Peter Weir would be a good replacement.
Guillermo del Toro exits "The Hobbit"
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I think it's time for Henry Salick (Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline) to make his live-action debut.
I thought Sam Raimi was attached to this the whole time. What happened to that? Fell through too?
He was in talks to direct it at one stage, but that was ages ago. He never actually signed on.
Why would he be ridiculous? I think he'd do an excellent job.
Anyway, I see where this is going -- Jackson himself is going to cry uncle and direct it himself. I also expect to see it reverting back to a single film, which is fine by me because The Hobbit doesn't need to be split up. No book that can be read in a couple days (or even a single sitting, really) warrants two films.
Alex
Speaking of live-action debuts, The Hobbit would be more a more fitting live-action debut for the uber-talented Brad Bird than Mission: Impossible IV.
^^ That might actually be the ideal result. I've always been suspicious of the two-movies thing, especially when they said it'd be two Hobbit movies, not one Hobbit movie and one (read: more human-centric) bridge film. So yeah, I could definitely see PJ wrapping it up in one neat, tidy flick and then being done with it.
Amen.
Alfonso Cuaron would be amazing. He made the best Harry Potter film to date.
I always thought the voice actor for Thranduil in the Rankin-Bass Hobbit sounded just like Arnold.
The current plan was still two films, but the "bridge" film has been eliminated; the novel is simply to be split into two long films.
Re: Del Toro qits "The Hobbit"
There's already a thread on this.
There's already a thread on this.
I'm sorry I didn't see it
No worries.
I have to admit this concerned me when I first heard the story about del Toro leaving the film. But the note that this was an amicable parting is encouraging. Maybe that's being naive, but I'm excited enough at the new movie(s) that I'll rationalize to hold onto the prospect.
^^ Now that we know DH's plot, I think it's perfectly safe to say that Cuaron made the best Potter film full stop.
Hear, hear!!!
I must admit, as big a HP fan as I am, the last film was just kinda "meh" for me.
I saw it once at the cinema and have never had the urge to see it again. But then, the book took me MONTHS to read as well, so I guess the story just never really grabbed me.
POA on the other hand had a gripping mystery, what seemed like a great villain(with a fantastic twist), dementors, time travel done wonderfully, werewolves(pre-dating all this Twilight shit by about five years!)and the kids' acting in the film had matured and they were a joy to watch. Now put Cuaron over the top of all that with a darker sensibility befitting a more mature story and POA was arguably THE BEST HP film, beating the sugary saccharine cutesiness of Columbus' first two outings that were way too literal in their translation from books to screen.
Hell, I fell asleep when going to see the very first HP film!