Since they don't have to re-establish Superman like they had to in Returns, this movie should be better. Not that I was disappointed in Returns like a lot of people were.

Tronman90: In the original book, each person's Lastday is their 21st birthday. According to the DVD commentary, the movie makers decided that they had to change it to 30 because it was too difficult to find actors that looked young enough. It will be nice to see the new movie be closer to the book in many ways, including the age of death.

Ok, Peter Jackson aside; I can live with that. Yes, he's great and his Middle-Earth vision can't be duplicated, but with the right director it could pass. The Hobbit wasn't as dark a book as LOTR anyway, and should have a lighter feel.<BR /> The part I am worried about is will this have an effect on the actors and whether or not they'll come on to the project?

When Dark Knight comes out, PSH will sit in his car, bang on the steering wheel and repeat to himself "I'm a fucking idiot. I'm a fucking idiot."

I keep thinking that they 'dulled' down number two by moving all the really good stuff into the last one.

If, from the get-go, it's made to be a movie, I read the novelization second. If it's made to be a book, I watch the movie second.

Well, ain't that the cold, hard truth?

The only cool thing about the hiatus is that we'll get a good cliffhanger.

They are awesome reads. They don't start getting long until the fourth book. You can probably bust out the first two in a week if you read a couple hours a day. Now I have to go read Eragon, since that movie is coming out this Christmas.

I think this is more of Tom Cruise wanting to go out and create a Scientology-friendly studio than it is Paramount trying to ditch him.