25 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About The Hobbit. Are you ready to go there and back again?
As we book our tickets for return to Middle-earth – and prepare our terrible Gollum impressions – we rifled through our Dragon-hoarded treasure trove of trivia to bring you a couple of Arkenstones about the history of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s classic novel and its path from page to screen. My precious… 1. An Unexpected Journey “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…” The Hobbit’s story starts in 1928, as a bored JRR Tolkien - marking summer exams – suddenly jotted those opening words down on an empty page of an exam sheet.
An unexpected Journey. ‘The Hobbit’ Is Officially Three Films. There have been rumors and reports that Peter Jackson wanted to go further with his Hobbit films and make them into three flicks.
While The Hobbit novel is relatively short, there is a wealth of other stories Tolkien wrote about Middle Earth; so it should be easy to extend the story. Peter Jackson has gone to Facebook to announce The Hobbit will indeed be three films. Here is Jackson’s post: It is only at the end of a shoot that you finally get the chance to sit down and have a look at the film you have made. Recently Fran, Phil and I did just this when we watched for the first time an early cut of the first movie – and a large chunk of the second.
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Itw. Cast. News. 'The Hobbit' Films Get Release Dates and Titles. New Line Cinema Peter Jackson's two upcoming movies based on J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Hobbit have now been given official names and release dates. The first of the two films, which are currenly being filmed back to back in New Zealand, will be called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey when it arrives in theaters via Warners on Dec. 14, 2012. The sequel, which will follow on Dec. 13, 2013, will be known as The Hobbit: There and Back Again. The two prequels to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy follow the adventures of Bilbo Baggins -- to be played by Martin Freeman, with Ian Holm reprising his role as the elder Bilbo -- in his quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug.
The sprawling cast includes a number of other Rings veterans: Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey; Cate Blanchett as Galadriel; Orlando Bloom as Legolas; Christopher Lee as Saruman; Hugo Weaving as Elrond; Elijah Wood as Frodo; and Andy Serkis as Gollum. First Images and Synopsis from Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT; Plus Production Has Officially Begun. Though the two-film adaptation of J.R.R.
Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit has been fraught with delays and difficulties, Warner Bros. has announced that production has finally started. There were concerns that The Hobbit would leave New Zealand due to a labor strike, but the 3D movies will indeed be shot consecutively against the familiar backdrops from The Lord of the Rings. As a prequel to the award-winning trilogy, The Hobbit takes place in Middle-earth 60 years prior to Frodo receiving The Ring. Instead, the two-part adaptation will follow Frodo’s Uncle Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he is swept up in a quest of his own. Hit the jump for the full press release, synopsis and two production images.