With the last teaser poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Warner Bros. marketing team quite consciously called back to Peter Jackson's earlier Lord of the Rings trilogy. The portrait of a sword-wielding Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) was of a piece with the posters for Fellowship of the Rings and Return of the King,…
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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…
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At this point what more is there to say about yet another dwarf reveal from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? (Other than, perhaps, "uh, where's Thorin?") Here is the latest image dispatch from Peter Jackson's version of Middle-Earth, featuring Ken Stott as Balin (on the left) and Graham McTavish as Dwalin. These two guys are…
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Looks like we can expect to see a steady stream of images showing the dwarves of Peter Jackson's two upcoming films based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Yesterday we saw brother dwarves Dori, Nori and Ori (played by Jed Brophy, Adam Brown and Mark Hadlow) and today we have the first image of John Callen…
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Warner Bros/New Line Cinema and MGM have announced the start of production on The Hobbit in New Zealand, which includes a full update on the signed cast (many of which have been previously announced or rumored, but a couple new additions): Martin Freeman takes the title role as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen returns in…
Read MorePeter Jackson has, at long last, made an official announcement about who will appear in The Hobbit. He has confirmed Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, taking over the role originated by Ian Holm in The Lord of the Rings. A great many other names were released as well, almost all of whom make up the…
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