The Hobbit has a director and a sequel

[Alex]

I haven't read The Hobbit since I last successfully read The Lord of the Rings series (sometime around 1988) so I can't comment on value of the book. My general recollection is I preferred the series. But I don't know how much my memory of the book is being skewed by my memory of the animated movie we had to watch in some English class in high school.

But based on Pan's Labyrinth and the trailer for Hellboy 2 I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that there will be at least one creature with misplaced (creepily) eyeballs. Can't remember if there is already one in the book or if he'll have to add it himself.


If King Kong had been an hour shorter it would have been a fantastic movie (assuming it were edited well of course). There was much to love about it, but the very excesses destroyed the whole. And like Stephen King an no longer facing any real editing of his novels, I don't think that after the success of LotR there is anybody out there that can force Jackson to reign in his worst tendencies so that his very good aspects can shine.

So, he needs to experience a downfall so that he can rediscover those things for himself and come out the other side a better filmmaker for it.