Hobbit trailer comes out tonight.

[Triumph]

Money grab. 3D will be the death, not the savior, of the cinema's if they keep pushing it too hard.

So far, every movie I've seen in 3D has been crappy anyway (Avatar, Clash of the Titans, one other I can't remember the name of). But the 3D was not overbearing so that the movie would have been pointless without it. As long as they keep "2D" movies coming, just don't buy a 3D ticket.

I think that movies, Blue Rays, and TV's look so good now, are so large, and are so cheap, that people are just generally happy, which means there's not as much incentive to trade up. The retailers are hoping 3D will be that incentive, but I doubt it will be.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I read that the second part of this movie is supposed to be temporally close to just before the LOTR trilogy. Anyone know what it's actually going to be about?

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

I read that the second part of this movie is supposed to be temporally close to just before the LOTR trilogy. Anyone know what it's actually going to be about?

*Spoilers*

This movie shows how Bilbo found the ring and introduces Gollum, Gandalf, and Bilbo.

It is the prequel to LoTR.

Bilbo is a young hobbit in this game, LoTR occurs like 50 or so years after The Hobbit.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

*Spoilers*

This movie shows how Bilbo found the ring and introduces Gollum, Gandalf, and Bilbo.

It is the prequel to LoTR.

Bilbo is a young hobbit in this game, LoTR occurs like 50 or so years after The Hobbit.

I've read the book; what I mean is, I read that AFTER the book events of the Hobbit, this movie is supposed to show something that happens just before the LOTR trilogy, I wonder if anyone knows what that specifically will be about.

From the Wikipedia entry for the film: "As Frodo hadn't been born during the events of The Hobbit, the inclusion of Frodo indicated that parts of the story would take place shortly before or during the events of The Lord of the Rings."

Legolas is in it too, and he wasn't in the Hobbit book, so either he will have something to do with this OR they have transplanted him into the Hobbit story.

 

[oddyager]

Can't wait!

 

[SKORPI0]

Isn't this one of the first films being shot with RED Epic cameras? (5k res. 96FPS etc etc)

The Amazing Spider-Man might (2012) beat it to the theaters though, or maybe even the just released Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film The Hobbit, tempt you to blow your savings - Nov 2010 article.

That's $ 58K/camera, a bargain.

Working RED EPIC camera demonstrated at NAB 2010 - April 2010.

 

[Triumph]

Legolas is in it too, and he wasn't in the Hobbit book, so either he will have something to do with this OR they have transplanted him into the Hobbit story.

Legolas is one of the wood elves of Mirkwood which Bilbo and the dwarves pass through, so it would make sense that they would put him in, in a theatrical sense. But you're right, he wasn't in the book.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Legolas is one of the wood elves of Mirkwood which Bilbo and the dwarves pass through, so it would make sense that they would put him in, in a theatrical sense. But you're right, he wasn't in the book.

It would make sense, but I'm actually wondering if he will be featuring in whatever they are injecting that takes place between Hobbit and LOTR.

Unless, of course, all that really refers to is Old Bilbo talking about it sometime just before LOTR.

 

[Via]

Just watch the trailer.

Damn, I'm a little worried now. I hope it's as great as it should be.

 

[Triumph]

If they put some humor into it ala Gimli in Two Towers, that would be ok. He added good comic relief, not too over the top, not completely bumbling like Jar Jar Binks. But Gimli had enough of a role that his character could be developed and you could see other sides of him. I can see a problem with the Hobbit and having 13 dwarves. That's way too many characters to really give any screen time to. And in the book, none of them really stand out other than Thorin.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'm sure they'll focus on Balin a bit as well, at least relative to the others since we sort of run into him again in FotR. Would be kind of neat to give some life to his character in The Hobbit so that Gimli's discovery in Moria is felt a bit more by the audience

 

[*kjm]

Production video five is now out and has some good eye candy
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150554790416807&set=vb.141884481557&type=2&theater

 

[alkemyst]

Production video five is now out and has some good eye candy
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150554790416807&set=vb.141884481557&type=2&theater

No matter how much cgi, no hobbit is ever going to be hot.

 

[*kjm]

No matter how much cgi, no hobbit is ever going to be hot.

I ment the landscape

 

[mugs]

Production video five is now out and has some good eye candy
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150554790416807&set=vb.141884481557&type=2&theater

Gollum is the second unit director :hmm:

 

[KeithTalent]

Billy Connolly in as a Dwarf: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/hobbit-rounds-cast-billy-connolly-288267 :awe:

KT

 

[GundamW]

Gollum is the second unit director :hmm:

Well, of course. This movie is his PRECIOUS....

 

[Red Squirrel]

Looking forward to this!

 

[GundamW]

No matter how much cgi, no hobbit is ever going to be hot.

Rosie Cotton was pretty hot in the movie.

 

[sactoking]

It would make sense, but I'm actually wondering if he will be featuring in whatever they are injecting that takes place between Hobbit and LOTR.

Unless, of course, all that really refers to is Old Bilbo talking about it sometime just before LOTR.

IIRC the reason they went with two movies is so they could add some of the stuff from the LOTR appendices about the siege of Dol Guldur and whatnot.

Spoiler

When Gandalf leaves the dwarves he heads off into southern Mirkwood, joins up with Galadriel, Celeborn, et al and they assualt the Necromancer in Dol Guldur. That's when they all realize that Sauron was the Necromancer and Sauron retreats to Barad Dur. They are also supposed to be including Aragorn and Legolas as it was the two of them who hunted Gollum after the siege of Dol Guldur to prevent Sauron from finding him and learning that the ring still existed.

 

[mmntech]

I was going to go on an epic journey with Bilbo Baggens, until I took an arrow to the knee.