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The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass and animated by Topcraft. The film is an adaptation of the 1937 book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien; it was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on Sunday, November 27, 1977. The teleplay won a Peabody Award; the film received a Christopher Award.
The Hobbit is a 1967 fantasy animated short film by Gene Deitch [2] and the first attempt to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit (upon which it is loosely based) into a film. [ 1 ]
It takes its name from The Return of the King, the third and final volume of the novel, and is a sequel to the 1977 film The Hobbit. The special aired on ABC on Sunday, May 11, 1980 after a legal challenge filed by the Tolkien Estate and Fantasy Films was settled. [1] Both critics and fans gave The Return of the King a lukewarm welcome. [2]
In 1977, Rankin/Bass produced an animated version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. It was followed in 1980 by an animated version of The Return of the King (the animation rights to the first two volumes were held by Saul Zaentz, producer of Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation The Lord of the Rings).
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was released on DVD, 3D Blu-ray and Blu-ray on 7 April 2014 in the United Kingdom and on 8 April 2014 in the United States. [211] An Extended Edition containing 25 minutes of additional footage and original music [ 212 ] was released on 3 November 2014 in the UK, and on 4 November 2014 in the US.
Ronal the Barbarian (2011, animated) Your Highness (2011) The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Epic (2013) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
The 1967 short animated film The Hobbit was the first film production of The Hobbit.It was directed by Gene Deitch in Czechoslovakia.American film producer William L. Snyder obtained the rights to the novel from the Tolkien estate very cheaply while it was still largely unknown, with the proviso that he produce a "full-colour film" by 30 June 1966, and immediately set about producing a feature ...
After Tolkien's death in 1973, Bakshi started an "annual trip" to Medavoy, proposing that United Artists produce The Lord of the Rings as two or three animated films, [47] with a Hobbit prequel. [12] Medavoy offered him Boorman's script, which Bakshi refused, saying that Boorman "didn't understand it" and that his script would have made for a ...
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