Check Out Two New Photos From The Hobbit: Bilbo and Gandalf Face Off
Thanks to a couple of new stills in Empire magazine, the latest pictures of Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman's sepia-hued prestige in The Hobbit are upon us! And they look... so shadowy. Like a Middle-earth version of There Will Be Blood, where Martin Freeman plays H.W. and McKellen plays a post-apocalyptic version of Daniel Plainview (whose Pringles mustache is replaced with a fibrous beard). Get a load of "young" Gandalf and a new quote from Peter Jackson.
"I'm exactly the same filmmaker as I was ten years ago," says Jackson. "I'm trying to nail the same thing that I did before. I'm just telling the story." The only difference is that this time he has a bunch of snarky dwarves to corral. "They don't know what to make of Gandalf, they think Bilbo is a wuss, and Elrond a prissy headmaster type," laughs Jackson.
I'm definitely game for a new trilogy called Snarky Dwarves. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in December of 2012.
· New 'Hobbit' Images Online [Empire]
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This looks like a total rip-off of Lord of the Rings.
Can anyone really say, “I’m exactly the same filmmaker as I was ten years ago?” First, it cannot possibly be true, and second, wouldn't he like to think he has grown or learned new things?
Beautiful. It's like we never left The Shire. Freeman looks incredible as a hobbit (I knew he would the second I saw his face with the announcement that he had the role of Bilbo). And Gandalf? Well, he's just the greatest wizard of all time, period. CAPOTE: you're reading too much into it. I think if anything, PJ's trying to assure Tolkien fans that he's bringing the same authenticity and faithfulness to Middle Earth as he did 10 years ago. And that sounds pretty good to me. And LIL PALIN....I laughed 🙂
Li'l Palin, correct me if I'm wrong, please, but I'm pretty sure something can't be a rip off of Lord of the Rings if it's based on something that was written by the author of LotR, is a prequel of LotR, and is made by the same director who did the LotR films...