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I don’t want to rub it in, nor do I want to be rabid about it, so I’ll shut up from now until we see a trailer. But this at least deserves mentioning:
First of all, hasn’t anybody noticed that del Toro has repeatedly said he doesn’t like Tolkien, and that he never finished reading “The Lord of the Rings”? Here’s what he told me in Cannes in 2006, when I asked him about the influence of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis on his own work: “I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff.” # (via)
Oh, and Hellboy sucked. Just saying…
In a major step forward on “The Hobbit,†Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct the New Line–MGM tentpole and its sequel. #
Some might call it a ‘step forward’, others, me, might call it a catastrophic choice of biblical proportions.
To see the making of these effects ‘in action’ is truly remarkable. Particularly remarkable is how the 3D ‘modeller’ is controlled, by dials. Pulling together various sources, most prominently from Droidmaker, here’s what I could find on Larry Cuba’s CGI effects for Star Wars.
Coudal has a wonderfully extensive collection of Stanley Kubrick-related links, which was extensively updated yesterday.
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