A short film. Seems like it'd be a good challenge
So what's that then, only 3 hours long?
Seriously, I didn't even know they'd upped it to three Hobbit movies. It isn't even really enough for two
What should Peter Jackson do next?
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So what's that then, only 3 hours long?
Seriously, I didn't even know they'd upped it to three Hobbit movies. It isn't even really enough for two
Wait, is that official now? That there will be three movies? Last I heard, it was just speculation.
Aaaaaaaand I just went into the thread for the films and saw the link.
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Huh.
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Huh.
I imagine he picked up the rights for the premise more than the prose. There is a good story in there, in spite of Novik's best efforts at times.
Drago-Kazov
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Battletech.
He should adapt some Dan Simmons or Peter F. Hamilton books.
Hyperion, Illium/Ollympos, Nights Dawn, Commonwealth or Void sagas.
Hyperion, Illium/Ollympos, Nights Dawn, Commonwealth or Void sagas.
As a lover of Giant Monster movies and with Pacific Rim coming out next year and Godzilla the year after that (hopefully) I would love for Peter to contact Toho and get the film rights to reboot The War of The Gragantuas. With the art of motion capture I think he could do those giant fighting creatures very well.
It's a dream I have.
It's a dream I have.
PJ should take a lunch break, get on the phone, and bully whoever at WB needs bullying into finally letting Chris Weitz do a director's cut of The Golden Compass, with consultation from himself (let 'em put "Peter Jackson Presents" on the box) for credibility. Finish the effects on deleted scenes to blu-ray quality, quickly and cheaply if necessary, just get it done, damn it! It may never be a great film, but it can probably be as good as Kong. 
Actually, The Golden Compass was a very good movie (the religious overtones dialed down aside). Until it abruptly ended 20 minutes early. I'm all for a proper director's cut with the book's ending restored (I know they filmed the scenes but cut them for the next movie).
A Charles Dickens novel as a trilogy.
Given Dickens' propensity for lots of characters and subplots and Jackson's willingness to adapt a short book into a trilogy it makes sense.
If it was David Copperfield for example:
David Copperfield: Murdstones
Ends with his first meeting with Agnes Wickfield.
David Copperfield II: Rites of Passage
Ends with David's learning of James Steerforth's running away with Emily Peggotty.
David Copperfield III: Heap's Comeuppance
The rest of the novel.
(Little Dorritt would work better as a duology, using the pausing point that Dickens put in it.)
Given Dickens' propensity for lots of characters and subplots and Jackson's willingness to adapt a short book into a trilogy it makes sense.
If it was David Copperfield for example:
David Copperfield: Murdstones
Ends with his first meeting with Agnes Wickfield.
David Copperfield II: Rites of Passage
Ends with David's learning of James Steerforth's running away with Emily Peggotty.
David Copperfield III: Heap's Comeuppance
The rest of the novel.
(Little Dorritt would work better as a duology, using the pausing point that Dickens put in it.)
I'd like to see him try his hand at epic space opera by filming Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy. It's got horror (souls and possession) and fantasy elements so it's in his wheelhouse there, but it's also something new for him. Plus, they're long novels with expansive worldbuilding and lots of supplemental materials, so there's plenty to play around with and to fill in the background.
Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities are already divided into three "books".
Which we've long known there'll never be. And while I agree that it's at least a decent movie taken strictly on its own terms, I can't imagine that adding more character scenes would hurt it, what with the actors being so first-rate.
And then there's dumb stuff here and there, like the (not!) obligatory narrated intro and daemons exploding into Dust, that should be removed.
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He should do a third Lord of the Rings trilogy.
He can combine 3 lines from Appendix C of LOTR with half a chapter from Appendix D.
ITS FROM THE APPENDICES, IT'S NOT A PURE MONEY GRAB! Peter Jackson wants to do it, he'd never do something just for the money!!!!
He can combine 3 lines from Appendix C of LOTR with half a chapter from Appendix D.
ITS FROM THE APPENDICES, IT'S NOT A PURE MONEY GRAB! Peter Jackson wants to do it, he'd never do something just for the money!!!!
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