Continuing his belief there can never be enough supplemental footage added to the world of Tolkien, Peter Jackson has posted a new video of Q&A related to the upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey sequel, The Desolation of Smaug. It reveals some looks at Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lily, and the way Jackson will put his bare feet all over your furniture--plus, for some bonus nerd points, two of the inquisitors are Stephen Colbert and Pippin. Disappointingly, Jackson never addresses the most obvious query--"three movies?"--but you can see what he does respond to below.
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His work in repetition and stalling have already stretched a simple tale into a three-film deal, and now lengthening innovator Peter Jackson has figured a way to pad The Hobbit into a three-year affair as well. His secret? Post-production delays.
Once scheduled for a July 18, 2014 release, The Hobbit: There and Back Again has now reportedly been bumped to December 17--like the upcoming Desolation of Smog, heading to theaters a full year after its predecessor. The move means the trilogy closer is no longer going up against the summer competition of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Now no nerd must be forced choose between the sci-fi time travel of mutants and the variously-grounded time travel of "Oh, I guess we're just going watch to these dwarves walk for a few minutes now."
Considering the loose connective Freeman between The Office (UK) and The Hobbit (NZ), and how little is required to inspire mash-ups, this The Office: An Unexpected Journey video from EagerBeaver isn't altogether that surprising. That said, it is also way more impressively elaborate than what you'd imagine, or that it has any right to be. Watch below, as the horrifying amalgam of Gareth-as-Gollum alone is worth seeing (and, if possible, unseeing).
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Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly jumped ahead to bring us a first look at the final film of The Hobbit trilogy--the one that won't really be based on The Hobbit so much as "some of the related material in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings." Today they edge back a bit to show us a first look at The Desolation of Smaug, the second film, with an image that should make sense to anyone who's read The Hobbit. For those unfamiliar, here's a clip that should give it some context:
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As evidenced by the continued strain on the World of Warcraft servers, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has yet to reach theaters, but already we're getting a look at the third film in the trilogy. From Entertainment Weekly, here's Luke Evans as Bard and Orlando Bloom reprising Blondie in The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the one that comes out July of 2014. Bloom will longingly gaze at things again! Just another year and a half.
Here's the latest TV spot for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, with a first, fleeting look at Smaug, the CGI dragon voiced and motion-capture-acted by star Martin Freeman's Sherlock chum Benedict Cumberbatch. And for those less impressed with a British dragon: there is also a hug.
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It's becoming a day thick with talking about The Hobbit, but it's nothing compared to what The Colbert Report has coming up: a full week of episodes devoted to the film. Because sometimes you have to take a break from political satire to chat about wizards and shit.
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Howard Shore's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey score isn't officially released until December 11, but if you just can't wait to hear some music cues, you can now listen to them at RollingStone, where they're streaming the entire soundtrack, from "My Dear Frodo" to Aerosmith's "The Unexpected Journey of You." Give the rest of your Friday some high fantasy undertones. You've earned it.
It still sounds like The Hobbit trailer, but now it looks like other geek-beloved things! Welcome to the future.
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See how with days before The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey's premiere, and only a few weeks before the wide release, the film's post-production team is still working around the clock to get everything done on time in this latest production diary from Peter Jackson. Hope for the best, because if these guys don't somehow get it finished by mid-December, theaters are just going to show a particularly adventuresome episode of Step by Step and hope it plays.
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Upset that the trailers for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have not been as aligned and meticulously ordered as your pewter, scale-model recreation of the Battle of Helm's Deep?Good news: you are probably not the only fantasy fan to suffer from anxiety disorders! Other good news: someone has sorted that out-of-order trailer problem for you, re-assembling all The Hobbit's various clips, trailers, and TV spots into a new, seven-and-a-half-minute cut that plays out what's available as chronologically as possible. Here you go:
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Warner Bros. may love murdering horses even more than HBO.
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Wagering that there might be some sort of cross-over market between nerds that like dwarves and nerds that like Klingons, Paramount is going to try hooking audiences into Star Trek Into Darkness when they go to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Following in the path of Warner Bros. with their Batmen, the studio is reportedly to debut the first nine minutes of J.J. Abrams' unnervingly-unpunctuated sequel in about 500 theaters this December, to be shown exclusively before IMAX screenings of Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien adaptation. Those in attendance should expect the footage to be met with 90% cheering, 10% scornful chuckles followed by exasperated, muttered explanations of why the fantasy and science fiction genres could not be further from each other.
Come on. He is begging you to look at the rest.
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With The Hobbit marketing already at fever pitch at Denny's, the Warner Bros. marketing team is moving on to another primary source of American nourishment with a TV spot for the film. Have a look below.
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For once, a coy tease from the pages of Playboy has an actual payoff: following an interview the magazine ran in which Stephen Colbert playfully hinted he "could be" in Peter Jackson's Hobbit films, a "knowledgable source" has now confirmed to THR that Colbert totally is making a cameo. There's no word on what the part will be, or even whether Colbert will be recognizable, but the source did add that the appearance does not come with the first film this December. Sorry; the only Colbert Christmas you're getting this year is the usual Colbert Christmas.
Could acknowledged Tolkien nerd Stephen Colbert--seen here dueling Frodo with the sword(s) Sting, here unabashedly playing with Lord of the Rings toys and wielding Aragorn's sword Andúril, Flame of the West--have some kind of cameo in The Hobbit now-trilogy? Maybe!
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The New Zealand postal and banking systems will soon be way nerdier: thanks to a deal with Warner Bros., Peter Jackson's homeland and preferred locale for shooting majestic vistas will, beginning November 1, will be selling a series of stamps and coins branded with The Hobbit and its stars. The coins are all legal tender, so from here out on, it's time to settle any and all debts in terms of Hugo Weavings. Have a look below.
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Well, Martin Freeman: the bad news is you lost your Emmy category to Tom Berenger. But the good news is, while Berenger's trilogy legacy is tied up in the Sniper films, you're about to carry a huge blockbuster trilogy based on one of the best-known fantasy novels of all-time, so you shouldn't even sweat it. Remind yourself of this with a new poster prominently bearing your likeness. And if that doesn't make you feel any better, give The Office Christmas Special a go. You really sold the shit out of that.
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Clearly not shy about unexpectedly tacking on a little extra Hobbit at the last minute, Peter Jackson has released on the official film five alternate versions of his latest fantasy's trailer--each the same as the Hobbit trailer from earlier today except for the ending. To save you the trouble of having to go through all these trailers for a few seconds of bonus footage, here's a video compiling just the variant conclusions. Only by watching will you know for sure whether one ending involves hot elf sex.
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