Finally the shooting for Peter Jackson’s much awaited ‘The Hobbit’ begins last month. This project was not in good shape when Guillermo del Toro decided to move on from directing this 2 part epic and then there were some budget conflicts with the studio, but now everything has fallen into place and things are looking pretty good and on schedule.
I am very excited as Peter Jackson is one hell of a director and one of my favorites. The budget for the two part Hobbit movie (Part 1 – Dec 2012 & Part 2 - 2013) will be around $300 million, this exceeds the budget of making the ‘Lord of the Rings’ (LOTR) trilogy which stood at around $285 million. I was a bit disappointed when I came to know that Elijah Wood would not be reprising his role of Bilbo Baggins (as in the previous trilogy) and instead of Elijah the role has now been bagged by Martin Freeman. It sounds a bit illogical when you replace the actor from movie to movie primarily when the story and the script demands the same physical appearance the audience is used to seeing, it is something like whenever we hear ‘Terminator’ it reminds you of Schwarznegger because no other actor can replace him as the Terminator. Good news is Sir Ian Mckellen will play the role of Gandalf the gray and Andy Serkis will play Gollum/Sméagol like they have played in the LOTR trilogy. Peter Jackson has promised that these two movies will be full of fun, excitement, new creatures, new locations and tons and loads of CGI (computer graphics imagery).
Today Peter Jackson has released the first video-blog from the sets of ‘The Hobbit’ and he promised he will continue to do so. It is an excellent marketing stategy specially when a budget of $300 million is at stake and moreover it will keep the audience excited and engaged about the proceedings. After watching the video, I can assue you that something unfathomable is on the way. ‘The Hobbit’ is a prequel to the LOTR and is set 60 years before the LOTR saga. The story revolves around Bilbo Baggins the main protagnist and how with the help of his other friends he try to rescue the land of the dwarfs (The Kingdom of Erebor) which has been conqured by the evil dragon Smaug. Though based on the story ‘The Hobbit’ by J.R.R Tolkien the script of ‘The Hobbit’ (the movie) is not much different from LOTR, but I am pretty sure Peter Jackson will add his midas touch to it. The total earnings for the LOTR trilogy was something around $2.91 billion (world wide) and it seems Peter Jackson is all gaeared up to break his own record.
Gollum is back everybody and so is his and ours ……precioussss.
Enjoy and watch the video.
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