I had no idea The Hobbit, coming out this month, was the first of a planned trilogy! I did not know until I saw a photo from the 3rd movie. Here's an excerpt from Entertainment Weekly's website:
When the second and third installments of the Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug (out Dec. 13, 2013) and There and Back Again
(out July 18, 2014), arrive in theaters, we’ll encounter some familiar
faces as well as some new ones as Bilbo and the dwarves continue their
perilous journey to the Lonely Mountain, home of the dragon Smaug. One
familiar face will be Orlando Bloom’s elf Legolas (pictured here in a
shot from There and Back Again – click to enlarge), a major character in the Rings trilogy but one not mentioned in the Hobbit book.
So what is he doing in these films? “He’s [elven king] Thranduil’s son, and Thranduil is one of the characters in The Hobbit, and
because elves are immortal it makes sense Legolas would be part of the
sequence in the Woodland Realm,” director Peter Jackson explains.
Conferring with Legolas is one of the Hobbit trilogy’s major
new faces: the heroic human Laketown warrior Bard the Bowman (Luke
Evans). “Bard is an interesting character, but [in the book] he’s kind
of a random character who comes in after the fact,” says screenwriter
and producer Philippa Boyens. “We take more time introducing him. We
know from what follows that he was a father, so we [explore] that. I
don’t think we take liberties, because it’s all there in the
storytelling.”
And the picture:
What are your thoughts about this book being turned into a trilogy?
2 comments:
I think Peter Jackson has taken on more than he should have. It's a very small book and doesn't need to be a trilogy. Remember the horrible Star Wars trilogy.
I loved Lord of the Rings. It gave me something to look forward to each year, but the Hobbit, not so much.
Be specific. The FIRST Star Wars trilogy was great. :)
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