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The second film was retitled The Desolation of Smaug and the third film was titled There and Back Again in August 2012. [102] On 24 April 2014, the third film was renamed The Battle of the Five Armies .
The Hobbit was originally planned as a two-part film, but Jackson confirmed plans for a third film on 30 July 2012, turning his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] According to Jackson, the third film would contain the Battle of the Five Armies and make extensive use of the appendices that Tolkien wrote to expand the story of ...
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies or The Hobbit: There and Back Again, a 2014 film; There and Back Again, A Hobbit's Holiday, a part of the fictional manuscript Red Book of Westmarch; There and Back Again, a 1999 novel by Pat Murphy, retelling The Hobbit as space opera; There and Back Again: A Memoir, a memoir by actor Sean Astin, who ...
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 ...
The Hobbit films were produced back to back, like The Lord of the Rings films. Principal photography for The Hobbit films began on 21 March 2011 in New Zealand [21] and ended on 6 July 2012, after 266 days of filming. [22] Pick-ups for An Unexpected Journey were filmed in July 2012 as well. [23]
He considered helming a Hobbit film and a Lord of the Rings prequel film in 2006, [127] before deciding to produce two films based on The Hobbit for a director of his choosing. New Line suggested Sam Raimi to direct, but in 2008, Guillermo Del Toro was chosen to direct a two-film adaptation, produced by Jackson and co-written with Walsh ...
The Japanese-language version of There and Back Again won the 2002 Seiun Award for Best Translated Novel. [3]The New York Times described it as a "delight", lauding Murphy's "deceptively casual Tolkienesque prose" and noting her allusions to Alfred Jarry, and proposed that it would serve as an "entertaining romp" even for readers unfamiliar with the source material. [4]