...And to be perfectly clear, I do understand that the books were originally written as one volume and then sliced up by the publisher, but literature doesn't have to follow the same structural rules that Hollywood movies do in order to work. If you watch the special features on the LotR trilogy, they talk a lot about how much they had to modify the story from the books to work as movies, which is basically my point. It's like building a house, you don't build 2/3 of it and then j...
Personally I'm a bit skeptic about how well this would work out. If Peter Jackson wants to do it then I'm assuming it's doable, but the changes they'd have to make would surely be drastic. I guess they're talking about releasing An Unexpected Journey as planned and then splitting There and Back Again in two? You can't just slice a movie in half, pump in extra footage to increase the run time and then magically call it two movies. When you develop a film, you figure out...
"Really, really don't see the interest in Ant Man"
Normally, and from a mass audience perspective, I would agree with you 100%. The reason there is a push to get Ant Man made is because it's a pet project of Edgar Wright (director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), so I'm pretty interested to see how it will turn out.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope