The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first installment in Peter Jackson's new Middle-Earth trilogy. Based on the beloved fantasy world created by author J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit. As he did with his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson shot the three Hobbit films back to back on location in New Zealand. There are three parts; part one, An Unexpected Journey; part two, The Desolation of Smaug; part 3, There and Back Again - due for theatrical release 2013 and 2014, respectively.
Set in Middle-Earth sixty years before The Lord of the Rings, the story tells of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is hired by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) to accompany thirteen dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on a quest across Middle-Earth to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon, Smaug.
The film premiered in Wellington, New Zealand on 28 November 2012 and was released internationally on 13 December 2012, where it has since received mixed critical reaction.
Personally, I thought the movie was extraordinary and really captivating, despite the length of it, 169mins. I think The Hobbit is the heart that drives The Lord of The Rings, so there's an incredible good humour and buoyancy and masterful storytelling.
I am such a huge fan of Lord of The Rings, and thought director Peter Jackson and his crew did such an amazing job on that trilogy, I couldn't have thought of some other director creating The Hobbit.
Fun Facts:
- The shoot ran for 266 days, notably the same as LoTR
- During the time of filming, they spent $380,000 (AUD) on coffee
- The Hobbit is a children's book
- Tolkien almost didn't finish the book
- Thranduil (the father of Legolas) make his first on screen appearance. In Tolkien's Hobbit he was called "The King of Mirkwood," and his full name was only revealed in LoTR
- Stephen Fry makes an appearance as the grubby Lord of Laketown
- J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the first line of The Hobbit – “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit”
- Bilbo Baggins, the reluctant “halfling” of the title is aged 51 at the start of his heroic quest
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