The thoughts of a wolfess

Finally, some time for blog-writing again, which there is sadly too little time and will left for these days with all my exams coming up one by one. (And I still haven’t got my hands on the photos from the graduation-celebration and other May-escapades, so a blog about all that just seems like it wold have to wait).

Even though I’ve known about this for some time, I just wanted to drop a line of cheeriness! The Hobbit is FINALLY becoming a movie! And it seems like they’re going to keep the majority of the LOTR cast and crew, like Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Andy Serkis as Gollum, WETA Workshop will do the visual effects, and Peter Jackson will be back, albeit as a producer only. The director will be Guillermo del Toro (don’t shoot me for any misspellings, please ) famous for films like “Pan’s Labyrinth”, which by the way is one of my favourites, “The Devil’s Backbone” and the present “THe Orphanage”. Even though I would like to have seen Peter Jackson direct “the Hobbit” as well, I think there’s nothing to fear with del Toro, either. After seeing the beautiful and well-crafted fantasy-world he presented to the audience in “Pan’s Labyrinth”, there’s nothing to fear, I think. He also has a similiar cinematographic background to Jackson, with quite a few horror/thrillers on his CV.

The film is scheduled to premiere in 2011. I just can’t wait! I’m probably still living in Oslo by then, so this time I’m going to stay in a “geek-queue” if possible, that’s for sure!

On the other hand, there’s just one thing which made me raise my eyebrow. “The Hobbit” is afterall a children’s fantasystory reaching barely 300 pages in large typing. When “The Lord of the RIngs” reach more than a thousand pages and tells a considerably more detailed and intertwined story than LOTR which they put into three separate films, how are they supposed to divide the Hobbit into two films and at the same time keep a dynamic and flowing storyline? Let’s just hope these men do their craftwork as we know the can and don’t fall for the temptation and turn a beautiful story into a watered out fantasy-hype.

I won’t have any fear, though, as long as they make Smaug kick-ass.

Aaaaaargh, 2011 is so far away!