Peter Jackson interview

[vilakins]

Peter Jackson was interviewed tonight on Campbell Live and spoke about The Lovely Bones, which I have no intention of seeing--or reading. I was more interested in his other films.

He talked about The Hobbit and how someone took a copy of script to Ian McKellen, who read it and liked it, and the copy was promptly destroyed (not that the plot is exactly a secret). He said that he'd like to get Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving back to play Galadriel and Elrond.

And then they asked him about The Dam Busters. Filming starts next year and Jackson has ten Lancaster bomber--yes, ten of those big babies--in a warehouse. I'm looking forward to both of these films.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Dambusters...? Ooooh, that may be interesting...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's been planned for years (http://vilakins.livejournal.com/223026.html); I was wondering what was happening. There were even photos of him in a Lancaster. :-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

It's lucky that I reread my comment from three years ago, as I was on the point of saying much the same thing this time. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, I don't know why they're doing so many remakes; most aren't as good as the originals. I have hopes for this one though, seeing it's Jackson.

[bigdamnxenafan.livejournal.com]

So The Hobbit is still in the works? I heard that was no longer going to happen and was greatly disappointed.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I never heard that! He's not directing though, only producing. I hope it was the same look and feel as the other films.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Maybe McKellan's script was the equivalent of the regiment throwing their champagne glasses in the fire after toasting A Lady, so they could never be used for a less honorable purpose ever again?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They said it was for secrecy (though what's so secret about The Hobbit), but yes, that makes more sense. It might have ended up on eBay. "Handled by Ian McKellen's very own fingers!"

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

I found The Lovely Bones on a bookshelf in a pub, and read the first three or four chapters while waiting for friends to show up (they didn't).

I'd liked it a lot, but took a couple of years before I finally borrowed it from the library. Didn't enjoy the rest of it as much. It starts like a mystery story and then became too philosophical and airy-fairy for my tastes, and not really a mystery story at all.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I just don't like the premise.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I know I'm not going to read/see 'The Lovely Bones'. :( There's too much of the subject material in real life. :(

'Dambusters' and 'The Hobbit' on the other hand... squee!1!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

I look forward to seeing how they do Smaug.