Pre-emptive warning for movie spoilers. This all started when I began looking into Bilbo’s mithril shirt for our…
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This all started when I began looking into Bilbo’s mithril shirt for our mega-spoiler post, following up a tip from an eagle-eyed reader that said shirt had been sighted in one of Peter Jackson’s previous production blogs.
It wasn’t the clearest of vision, but yes it seemed as though it was Bilbo’s mithril shirt — the same one we see him give to Frodo at Rivendell in The Fellowship of the Ring. Nice to know, but not much of a revelation. Continue reading “Bilbo’s coming down the mountain”
Check out this hilarious clip from the Conan Show, where Andy Serkis shows how to be an ape and then channels a conversation between Gollum and Caesar the Ape 😀
A little earlier, a birdie landed on our mountain and informed us that Peter Jackson put his final approval on the first trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies just today. Continue reading “Spy says Peter Jackson has approved the next Hobbit trailer”
Doug Adams, musicologist and author of Music of Lord of the Rings says that he’s headed back to Tolkien’s world. His first stop-off will be a guest appearance the Salt Lake City Fantasy Con in just a week or so, but we wonder what those surprising announcements might be? Hmmm… Continue reading “Doug Adams “headed back to Tolkien’s world””
Wondering just what we might see when the Extended Edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug finally debuts? The following videos cut together by a helpful ringer provide some hints. Some of the images and footage will be familiar to you, some maybe not so much. Of course, this is not a guarantee that all of this stuff will make it in.
Currently, we expect that the EE will hit the shelves sometime in November this year. Continue reading “Clips of scenes we might get to see in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition”
Sir Peter Jackson is amongst the 30 honorees selected to receive a star on Hollywood’s the Walk of Fame in 2015, that the Walk of Fame Selection Committee announced on Thursday morning.
Sir Peter is said to be “chuffed” at this latest accolade.
The full list of honorees for 2015 are:
Motion pictures – Raymond Chandler (posthumous), Eugenio Derbez, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Garner, Peter Jackson, Bob Kane (posthumous), Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Rudd, Snoopy, Melissa McCarthy and Christoph Waltz
Television – James L Brooks, Ken Ehrlich, Bobby Flay, Seth MacFarlane, Julianna Margulies, Chris O’Donnell, Jim Parsons, Amy Poehler, Kelly Ripa and Sofia Vergara.
Recording – Lukasz ‘Dr Luke’ Gottwald, Kool & The Gang, Pitbull, Al Schmitt and Pharrell Williams.
Radio – Larry Elder.
Live theatre-live performance – Kristin Chenoweth, Dick Gregory and Ennio Morricone.
