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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Hobbit:
The "Bridge" film:
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Chen G.
Mithlond
Apr 23 2020, 11:04pm
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was a concept that was brought up numerous times. Obviously, The Hobbit was always on the filmmakers mind to some extent, because it was part of their original pitch and they actually started some early development on it before even touching The Lord of the Rings. The idea of a Bridge film came up later.
During preporduction on The Lord of the Rings, Jackson first brought up the idea of shooting some of the "interstitial" material and possibly adding it into The Lord of the Rings:
One idea I've got (if the trilogy is successful) would be to gather the cast together again and shoot another couple of hours worth of scenes to flesh out The Lord of the Rings as a more complete "Special Edition". In other words, we would write and shoot the Tom Bombadil stuff, or scenes involving Gandalf and Aragorn hunting Gollum, and his capture by Orcs ... and any number of other bits of business that we can't fit https://www.herr-der-ringe-film.de/v3/de/news/tolkienfilme/news_19958.php
Then, in early development of The Hobbit at the tail end of The Lord of the Rings, Jackson and New Line talked about doing one The Hobbit film and one "Lord of the Rings prequel". In late 2006, Jackson spoke about talking about this with Mark Ordesky "several years ago."
https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2006/11/19/24053-peter-jackson-and-fran-walsh-talk-the-hobbit-2/
Then Del Toro mentioned it at some point, but I don't think it ever got beyond abstract discussions. Del Toro very quickly moved from this train of thought to a two-film version of The Hobbit. Knee-points considered were the opening of the Bard's appearance, the Hidden Door or Smaug leaving the mountain: all three of which form a cliffhanger of some sort.
Jackson, once he took over, did originally want to incorporate more of the "interstitial" material into The Battle of the Five Armies, as in the commentary he talks about having considered incorporating Viggo and Liv into the epilogue, etcetra. But he wisely chose against it.
The bridge film isn't a bad idea - it could work to the effect of an intermezzo - but it was easier to string the relevant appendices material where it was concurrent with and pertient to the events of The Hobbit, moreso than the events that take place in the interim of the two works.
That said, that there are gaps between the two trilogies isn't necessarily bad. Even within a single movie, there are often time-jumps during which we the audience miss out on some developments and have to catch up.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on Apr 23 2020, 11:16pm)
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(Mithlond) on Apr 23 2020, 11:09pm
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(Mithlond) on Apr 23 2020, 11:11pm
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