Peter Jackson and the rest of the Hobbit crew are all geared up for a few weeks of pickups, he has revealed on his Facebook page.
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Ringnuts have been waiting the best part of a decade to return to Middle-Earth. You can question the order in which Jackson and co. decided to do things. The Hobbit is a decidedly smaller-scale and more intimate tale, charting Bilbo Baggins’ adventure with a company of dwarves to reclaim a treasure hoard, which a dragon called Smaug has decided to use as his bedding. Will it just feel like a cash-in on the success of its predecessors/successors, or will it stand up as a memorable tale in its own right?
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Animal rights campaigners Peta have claimed that up to 27 animals including horses, goats and chickens have died during the production of The Hobbit in New Zealand.
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The Hobbit consists of quite a few known quantities, sure things. Ian McKellan as Gandalf, Andy Serkis as Gollum, Weta Workshop props, costumes and sets. Not everything is certain, though. And we have our first look at one of those things many people are uncertain about – Tauriel. Peter Jackson’s original character
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As the release of The Hobbit draws ever nearer – that is, the release of the first movie in what has now become The Hobbit Trilogy – anticipation mounts. Now we have a brand new trailer. I can’t decide if that makes the wait easier or that much more painful…check it out below.
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Peter Jackson screened about ten minutes of The Hobbit at Cinema-Con last night and the audience reactions were divided. While some were wowed by the footage, which was shot and projected at 48 frames per second (twice the frame rate of almost every film made in the past 90 years), others claimed it looked like a “Korean soap opera.”
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Ye gods, can it truly be? The big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has been forestalled by so many obstacles that it seems a miracle a first trailer has finally arrived. Yet arrived it most certainly has!
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Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the titular character of Masterpiece Theater’s Sherlock Holmes reboot, has been cast as the voice of Smaug in The Hobbit film adaptation.
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Here’s some news that is sure to rile Tokien purists – Orlando Bloom is reportedly set to reprise his role as Legolas in the upcoming film adaptation of The Hobbit even though the character doesn’t appear in the book. A deal hasn’t been cleared yet, but it seems that it is highly likely to happen and indications are that his part will be more than a mere cameo. Not to be too cynical but could this be a way of luring the young female audiences to see a film they might not have been interested in otherwise? Martin Freeman is a good actor but he’s no teen idol. Either that or it shows they are desperately trying to flesh out a story which is unworthy of being made as two films.
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One of the most frequent questions posed by movie fans everywhere at the moment is, who the hell is going to direct ‘The Hobbit’ and when the heck are we going to find out who the hell is going to direct ‘The Hobbit’? Well the news is in and it turns that, according to Peter Jackson, we will find out “sometime soon”.

In an interview in The Dominion Post, Jackson says he is confident that there will soon be certainty about whether it will be him or someone else who will direct the film. He also said that he plans to map out a five year plan regarding his future projects “that will keep many people very busy”. Part of that plan may be a film about the battle of Gallipoli which Jackson suggests he would like to do.
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Peter Jackson has updated the world on Tintin and the upcoming Hobbit movies.
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Back in 2008 the J.R.R. Tolkien estate filed a lawsuit against New Line, trying to block them from moving forward with The Hobbit films until they paid up money that they thought they were owed.
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A loose-lipped Peter Jackson held court with journalists at Comic-Con last weekend, providing updates on the positive wealth of projects in which he is involved; from The Hobbit to Tintin, to the director’s own next feature
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