[Movie] The Hobbit confirmed - with a twist

Holm was able to play the younger Bilbo in the prologue well enough, and if I recall Bilbo wasn't exactly young when he went on his original adventure.

The way the announcement reads to me sounds almost like they're doing a "Hobbit" movie based on the book and a "Hobbit 2" that comes afterwards, which seems rather odd.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Hobbit 2 may be a creative license approach of bridging the gap between the LoTR Trilogy and the first Hobbit movie... but I'm nowhere familar with Tolkein's stuff to say for sure or not.

There's enough in Tolkien's legendarium for a full movie about stuff that was happening at just about any point in his timeline. Or maybe they're going to embellish the film with some of that stuff (like Gandalf's attack on the Necromancer) and bloat it up to two films' worth.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by russ

Dude is nearly 80 years old. Do you think he would be able to handle this? I mean, they would have to resort to a stunt double every time Bilbo has to move faster than a snail's pace. Do we really want that?

They did it with Christopher Lee in LotR and Star Wars, so it can be done. They used scale stunt doubles for the younger hobbits half the time anyway.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.