we had to design them with a different approach because you are not just designing things that are scary.
I also wanted some of the monsters in The Hobbit to be majestic.
I wanted the Wargs to have a certain beauty so that you don't have a massively clear »
- Bill Stouffer
Del Toro on Hobbit, Smaug
5 November 2009 6:36 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
We're still a good two years away from being able to dip back into the Shire for The Hobbit, so understandably Guillermo Del Toro is keeping details under lock and key. That way he can try and blow our minds just a few months before on "Hobbit Day" in IMAX theaters. Unless someone tries that beforehand to some level of indifference.*cough* The big guy still likes to talk about his own precious though, so the folks of Total Film managed to get a few tidbits on... »
- Tony Lang
Ian McKellen gives updates on Gandalf and Bilbo in The Hobbit
5 November 2009 5:58 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Ian McKellen says he now has his hands on the screenplay for The Hobbit, to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson.
Sir Ian told Sci-Fi Wire: "As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf [for The Hobbit] because they knew who they were writing him for.
"There are a lot of characters in The Hobbit including, crucially, Bilbo, and they don't know who's going to play Bilbo. So it's extremely attractive that this part has been written for me. The other Gandalf was written for, well, just as Gandalf.
"There's lots for me to enjoy, in all sorts of ways. And I couldn't be happier. But I'm sworn to secrecy. I'm not to say anything at all about the script."
I have to point out here that this is somewhat at odds with McKellen earlier saying he knew who was cast as Bilbo.
McKellen added that del Toro »
- David Bentley
Guillermo Del Toro on bringing to life the creatures and battles of The Hobbit
5 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Director Guillermo del Toro has explained how he intends to bring an original look to the creatures and battles of his two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
The first part of the $300million project comes out in December 2011 and the second a year after that. Peter Jackson is serving as executive producer to help ensure a close match with the Lord of the Rings films.
In a new interview, Del Toro talks in detail about the epic production, which has so far had a year of design work and months of story planning and writing.
He told Total Film: "We are respecting the structure established by Tolkien because the order of the adventures in The Hobbit is well known to generations and generations of kids. You don't want to be moving stuff like that.
"But we will be integrating Gandalf's comings and goings because he does disappear in the book quite often. »
- David Bentley
Guillermo Del Toro Talks about The Hobbit Including His Work on Smaug
5 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Writer-Director-Demigod Guillermo del Toro knows how much to reveal about “The Hobbit” and how much to withhold. He’s been pretty tight-lipped but that’s partially been due to the long pre-production and it’s unwise to release information which will probably shift over the following year. The pre-production for “The Hobbit” will continue as Del Toro doesn’t begin shooting its back-to-back films until late spring 2010 to make a release date of late 2011. However, he did release some details of his work schedule, his relationship with Peter Jackson, and most interesting, the task of designing the big bad of “The Hobbit”, Smaug. Hit the jump for details.
Speaking with Total Film, Del Toro revealed that the process of creating the design for Smaug took over a year. Please not that the pictures I’ve included of Smaug are not from “The Hobbit”. Those pictures aren’t bad but Del Toro blows minds. »
- Matt Goldberg
Exclusive: Ian McKellen Says 'The Hobbit' Script Pulls From Other Tolkien Sources
5 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Tolkien-ites freaked out over the fate of "The Hobbit" – when's it gonna start shooting? Will the studio's financial implosion affect production? Um, the movies are still happening, right?! – received a much-needed boost last month from Ian McKellen, who revealed he'd actually read the script.
MTV News had a chance to chat with Sir Ian while he was promoting his AMC mini-series, "The Prisoner," and the actor behind Gandalf the Grey revealed some more details – and clarified others – that keep the Toklien boosts coming.
Perhaps most intriguingly, McKellen said the script doesn't just draw on one of the Middle Earth author's sources. "They have added material to 'The Hobbit' from other Tolkein sources," he said, declining to elaborate further.
And there's a reason I've been saying "script" and not "scripts." While "Hobbit" will be split into two movies, McKellen has only read the script for one. "It was for one movie, »
- Eric Ditzian
Guillermo Del Toro Speaks About The Hobbit
5 November 2009 7:58 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Total Film recently spoke with filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro about his highly anticipated film The Hobbit, which he's working on new down in New Zealand with Peter Jackson. The interview is rather extensive, but here's an excerpt from the interview where he talks about the creatures of the film.
The way I phrased it to Weta, I said we would keep the DNA in the same gene pool as the Rings trilogy, but that we would generate a different type of character. For example, in the trilogy most of the creatures are brutish or inarticulate.
In The Hobbit, the creatures speak: Smaug has beautiful lines of dialogue; the Great Goblin has beautiful lines of dialogue; many creatures do. So we had to design them with a different approach because you are not just designing things that are scary.
I also wanted some of the monsters in The Hobbit to be majestic. »
Guillermo del Toro Discusses 'Hobbit' Films; Creatures
4 November 2009 9:15 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
A new interview with Guillermo del Toro has been published by Total Film, in which the director talks about developing both The Hobbit and its sequel. It's a lengthy interview, but about half way in del Toro dishes a bit about the creatures that will appear in the film.
Here's a taster, in which de Toro also talks about the dragon Smaug, and how the creature won't necessarily be like the dragons featured in Reign of Fire:
You love creating your creatures and obviously The Hobbit offers some great opportunities. There’s the dragon Smaug, the spiders of Mirkwood, the Wargs, Beorn the bear-man...
The way I phrased it to Weta, I said we would keep the DNA in the same gene pool as the Rings trilogy, but that we would generate a different type of character. For example, in the trilogy most of the creatures are brutish or inarticulate. »
Ian McKellen “couldn’t be happier” with The Hobbit script
4 November 2009 3:11 PM, PST | Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news »
Over the past few months we’ve been following the progress of The Hobbit script rather intensely. We got updates from Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro during the writing process, then Ian McKellen said he would receive his copy of the first draft in September, and now two months on McKellen has read the script. [...] »
- Liam
A-z Movie Reviews – C’s
4 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
To continue my review of my epic journey to watch all my films from A-z, this is the Third part.
For those that don’t know I am watching all 700+ Dvd/Bluray films from A-z which has so far taken me 2+ years to get to the end of G’s!
I thought I should retrospectively review each letter and give my top 5 films from each alpha block and maybe bring your attention to some films you may not have seen, films you’ve not seen in ages or films you should give another try.
Another letter and another bunch of classics I should own and a selection of ones I’m glad to say I don’t own.
A few to mention are Catwoman, Cannonball Run, Cape Fear, Clash of the titans, Cool running’s, City lights, Chinatown, City of God, Cheerleader Ninjas, Cool as Ice, City on Fire and Casablanca. »
- Gary Phillips
Ian McKellen Has Read 'The Hobbit' Scripts But Is 'Sworn To Secrecy,' No Bilbo Yet Though
3 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
When Ian McKellen said that "The Hobbit" scripts would be delivered shortly, he really wasn't kidding. Not only are the screenplays turned in, but the once-and-future Gandalf has read them both.
McKellen spoke with Sci Fi Wire about the scripts, except that the role of Gandalf was particularly tailored to his sensibilities this time around.
"As Peter [Jackson] has said, they loved writing Gandalf [for 'The Hobbit'] because they knew who they were writing for," said the actor. "There are a lot of characters in 'The Hobbit,' including, crucially, Bilbo, and they don't know who's going to play Bilbo. So it's extremely attractive that this part has been written for me. The other Gandalf was written for, well, just as Gandalf. There's lots for me to enjoy, in all sorts of ways. And I couldn't be happier. But I'm sworn to secrecy. I'm not to say anything at all about the script. »
- Josh Wigler
McKellen "Couldn't Be Happier" about The Hobbit Script
3 November 2009 5:02 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Talking to Sci Fi Wire, Ian McKellen (Gandalf) says that he has finally had a chance to read the script for Guillermo del Toro's live-action adaptation of The Hobbit ... and he "couldn't be happier" with it. And why shouldn't he be, since the part was written specifically with him in mind:
As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf [for The Hobbit] because they knew who they were writing him for. ... There are a lot of characters in The Hobbit, including, crucially, Bilbo, and they don't know who's going to play Bilbo. So it's extremely attractive that this part has been written for me. The other Gandalf was written for, well, just as Gandalf. There's lots for me to enjoy, in all sorts of ways. And I couldn't be happier. But I'm sworn to secrecy. I'm not to say anything at all about the script.
McKellen goes on to offer some reassurance »
- Bill Stouffer
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