Merry Christmas everyone. It looks like Peter Jackson has decided we have all been good boys and girls this year and deserve a present or two.
First the trailer and now the fifth production video. This edition is all about the logisitics of filming on location. It is 12 minutes long and packed with plenty of beautiful scenery
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The Hobbit publicist Melissa Booth said she was unable to confirm locations. However, rumour has it Nelson (the second oldest settled city in New Zealand) will play host to 400-500 cast and crew during November and December 2011.
Nelson is located on the North coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and is close to four
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Geoff Boucher of the LA Times sits down with Peter Jackson and discusses Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and other Hobbit goodness.
How good is Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins? Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson says there is “simply nobody else” who could star in ”The Hobbit” epic that will be told over two films, the first reaching theaters in
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From left to right. Jed Brophy as Nori, Dean O’Gorman as Fili, Mark Hadlow as Dori, James Nesbitt as Bofur, Peter Hambleton as Gloin, Graham McTavish
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The good guys over at The One Ring.net have given us at last....Thorin Oakenshield!
Thoughts?
I'm sorry...he looks a little Klingon to me. I know that these are just studio photos but still. Thorin is around 21 years older than Balin...and where's the long beard?
*knock knock* And another two Dwarves arrive at our doorstep!! One would almost expect a gracious bow and an "At your service!" with the way these pesky Dwarves keep arriving in twos and threes!
But....unlike our friend Bilbo....we are most grateful and not the least bit perturbed to see them.
Peter Jackson has posted the second installment of his "Video Blog" as the filming of The Hobbit continues.
Follow along as the Cast and Crew have finished Block #1 of filming (they are going to shoot the films in three separate blocks as Peter explains) and share what they are going to be up to during the break between blocks.
Our first look at Jed Brophy as Nori, Adam Brown as Ori and Mark Hadlow as Dori in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
So are they what you expected? Do you love the costumes, swords, beards? Or maybe you thought they would wear more armour? Why not share your thoughts with fellow fans in the The Hobbit Movie thread.
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After delays to the start of filming and sneak peeks on the set we have now been rewarded for our patience with the first pictures of a few of the cast.
One of Bilbo (Martin Freeman) reading a long letter in Bag End with the Dwarves sat in the background.
One of Gandalf sitting in the roots of a tree
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It's time to get excited once again.
What does everyone think of the new trailer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnaojlfdUbs
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