For The Hobbit, yes? He got pretty far in the script treatment but then left the project due to delays and such. He has screenplay credit for all three films.
I hated that sequence in the movie, and it sucks because the barrel escape is my favorite part of the book going back all the way to when I first read it as a kid.
I found an edit called the Spence edit that edits out massive chunks of the second and third movies without feeling that anything significant is missing. My only disappointment is no Beorn.
Didn't his son absolutely dispise all adatations of his books? I had assumed he inherited that attitude from his father.
He was very dissatisfied with the LOTR. I think that influenced is limiting what information could be used in writing the Hobbit films, like no appendices or Similarion.
Del Toro had been signed, sealed and delivered as the writer and director back in 2008. He ultimately abandoned the project a few years later because MGM being broke as a joke resulted in the film continuously being delayed, and he wanted to get back to actually making movies (especially because WB was willing to give him full creative freedom on Pacific Rim). While he maintains screenplay credit, Jackson says that they were forced to mostly drop what Del Toro had written, especially after MGM persuaded him, Walsh and Boyens to make the series a trilogy.
That's kind of unfortunate, as I have a lot of respect for Del Toro's work on some of the films I like. I feel like he knows how to tell effective stories and he understands how to pace them as well, which is very essential. I enjoyed rewatching Pan's Labyrinth the other day and it's still one of my favorite Del Toro movies.
That's why the Blue Wizards could not be named. No other ancillary materials to reveal their names, sadly. Really want more about the Blue Wizards.
According to TheOneRing,net, a site called Fellowship Of The Fans has posted an interesting version of a report that’s been circulating in the last few days. It would probably be wise not to treat it as money in the proverbial bank just yet, though.
So will Shore create leitmotifs, themes, and other structural elements for McCreary to expand upon - a sort of palette of sonic ideas from which to draw? I wonder if that would make McCreary feel he is effectively a subordinate in the creative role? I expect he'd expect equal billing - he's no lightweight in the business of scoring for games and TV, not so much for movies.
Functionally, he is. Shore put in a tremendous amount of effort into the Music of the LOTR movies. He's the expert. Even if Shore wasn't involved, McCreary would be building on Shores work, even if they don't have the rights to the movie score. As long as everyone knows this going in, there should be no bruised egos.
I like both Shore's and McCreary's work so I expect great things from a collaboration of their talents.
. Yes and no. They had the legal right to use material contained in the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings, which did include the appendix, timeline, ect. Why we have any white council at all. They couldn't prevent that, those right had already been purchased. But they absolutely weren't going to approve anything that wasn't part of those rights already. But Similarion, notes, partial created stories, ect all off the table.