Official 'The Hobbit' Thread - Part 4

[Armored Avenger]

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Here's some interviews with the actors... and lolwut? at what Turner says about Kili. I hope it's not true.

Kili trying to romance Tauriel?

 

[regwec]

Clint speaks for us all.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

It's probably similar to Gimli's infatuation with Galdriel. I won't panic until I see Kili going through her underwear drawer.

 

[regwec]

That's worrying in itself, though. It seems that PJ wants to draw a lot of parallels between LOTR and The Hobbit, and force a lot of additional and unjustified references to the former into the latter. I like PJ, but some of his movies have a tendency to get cluttered and overburdened, and this hints at the problem recurring with The Hobbit.

 

[Yodaman]

Clint speaks for us all.

As a really short dude with an Evangeline Lily crush, I don't really mind.

 

[Boom]

Just confirming what Peter Jackson said a year ago: The Hobbit will be at Comic Con 2012.

Warner Bros. also has reserved a three-hour block Saturday and is likely to anchor its presentation with THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, and plans include first-look footage from next summer’s MAN OF STEEL (studio has never taken one of Christopher Nolan’s Batman pics to the show, and there are no indications that this year will be any exception). Sources also tell Variety that Legendary Pictures plans to join distrib partner Warners with a preview of Guillermo Del Toro’s tentpole PACIFIC RIM, though the studio would not confirm those plans.

http://www.showblitz.com/2012/06/comic-con-2012-whos-in-whos-out.html

And this article on Bill Connolly may provide us with a wrap date for principal photography:

Connolly is back in the country to do more work on The Hobbit as dwarf warrior Dain Ironfoot.

“I have a war to fight. Elves to kill. Orcs to maim,” he says.

Connolly says he’s enjoying his time working on The Hobbit immensely and that Peter Jackson is not hard task master but a perfectionist.

“He knows what he wants and he stays on the case until he gets it. It’s highly technical and we do a lot of takes. It’s not like normal movies where you just have to get your words right and avoid the furniture.”

He says New Zealand is a lovely place but he had not done much sightseeing, apart from a spot of fishing in Rotorua.

The Fido actor is not sure how long he will be in New Zealand this time round.

“I have an invitation to the wrap party on July the 7th so I think they have ideas of me staying that long.”

http://entertainment.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=8482708

 

[Armored Avenger]

It's probably similar to Gimli's infatuation with Galdriel. I won't panic until I see Kili going through her underwear drawer.

Galadriel was one of the most powerful and beautiful Elves in the history of Middle-Earth. When Gimli becomes enamoured with Galadriel it is unexpected and the fact the a Dwarf should become so infatuated with an Elf is played as rare, slightly comic and touching. It's a great character moment for Gimli (and Galadriel as well, as her gift to him helps to show a different side to her character when compared to her lofty scenes with Frodo).
Tauriel is apparently just a guard or soldier in the armies of Mirkwood. It just seems lazy and uninspired to have another Dwarf develop a crush on the only other prominent female Elf in the film series (especially when said crush is held by the only member of the company whose un-dwarven design still fuels my nerd rage).

I have yet to see or hear anything that makes me comfortable with the inclusion of Tauriel. I fear that she may weaken the development of Bilbo as an independent hero, due to her presence in the Mirkwood scenes and a fear I have that she may help Bilbo and the Dwarves escape (we already have Thranduil and Legolas playing antagonistic Mirkwood Elves, which makes me think Tauriel may be used to show a more heroic side to them). Mirkwood is the location where Bilbo really steps up to the plate and becomes a truly valuable asset to the company, fighting a horde of Spiders, evading capture by the Elves and rescuing the Dwarves with a plan he himself conceived, all without the help of Gandalf. If Tauriel is holding his hand, so to speak, during all of this then it will considerably diminish his character's achievements. I know this fear is unfounded at the moment, but Tauriel is clearly a substantial role (otherwise they wouldn't have bothered creating a new character) and apart from the Battle of Five Armies, the scenes in the Elvenking's Halls are the only place where she can get any real exposure and development.

 

[FVD]

If they're indeed going with this Kili Tauriel romance I suppose there could some emotional weight involved given the fact that he [blackout] along with brother Fili dies while helping defend his Uncle Thorin also having been mortally wounded.[/blackout]

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Galadriel was one of the most powerful and beautiful Elves in the history of Middle-Earth. When Gimli becomes enamoured with Galadriel it is unexpected and the fact the a Dwarf should become so infatuated with an Elf is played as rare, slightly comic and touching. It's a great character moment for Gimli (and Galadriel as well, as her gift to him helps to show a different side to her character when compared to her lofty scenes with Frodo).
Tauriel is apparently just a guard or soldier in the armies of Mirkwood. It just seems lazy and uninspired to have another Dwarf develop a crush on the only other prominent female Elf in the film series (especially when said crush is held by the only member of the company whose un-dwarven design still fuels my nerd rage).

I have yet to see or hear anything that makes me comfortable with the inclusion of Tauriel. I fear that she may weaken the development of Bilbo as an independent hero, due to her presence in the Mirkwood scenes and a fear I have that she may help Bilbo and the Dwarves escape (we already have Thranduil and Legolas playing antagonistic Mirkwood Elves, which makes me think Tauriel may be used to show a more heroic side to them). Mirkwood is the location where Bilbo really steps up to the plate and becomes a truly valuable asset to the company, fighting a horde of Spiders, evading capture by the Elves and rescuing the Dwarves with a plan he himself conceived, all without the help of Gandalf. If Tauriel is holding his hand, so to speak, during all of this then it will considerably diminish his character's achievements. I know this fear is unfounded at the moment, but Tauriel is clearly a substantial role (otherwise they wouldn't have bothered creating a new character) and apart from the Battle of Five Armies, the scenes in the Elvenking's Halls are the only place where she can get any real exposure and development.

*shrug* I don't know what to tell you. Brace for impact!

 

[Boom]

Hay guyz :

http://www.albertafilmratings.ca/recentclasstrailers.aspx

 

[Kane52630]

Hay guyz :

http://www.albertafilmratings.ca/recentclasstrailers.aspx

2:24 mins long? nice!

 

[Doctor Jones]

Oh... yeeeaaaaaahhhh!

 

[Boom]

I'm assuming it'll be with Brave next week.

Now please, for the love of God, give me a shot of Beorn.

 

[JP]

2:24 mins long? nice!

 

[Marvolo]

I'm assuming it'll be with Brave next week.

Now please, for the love of God, give me a shot of Beorn.

Wouldn't this more likely to be attached to TDKR next month?

 

[Boom]

Trailers usually come out a week after they've been classified.

The trailer could still end up attached to TDKR (hell, I've seen the Frankenweenie trailer attached to four different films), but it'll probably debut with Brave next week. That's my guess, anyway.

 

[Marvolo]

I hope you're right because id rather have the trailer next week as opposed to next month.

 

[Boom]

We all would. We all would .

 

[superkong 500]

Yes! I'm hoping we get shots of Beorn, Thranduil, Thorin in action and some orcs. Maybe a glimpse at Thranduil's halls

 

[Armored Avenger]

Hay guyz :

http://www.albertafilmratings.ca/recentclasstrailers.aspx

 

[matrix_ghost]

Wouldn't this more likely to be attached to TDKR next month?

COuld be. Though i'm thinking that they might show this with Spider-man ..in 3-d.

 

[CGHulk]

I was just thinking today when are we going to see a new Hobbit trailer.

 

[Abudefduf]

lol That woman from The Lost World. What a weird reaction.

Anyway, can't wait for the trailer... is it too much to hope for a glimpse of Smaug?

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

lol That woman from The Lost World. What a weird reaction.

Anyway, can't wait for the trailer... is it too much to hope for a glimpse of Smaug?

I'm not sure about the Smaug glimpse. Won't we only be getting a glimpse of Smaug in the first movie anyway? I think I remember hearing that Smaug plays a larger part in The Hobbit part 2.

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah Smaug is going to be in part II so I doubt they will show him in the trailer but you never know.