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.
ยท New 'Hobbit' Images Online [Empire]