It as been a few years since I read The Hobbit, but I remember most of the key points. So I apologise for any wrong names, or information. So with the first film set to release sometime soon(I believe the end of the year). I am overly excited to see it. I wanted this to be the first film before the LOTR films started filming. But I regress, The Hobbit is looking amazing so far. The ,first if there are more then I am sorry I just haven't seen them yet, trailermakes the film look like it will work even if you haven't seen the LOTR trilogy. The nice opening of Bilbo telling his story to Frodo(Using Wood, and Holm) is going to work great. Then there are the other companionsall 13 of them. Each named and all singing an amazing song. They all look individual and hopefully act independently like in the story.
My big concern is where will the first film decide to end. Will it be once they get to Laketown, or before they enter the Lonely Mountain, or is there a spot I'm missing? They can't cut it when Bilbo gets the ring, that is way to soon, and they can't cut it after the fight in the Lonely Mountain, or when Bilbo escapes the mountain that is too late in the book. I am also concerned of what will make it in and what will be left out, but having seen LOTR and how passionate Peter Jackson is, I doubt I will have much if anything ot complain about with the two films.
When the first film is over all I want to see is the epic 5 army battle at the end of the book getting made into a grand battle on film. I was amazed by the battle in the book and was thinking of what it may look like if it was made into a film. I know there is a cartoon film of the book, but that scared me when I was younger and Golum was creepy in that film. Still I can't wait to see what the films look like, sound, and are created. This may be the best 2 part film that I am the most excited about.
In other film news, Ridly Scott may be making a Blade Runner 2 film. What is still up in the air is if it will be a sequal or a perqual, and if Harrison Ford's character will be a part of either. He is also working in his mind a Prometheus 2 film. The first film has yet to hit theaters. A book that I have read more times then any other book is getting a movie adaptation. That book is Ender's Game. It was a book that I was at one point hoping go made into a film, then that waned, now there is a cast list. Not sure if it is the final list but Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin are in important roles. I hope that the film will not destory a great book that I hold as one of the great science fiction books that I have read so far in my life.