If you’re even a minor Tolkien fan, unless you’ve been living under a rock without access to the interweb, you probably know that Peter Jackson is producing and directing not one, but two, movies based on The Hobbit.
The first, titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, will be released next year on December 14, with the second movie, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, coming out a year later.
Ian McKellan will reprise his role as Gandalf the Grey, with some actors returning from The Lord of the Rings movies to their roles including Hugo Weaving (Elrond), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), Ian Holm (old Bilbo), Elijah Wood (Frodo), Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and others.
It seems that Peter Jackson has basically put the band back together and essentially the entire production staff from the LOTR movies is also back on board, so I suspect that The Hobbit movies will look and feel very much like the LOTR movies. Originally, Jackson had planned to be the producer, co-writer and possibly the second unit director, but after the departure of original Guillermo (Hellboy) del Toro, Jackson took the reins again and hopefully will do another clean sweep at the Academy Awards.
After watching the trailer, I am super-psyched for the movie(s) to come out, although I am less psyched about the prospect of having to now buy the Super Platinum Deluxe Collector’s Limited Edition Peter Jackson Signature Everyone-Loves-A-Kiwi-Accent Anniversary Special Blu-Ray Boxed Set that includes not only all five extra-extended editions of the movies, but has 120 hours of behind the scenes footage, documentaries, film of Liv Tyler sleeping and a full set of action figures for the entire Fellowship of the Ring and Thorin Oakenshield’s company of dwarves, plus injection-molded figures of Bilbo and Gandalf with 52 points of articulation and hand-sewn clothing.
The other thing which disappoints me about the trailer is that now I have to wait almost a full year before the (first) movie opens.
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December 22, 2011 at 11:52 pm
Haha.
I want that Collectors set when it comes out.
December 22, 2011 at 11:56 pm
By-the-way, this is the 13th time I’ve watched the trailer now!
Obviously we can’t have that. Thirteen being an unlucky number. So… here we go again.
December 23, 2011 at 2:38 am
13 will not do
I’ve done the dwarf new user tutorial too much
December 23, 2011 at 9:40 am
I am really excited about this and I’m positive the movies will be awesome… but as you’ve alluded to, it already does look and feel a lot like the LOTR movies. I get why, but I was just really hoping for a more distinct style for these movies. I really wish Del Toro worked out.
December 23, 2011 at 9:49 am
Had to get out my copy of The Hobbit and sing along with the Dwarves. My wife was not as impressed as I imagined she would be…
December 23, 2011 at 10:09 am
Its also being shot in 3d I think as well
but I hope there is a bit of humor like the books with the elves singing funny songs and the trolls with Yorkshire accents and the dwarfs singing the song about breaking bilbos dishes and all the hungry dwarfs just turning up at his door
December 23, 2011 at 10:37 am
If you go to Peter Jackson’s Facebook page he’s put up some behind-the-scenes footage of what he’s doing on the hobbit. They’re called “director diaries” I think, and it’s interesting to see how they put the film together.
December 23, 2011 at 9:08 pm
It is awesome that they are making Hobbiton permanent this time so you can actually go and visit it after they are done. I may actually have to travel to the other side of the world!
December 23, 2011 at 12:45 pm
I am less psyched about the prospect of having to now buy the Super Platinum Deluxe Collector’s Limited Edition Peter Jackson Signature Everyone-Loves-A-Kiwi-Accent Anniversary Special Blu-Ray Boxed Set that includes not only all five extra-extended editions of the movies, but has 120 hours of behind the scenes footage, documentaries, film of Liv Tyler sleeping and a full set of action figures for the entire Fellowship of the Ring and Thorin Oakenshield’s company of dwarves, plus injection-molded figures of Bilbo and Gandalf with 52 points of articulation and hand-sewn clothing.
EPIC – though I wasn’t quite sure why Liv Tyler is sleeping in the hobbits. More periods please! Cus I got breathless just reading it.
December 23, 2011 at 3:32 pm
I get Chills every time I watch the trailer…It’s going to be EPIC….Can’t wait!!!!!!
December 23, 2011 at 4:59 pm
OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD! Sorry. I was a bit skeptical at first, after seeing the trailer, I am angry. Angry that an entire year must pass before I can see this movie! I just hope they release the soundtrack sooner, because I want that dwarf song! It would be quite kind of them to release it on iTunes now though. It wouldn’t spoil anything. And it would be so awesome.
Patience? Pah, not a virtue this Champion uses!
December 23, 2011 at 5:38 pm
I also love the dwarve song, but I hardly hope, that the translation into German is as good as the original… cant w8… =(
December 25, 2011 at 2:04 am
48fps 5kP in 3D.. man that’s gonna be sick!