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peter jackson to direct the hobbit in 3d????

December 1st, 2007

that’s what this site says. my first couple of thoughts:

PJ directing? freakin’ awesome and about damn time.

3D? hmm…..

now i haven’t seen Beowulf in 3D (and i probably won’t because of the changes i’ve heard they made to the story; Beowulf is one of my favorite books), but i know some people that have and they said the effects were pretty amazing. the only complaint i’ve heard is that emotion still doesn’t translate and the eyes of the cgi actors are still lifeless and dead.

that’s my fear of doing The Hobbit (probably my favorite book of all-time) in 3D. i suppose this could be a non-issue if they can achieve the 3D effect without cgi actors, and i truly hope that this is the case. i just can’t imagine Bilbo, Thorin, Gandalf, etc. as lifeless, soulless cgi animation. the one thing that makes me think this will be a non-issue is the article’s mention of Jackson wanting to go back and do the LOTR films in 3D as well. i guess we’ll just have to wait and see how all this pans out.

another interesting note from the article is the mention that there will be two films. presumably, the first film will be The Hobbit and the second film will be a sort of prequel to The Lord of the Rings, speculating on events that took place in the 60 year period between the two. should be interesting, to say the least, but if there’s anyone we can trust to do this right, it’s Peter Jackson.