HOBBIT movies won't include "bridge" film

This story apparently broke a couple of days ago, but somehow I didn't hear about it until just now. (Why wasn't this bigger news in geekdom?) Speaking with Empire Magazine, Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro have offered some more details on their upcoming pair of Hobbit movies. Previously there had been talk that the first movie would tell most of the story from J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and the second film would serve as a bridge from Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but now the duo say that they're planning to use both movies to tell the story of The Hobbit.



“We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,” says Del Toro.


“We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,” adds Jackson. “The essential brief was to do The Hobbit, and it allows us to make The Hobbit in a little more style, if you like, of the [LOTR] trilogy.”



I'll be very curious to see how this works. The Hobbit really doesn't lend itself to the epic storytelling and (sometimes endless) battle scenes of Jackson's Rings pictures, and the story really doesn't cry out for two whole movies.



(An aside: Clicking on that photo takes you to the Lord of the Rings trilogy set on Blu-Ray, which was actually one of the surprisingly few LOTR products that Amazon still seems to be selling. I found a lot of private sellers on Amazon who were offering various Rings sets, but not many from Amazon itself. The LOTR DVDs haven't started going out of print already, have they?)


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