The cast of Peter Jackson‘s two Hobbit films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again, is huge. Like, really, tremendously huge. They actors are all listed at the bottom of the post, but the point is that, after months of shooting, the cast isn’t quite big enough. Jackson has just added the man who will seemingly be the last on the roster: Scottish actor and comedian Billy Connolly. He’ll play Dain Ironfoot, a Dwarf warrior. Read More »
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 by Angie Han
It’s a sad day for comic book fans, as we get updates that suggest two long-gestating adaptations, David Fincher‘s The Goon and Rawson Thurber‘s Elfquest, are no longer happening. Sure, they could get revived somewhere down the line — crazier things have happened — but if I were you, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Hit the jump for updates.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 by David Chen
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So far, most of what we’ve seen from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been more bright and colorful than footage from Peter Jackson‘s previous films in The Lord of the Rings series. The stills and first trailer emphasize that this is a film based on a decidedly more easygoing story than LotR.
More easygoing, yes, but one that still involves trolls, giant spiders and a dragon. In a new still from the film, we get a look at Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) in one of the film’s more down and dirty moments, seemingly just after the unlikely adventurer has made first use of his sword. Read More »
Posted on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by Angie Han
J.R.R. Tolkien fans already got a nice holiday gift earlier this week when the gorgeous first trailer for The Hobbit was released on Tuesday, but Peter Jackson wasn’t done playing Santa. The director took to his Facebook wall a couple of days ago to promise an additional “Christmas treat” to mark the ten-year anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as well as promote the two Hobbit films, and finally revealed his big surprise — the fifth production video from the set of The Hobbit — earlier today. (Which I think technically makes it a Festivus present rather than a Christmas one, but we’ll let that slide.) Watch the video after the jump.
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The internet is full of gold, if only one knows where to look. A college acquaintance who grew up in Moscow once told me of a televised Russian version of The Hobbit that he saw in the ’80s. It sounded crazy, but he barely even remembered the details, and I had next to nothing to search, not to mention that this was in the early days of the internet, when full videos weren’t so easy to find.
But now, with the release of the trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the mid-80s version of The Hobbit is coming up once more. Now it is just a bit easier to find, and you can see it below. Peter Jackson should be worried, because this may just be the definitive version of the tale. Read More »
Ten years ago this week The Fellowship of the Ring was released. Peter Jackson‘s first Tolkien adaption silenced a great many naysayers who said J.R.R. Tolkien‘s novels could never be properly translated to film. It also fostered a mainstream interest in fantasy movies that continues a decade later.
The development of a film based on Tolkien’s original Middle-Earth novel, The Hobbit, was the subject of speculation as soon as Jackson started work on The Lord of the Rings. Actually making the movie was a terrifically complicated process that involved rights deals, the financial solvency of MGM, a long period of development under original director Guillermo del Toro, and the eventual return of Peter Jackson to the director’s chair.
Now the first teaser trailer — a long teaser, at that — has been released for the first of two films based on the novel. Get the first look at footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, after the break. Read More »
What has caught the eye of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman)? It’s like he’s staring over my shoulder at some approaching wonder. It’s probably not footage from the movie in which he stars, and perhaps we’ll find out what he sees when that footage is unveiled. In fact, we’ll see the first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey tonight at 10pm EST / 7pm PST, and I’m very much looking forward to Peter Jackson‘s return to Middle-Earth. While you wait, check out the full image below. Read More »
