This looks interesting. If nothing else it feels like they may have made an actual Indiana Jones film.
I’ll be honest and say that I never felt like the second two films lived up to the promise of the first one. Somehow they got bogged down in the cliches of the summer blockbuster (which the franchise helped to invent) and became artifacts of the 80s rather than having that spirit of timeless adventure that the first movie had.
Let’s see if this can bring back the magic.
In case you somehow missed it over the weekend, Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy director director, Guillermo Del Toro, is packing his bags and moving to New Zealand to start work on The Hobbit films.
Record needle scratching noise.
FILMS!?
Del Toro’s moving to New Zealand for the next four years to work with Jackson and his Wingnut and WETA production teams. He’ll direct the two films back to back, with the sequel which will deal with the 60-year period between “The Hobbit” and “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
Yes indeed, there will be two films. While the plot of the first is pretty clearly going to be directly from the book, the second one, so rumors state, will be a semi-original creation cobbled together from the copious material created by Tolkein and his son. Until we get a more official name for this movie, I’m going to refer to it as Hobbit Milk.
Del Toro has proven that he can create strong original fantasy material when given the chance, so I’m hoping that we’ll see something worthwhile come out of this collaboration.
And as we all know, Hobbit milk is always best when fresh from the Baggins.
UPDATE:
There’s some interesting tidbits to be found with Del Toro in this interview on TheOneRIng.net:
Fans are all abuzz about ‘The Second Film’, can you tell some of your plans for it?
GDT: You know, I traveled to New Zealand just a little while ago, and one of the main reasons for going was to sit down and talk about the second film. ‘The Hobbit’, the book, is really one self-contained film, so for the second movie we sat down and worked it out. When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a ‘tag on’, it’s not ‘filler’, it’s an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel like a volume, in the 5 volumes of the entire story. It will not feel like a bridge, I’ve been hearing it called ‘a bridge film’, it’s not, it’s an integral chapter of the story, and I think we’re all on the same page.
There’s no doubt that Shyamalan’s films are beautifully shot, and In terms of ideas I think that he started with a bang when he made The Sixth Sense. There was even something interesting and unique in Unbreakable. But as he keeps playing his gotcha games you have to wonder how many Twilight Zone style stories really work when stretched out to feature length.
As for “The Happening” it feels as if it’s already been abandoned by the studio. I’ve heard more about Shyamalan’s deal to direct Avatar: The Last Airbender than I have about this movie, and it’s coming out in June. I am actually curious to see how he does with licensed material. He has the potential to be a great fantasy director if he’d let go of the twist thing.
Okay, so it’s an April Fools joke. But on a day when most people were complaining about how stupid most of them were, this is actually pretty good on its own merits.
There’s lots of nice in-jokes nestled inside of the sweet candy shell. Yes, it falls apart in parts, but what do you want for nothing?
Back in 1974, when rock and roll had just about hit the high water mark in terms of taking over the world, movie director Brian De Palma unleashed Phantom of the Paradise. A mash-up of Faust, Phantom of the Opera, and Picture of Dorian Gray, it managed to end up being as good as none of its source material, although it has achieved some small amount of cult status. I’m not kidding around when I tell you that this movie is huge in Winnipeg, Canada for some reason…
It does have some kitsch value, if for no other reason than watching Paul Williams act, and seeing just how cool even the most nerdiest nerd can look in the right costume.
Paul WIlliams music is also pretty damn good, although I think that the Rocky Horror has survived the test of time slightly more intact.
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