The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Release Date: December ?, 2013 Director: Peter Jackson
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Bilbo Baggins- Martin Freeman Gandalf- Sir Ian McKellen Thorin Oakenshield- Richard Armitage Elrond- Hugo Weaving Bard the Bowman- Luke Evans King Thranduil- Lee Pace Dain Ironfoot- Billy Connolly Beorn- Mikael Persbrandt Balin- Ken Stott
Master of Laketown- Stephen Fry Tauriel (female elf)- Evangeline Lilly Radagast- Sylvester McCoy Smaug/ The Necromancer- Benedict Cumberbatch
For other Tolkien lovers out there. Corey Olsen is a university professor (Medieval literature) that has been releasing his lectures on Tolkien's works as free podcasts and also has created a couple podcast series specifically for the internet.
Release Date: December 14, 2012 Director: Peter Jackson
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Brief glimpse of Smaug
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Hobbit News
Jan 2, 2013 The Hobbit #1 film at the Box Office three weekends in a row Domestic Gross: $242M Foreign Gross: $464M Worldwide: $706M
Dec 16, 2012 New Line and MGM's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey kicked off the holiday season in high style, opening to $84.8 million, the top three-day opening of all time for the month of December.
The first in Peter Jackson's planned trilogy, Hobbit opened to $138.2 million overseas for a worldwide total of $223 million. The movie came in ahead The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003 ($125.9 million).
Dec 14, 2012 Midnight Showing: $13M @ 3100 locations
Sept 2, 2012 Trilogy Titles Released The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey December 14, 2012 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug December 13, 2013 The Hobbit: There and Back Again July 18, 2014 http://www.thehobbitblog.com/
I am now skipping this. Don't get me wrong, I respect Peter Jackson for what he did for LOTR, but stretching The Hobbit into 3 films, even if you include the appendices from ROTK, is really pushing it, and just reeks of greed. If you've got a lot of unused footage, why not just do what you did for LOTR and release extended versions later on? I just wanted Bilbo's story told, but it seems like Jackson is intent on making this a fully-fledged prequel. In the words of the old hobbit himself, "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta.
Trilogy? Uh.....wow. Well, I am going to have to reread this. Somehow I feel like at least one of those 3 is going to be pretty boring. It isn't even a long book : /
BloodNinja United States. July 31 2012 05:01. Posts 2303
On July 31 2012 04:55 GwSC wrote: Trilogy? Uh.....wow. Somehow I feel like at least one of those 3 is going to be pretty boring. It isn't even a long book : /
This pretty much nails my feelings. I just have a hard time believing there is enough material to make 3 solid movies out of. I can see this easily going the way the Matrix did in my opinion, with the 1st film being great and then the next having the next two movies be a clear step down (with the 2nd one being massively disappointing to me).
JimSocks United States. July 31 2012 05:01. Posts 879
maybe 2 movies, cut it in half after he meets gollum. but i don't think 3 movies is warranted. they can just do one 3 hour movie, should be good enough.
Tennet United States. July 31 2012 05:05. Posts 1291
I hope the movies will still be 3 hours long! They better not be making them 2hrs just to churn out another movie. Though from what I've seen in the production movies, this seems to be a labour of love so I have faith this will be as epic as the LOTR triology. Shit I might even camp outside the cinema for this.
Edit: In regards to ppl saying 3 movies might be too long combared to the relatively short book, I hope they will take the time to expand upon some stuff like Mirkwood etc. maybe show some cool flashback stories from old middle earth (Silmarillion). Just think about how much stuff they didnt have time to put into the LOTR triology.
On July 31 2012 05:13 Mataru wrote: I hope the movies will still be 3 hours long! They better not be making them 2hrs just to churn out another movie. Though from what I've seen in the production movies, this seems to be a labour of love so I have faith this will be as epic as the LOTR triology. Shit I might even camp outside the cinema for this.
Edit: In regards to ppl saying 3 movies might be too long combared to the relatively short book, I hope they will take the time to expand upon some stuff like Mirkwood etc. maybe show some cool flashback stories from old middle earth (Silmarillion). Just think about how much stuff they didnt have time to put into the LOTR triology.
They can't use any Silmarillion material because they don't have the rights for it, but it wouldn't fit in anyway.
Also, please correct some names, OP.
It's Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Sylvester McCoy. Also, Laketown, not Rivertown.
On July 31 2012 05:13 Mataru wrote: I hope the movies will still be 3 hours long! They better not be making them 2hrs just to churn out another movie. Though from what I've seen in the production movies, this seems to be a labour of love so I have faith this will be as epic as the LOTR triology. Shit I might even camp outside the cinema for this.
Edit: In regards to ppl saying 3 movies might be too long combared to the relatively short book, I hope they will take the time to expand upon some stuff like Mirkwood etc. maybe show some cool flashback stories from old middle earth (Silmarillion). Just think about how much stuff they didnt have time to put into the LOTR triology.
They can't use any Silmarillion material because they don't have the rights for it, but it wouldn't fit in anyway.
Also, please correct some names, OP.
It's Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Sylvester McCoy. Also, Laketown, not Rivertown.
Oops. Thanks. And while I'm at it, I'll add the first four production videos as well.
I will see this period. Don't care if they don't finish. LOTR should have been 6 movies with all the anticlimactic material included in my opinion, so I'm glad I'm not Peter Jackson as he does it better than that for mass appeal.
But I really hope non-canon is kept at a minimum.
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Alakaslam United States. July 31 2012 05:53. Posts 3932
I will see this period. Don't care if they don't finish the story in the first movie. LOTR should have been 6 movies with all the anticlimactic material included in my opinion, so I'm glad I'm not Peter Jackson as he does it better than that for mass appeal.
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