I can't wait to see this movie.   this makes me wanna see it MORE.  I hate to ask but was Marin in the LOTR movies?

Last edited by sherlockskitty (July 17, 2012 5:23 am)

No, Martin was not in LOTR.   

The first Hobbit movie will be in theaters on December 14, and the second one about a year later.  (There is also talk of a possible third (!) Hobbit movie.)

Jackson & crew were originally planning to film The Hobbit before LotR (logically enough, since the story occurs 60 years earlier), but they ran into a legal snag and finally decided to do LotR first.  If they had not hit that snag, they would have begun filming The Hobbit in the late 90's, and whoever was cast as Bilbo would have played that role in all of the films.  Martin Freeman was then in his late 20's, far too young to be Bilbo (who is about 50 in the book), and relatively unknown even in the UK.  Possibly Ian Holm would have played the part, as he did so well in LotR, but he was approaching age 70, and Bilbo's role in The Hobbit is much more physical than in LotR.  So who knows?

Last edited by Carol the Dabbler (July 25, 2012 2:25 am)

Thanks for posting hepzibah. I enjoyed the interviews too. 

New Hobbit production video