WeirdRaptor's Lord of the Rings Adapt. Face-Off:

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #220 on:** November 30, 2010, 08:02:57 PM

UPDATE: For whatever reason, the studios in charge of the production of The Hobbit are making Jackson and company drop the all white casting call. Now the floor is being opened all ethnicities despite Middle-earth being prehistoric Europe. Now if you excuse me, I have to go lie down as the stupidity of this news kills my braincells from the inside out.

Nick22 · **Reply #221 on:** November 30, 2010, 08:09:02 PM

Yeah it is stupid, but i'm guessing we 'll see mostly white cast..

Kor · **Reply #222 on:** November 30, 2010, 09:38:54 PM

Or he'll hire every ethnic type but white. I would in protest if I were him.

Nick22 · **Reply #223 on:** November 30, 2010, 10:12:08 PM

you have to be close to the storyline as possible imo, and having a black hobbit dosen't feel right, as far as i knowe pre-medieveal europe didn't have too many blacks..

Kor · **Reply #224 on:** November 30, 2010, 10:46:09 PM

That is how I'd protest that rule. And the brothers (I think they were) would be 1 asian and 1 black. Then, being jackson when the highups protested I'd tall them shut the () up and let me do this my way or I walk.

I guess some folks are to stupid to realize that middle earth is supposed to be Europe. I'm sure other varieties of humans were in that world, but you'd have to travel a long ways to see them. like you would in say 400bc. Instead of just walking around some american cities and seeing a mix.

Nick22 · **Reply #225 on:** November 30, 2010, 10:59:30 PM

hopefully this will get resolved like that union boycott was..

Kor · **Reply #226 on:** November 30, 2010, 11:39:18 PM

Jackson has enough clout and power, so he may have to use it.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #227 on:** December 01, 2010, 03:40:46 AM

Amen to that. I swear the production for The Hobbit is just cursed. At this point, its like they're bickering just for the sake of it.

Nick22 · **Reply #228 on:** December 02, 2010, 09:16:54 PM

well if they could ever stop bickering, the film would make tons of money.. probably a billion world wide..

Kor · **Reply #229 on:** December 02, 2010, 11:02:09 PM

Very Likely, both of them.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #230 on:** December 02, 2010, 11:21:07 PM

It almost makes one miss the old days when The Hobbit was still just "that film that might get made someday". What's next once this is resolved? An argument over whether Legolas should appear in the Mirkwood sequences resulting in an expansion argument because the studio and actor Orland Bloom?

Nick22 · **Reply #231 on:** December 02, 2010, 11:28:02 PM

Legolas will not appear, besides Bloom has stated that he has no interest in returning to old roles , in other words no Legolas or will Turner.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #232 on:** December 03, 2010, 02:30:21 AM

Wonder how long he'll have to go without a film career before that attitude changes...
Make no mistake, I like Bloom, but I think dropping out of films right after Pirates 3 and for this long is going to bite him in the ass.

Kor · **Reply #233 on:** December 03, 2010, 02:57:20 AM

Likely it may well do that. Many folks have a short attention span.

At worst we still have the animated hobbit movie.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #234 on:** December 03, 2010, 01:29:15 PM

Thankfully, unlike the Bakshi animated LotR, The Hobbit animated movie is quite enjoyable in my opinion, anyway.

Kor · **Reply #235 on:** December 03, 2010, 10:55:07 PM

I think it is a good film also.

Nick22 · **Reply #236 on:** December 03, 2010, 11:39:28 PM

the hobbit animated film was quite good. i think they'll get all the kinks worked out, theres too much money at stake for them not too..

Kor · **Reply #237 on:** December 04, 2010, 12:33:22 AM

I liked it as a kid adn bet I'd still like it now. Different in feel then Jackson's movie I bet, but still a good movie.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #238 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:38:49 PM

Well, it's Rankin-Bass at their best, if that helps.

On a side note, Christmas and Thanksgiving have pretty much made progress on Adaptation Face-Off come to crashing halt (as you porbably figured out on your own), but I will try to continue updates after New Year's.

Nick22 · **Reply #239 on:** December 05, 2010, 12:39:15 AM

thats fine WR...