Scots Taffer on 1/6/2010 at 02:48
Well due to the ongoing financial difficulties of MGM, who own parts of the rights to The Hobbit and more distressingly most (if not all) the rights to James Bond, the production of The Hobbit has been beset by delays to the point where Del Toro has simply thrown his hands into the air and quit. Must be a hard thing to do after having sunk two years of his life into the project thus far, including script, preproduction design and storyboarding, etc.
My prediction, if this ever gets off the ground post-MGM settlement, this will be the blow that crippled this would-be prequel twofer. Nothing spells doom for most of these big budget spectacle epic movies like troubled production.
edit: holy fucking necromancy, didn't realise the last post was '08. :o
Fafhrd on 1/6/2010 at 03:38
If this frees Del Toro up to make 'Saturn and the End of Days' and 'Hellboy III' before the end of the decade, then I'm happy.
Mr.Duck on 1/6/2010 at 03:57
Memo, come back to us and make a Mexican movie.....:(
Scots Taffer on 1/6/2010 at 04:10
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
If this frees Del Toro up to make 'Saturn and the End of Days' and 'Hellboy III' before the end of the decade, then I'm happy.
There are people who want more Hellboy?
edit: always amazed when I go back and see Hellboy 1&2 both rated 80%+ on RT, they seemed so average and the first one practically put me to sleep
Fafhrd on 1/6/2010 at 04:19
There probably aren't enough of us to actually get it made, but considering what he had planned for the third (The return of Kroenen and Rasputin! An army of Jack Kirby-esque Nazi robots! Hellboy embracing his role as the Beast of the Apocalypse!), hell yeah I want to see it.
Zygoptera on 1/6/2010 at 04:52
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
My prediction, if this ever gets off the ground post-MGM settlement, this will be the blow that crippled this would-be prequel twofer. Nothing spells doom for most of these big budget spectacle epic movies like troubled production.
Given that Jackson and most of the other LotR people are involved so I'd presume there should be continuity at least. Hopefully rewrites, talent bleed and the rest can be avoided.
Can't say I blame BdT for jumping ship under the circumstances, it's a mammoth commitment to make and you can't put things on hold indefinitely.
Muzman on 1/6/2010 at 06:13
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
If this frees Del Toro up to make 'Saturn and the End of Days' and 'Hellboy III' before the end of the decade, then I'm happy.
Ahem,
At the Mountains of Madness too please.
Fafhrd on 1/6/2010 at 07:15
I figured I could give him until 2020 for AtMoM ;) (and I think it's actually a harder sell to the studios than HBIII, despite Hellboy kind of failing out the gate (B.O. wise) twice previously. The Thing prequel might change that, though)
[edit]My brain is broken and I forgot that it's 2010 already. I think Muz got what I meant, though...
Muzman on 1/6/2010 at 08:25
Oh, this decade, heh. Probably true though. I'm interested in how they'd adapt AtMoM. Not a great deal happens in the book; wander wander, "ooh weird", further wandering, "where'd this ancient city with really big penguins come from?", creep inside, look around, RUN THE FUCK AWAY.
It's probably plenty, but I can't help feeling there needs to be more somehow.
Hellboy has been profitable in a lukewarm sort of way, so I would suppose they'd go with that. Those movies are great. I understand why people don't like them much. There's stuff that just doesn't click and I think DT's structural awkwardness works against big budget adventure films, where it only helps the lyric feel of his other work. Some of the obvious catch phrases and so on in II fall pretty flat as does some jokey capering, in fact there's probably too much (and Kraus' last line is really stupid). But dammit I can watch Red and Blue banter all day long and the fight scenes can be watched over and over again. Real classics there.
