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Bookmark this pageThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Director: Peter Jackson
Synopsis
Strictly speaking, this is two films: ‘An Unexpected Journey’, due on December 14 2012, and ‘There and Back Again’, due on November 13 2013. With shooting finally underway – check out Peter Jackson’s entertaining series of on-set blogs – it seems nothing can stand in the way of Bilbo and co. come next Christmas. The plot doesn’t really need repeating – homely shortarse meets gang of marauding burglars, havoc ensues – but the focus of discussion is still that bizarre, mismatched cast, which ranges from the sublime – Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee and Andy Serkis back on board, Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch join the team – to the ridiculous – moody Yellow Pages salesman James Nesbitt as Bofur, ex-Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy as Radagast the Brown and the inestimable Barry Humphries as the Great Goblin.
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm, Lee Pace, Stephen Fry
Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Epics, Fantasy
UK Release: Dec 14 2012
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