The Hobbit (Dec 14, 2012/Dec 13, 2013/Dec 16, 2014)

[6souls]

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These press releases are genius. Different news formats getting the pictures of the dwarves from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Today TIME was the lucky recipient of the pictures of Dwalin and Balin. Here is a little description of these dwarf characters.

Dwarf Lords in their own right, Balin and Dwalin are close relatives of Thorin. Beyond this, these brothers are two of his most loyal and trusted friends. An old warrior, Balin has lived through hard times and fought many battles, yet he harbors doubts about the wisdom of the Quest to retake the Lonely Mountain. Dwalin has no such forebodings – his belief in Thorin’s leadership is unshakeable. A powerful and bruising fighter, with a natural tendency to distrust anyone who is not a Dwarf, particularly anyone who might be an Elf, Dwalin is not someone to cross lightly.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/7/15...ted-journ.html
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/15/...-hobbit-movie/

[Galkaeater]

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Hi-res of fili and kili

[Vagrant]

Fili and Kili need to be changed. THey look nothing at all like Dwarves and Kili seems to be channeling his inner Aragorn.

[Tyrath]

They look fine imo. I'm okay with a little variation among the dwarves so I can actually tell who the fuck is who.

[Rulke]

^ This. When you have a race that's bulky and fond of copious facial hair, it's nice to see a change up other than beard color, ya know?

[Eaglestrike]

They could be a little thicker, otherwise I'm fine with it. They look more hobbit than dwarf without the fatness.

[Galkaeater]

Now Thorin Im really not sure what to think
someone pointed out he looks like a klingon
Though a full body passive shot may help me like it more

[Rulke]

^Gdi!! lol, now I can't unsee the Klingon comment!

Still, not really what I imagined Thorin to look like. :/

[ziegh]

Can't unsee Klingon either. I recently saw Sherlock (the BBC 3 episode series) and noticed Sherlock will be Smaug and Watson will be Bilbo.

[Galkaeater]

[grantlogan]

WHY ISN'T THIS MOVIE OUT NOW

[Galkaeater]

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offical picture and damn Thorin looks like a boss

[Greedouw]

my god.... i want this right now

[tyven]

holy F that looks good as a mug. i keep ruining pants every time i come back to this thread

[Galkaeater]

4th production video mostly about 3D and cameras

[Rulke]

Just came here to post this. Totally geeked out :D

[6souls]

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Sir Ian is there and is delivering some lines for this wide shot, giving Tall Paul his cues to wave an arm or shoot a look back over his shoulder to the dwarves and giving the other actors in the scene the real Gandalf to react to.

Gandalf (affectionately referred to as “Gandy” by the crew) is essentially shouting orders to the dwarves to search the area, in a way acting like a parent chaperoning a school field trip, trying to keep everybody on task. Sir Ian came in for the next set up, which was closer. With the incline of the slope and various dips and valleys to the landscape they were able to get Sir Ian and the dwarves into the same shot without using doubles.

It is Bilbo who finds the entrance to the troll cave, which was a giant rock set out at a sharp angle over the forest floor. A set had been constructed a good 100 feet away, but Peter didn’t like it, so they used this natural spot for the mouth of the cave. There was talk that there might be a new interior set constructed back in Wellington for reverse shots.

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Amongst the stash of treasure and weapons taken from poor dwarves, elves, orcs and men captured and eaten by these trolls is a tiny elvish blade, barely bigger than a dagger for a regular man, but just the right size for a Hobbit.

Unless I’m misremembering Fellowship, Peter Jackson filmed Gandalf handing Sting over to Bilbo to mirror Bilbo giving Frodo the sword in LOTR. In other words, he makes a moment out of it. With the beautiful green forest in the background (cave entrance), Martin reluctantly receives the sword, pulling it slowly out of its sheath.

Thorin gets Orcrist here as well, which you can see him wield in his promo picture by the way. Orcrist is a long, flat blade and they filmed a scene of Richard Armitage swinging it down in a wide arc striking down a leaping evil thing to be added in digitally before all is said and done.

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Kili uses a bow and arrow and the rest of the team have their own different weapons, like Graham McTavish’s Dwalin wields two axes and William Kircher’s Bifur more often than not uses stabbing weapons like spears. There’s also single axes, clubs and even cooking spoons as in the case of the fattest of the dwarves, Bombur (Stephen Hunter), who I’m convinced was modeled after Harry.

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Gandalf and Radagast share a scene as well. Sylvester McCoy plays Radagast the Brown, a somewhat kooky wizard who is more at home with animals, insects and flora than he is with people.

Based on what I’ve seen over the last few weeks I think it’s going to be a toss up between Bombur and Radagast on who will steal the movie. Bombur is just so loveable and funny and Radagast is ridiculously endearing, an absent-minded St. Francis of Assisi.

Radagast comes with a word of warning that foreshadows some trouble our group will run into later. The words “Mirkwood,” “webs,” “Ungoliant” and “Dol Guldur” are mentioned.

Due to the complexity of shooting a group of different sized races they had to do an effects shot in this location. As Radagast arrives and talks with Gandalf the dwarves look on, distrusting this newly arrived individual. Bilbo is there as well and is obviously taken aback by this weird man (even once pulling an Office and looking at the camera with wide eyes, head slightly shaking… how cool is that?).

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As you can see in the picture above he’s mostly being used as Gandalf’s stand in and it’s pretty eerie just how much he looks like Sir Ian when in full Gandalf getup. There are some shots from the side where all you can see is beard, hat and nose and that’s enough to make your brain register Gandalf, even in person.

Paul has worked closely with Sir Ian to make sure his Gandalf moves in much the same way as Sir Ian’s.

Before playing Wizards, Tall Paul was, believe it or not, a cop.

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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52078

[-Zer0-]

Holy fuck, want nao

[Cail]

can i has? whens it supposed to come out, i havent heard lately

[Vagrant]

can i has? whens it supposed to come out, i havent heard lately

If I remember right the first one should be December 2012? Might be wrong though.