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Alternate Trailer For THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Contains New Footage

Not much mind you! In fact it's just three brief new shots, but hey, we'll take any excuse to watch this again anyway. Check out this slightly different trailer for Peter Jackson's first Hobbit movie..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 8/4/2012
The new stuff comes in at..

0:23 — Bilbo’s reaction to Gandalf’s arrival
1:57 — Bilbo hiding behind a tree in Mirkwood
1:59 — Gandalf, the dwarves, and Bilbo running through a forest




So not much there, but it's something to tide us over while we await a brand new trailer, which Peter Jackson suggests we will be waiting quite a while for.

The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.

Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever…Gollum.

Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities … A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters December 14th.







Source: Via Bleeding Cool
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SmellofDuty - 8/4/2012, 5:34 AM
"Why make it a trilogy Peter?" "Because [frick] you! That's why! I'm Peter maffuuuukin Jackson."
BarnaclePete - 8/4/2012, 5:50 AM
I'm sure I will see it, but nothing shown so far makes me the least bit interested in see this movie. Really feel like the extended versions of then original trilogy is more than enough lord of the rings for me. This book is not very good and should only be one movie. Not dragged out into three.
Gigacrusher45 - 8/4/2012, 6:02 AM
It's natural for the book to be split into two movies. You see it clearly when reading it. And I love Lotr but even I'm iffy about a third one BUT Peter Jackson knows what's he's doing and there's enough information in the Lord of the Rings world that Peter Jackson doesn't have to start making shit up to fill space.

If anything he will just try to bridge the gap between the Hobbit and the Lotr more.
Super12 - 8/4/2012, 6:05 AM
@barnaclepete - in the words of Mr. Garrison, "you go to hell and you die!"

Haha ohhhh just kidding. But seriously how can you not be looking forward to this? Is 3 too many for the hobbit? Possibly. Are you a sad strange little man for not liking the book in the first place? Most definitely.
JatevinM - 8/4/2012, 6:09 AM
I can't wait to see this I'm pretty sure this movie trilogy will be another that I can sit through emersed in the world and the characters in pure awe.
AlexDeLarge87 - 8/4/2012, 6:09 AM
I came immediately when i heard the voice of Gollum. I missed that little fella. :P

Richard Armitage needs to play Dracula someday. He is pure awesome.
sKeemAn - 8/4/2012, 6:16 AM
3 movies is slot I could see him doing 2 movies but 3 is a stretch. Gollum is the shiznit can't wait for battle for middle earth again
goldenavenger77 - 8/4/2012, 6:17 AM
Seeing a cheerful grif comment makes my day.
FAtypeofguy - 8/4/2012, 6:18 AM
@shit grif
RorMachine - 8/4/2012, 6:23 AM
Ni idea how MORE Peter Jackson Tolkien movies could be a bad thing in anyone's mind..if you are a fan anyway of course. So the book doesn't SEEM to lend itself to 3 movies, hasn't he earned a bit of trust?
Ceejay - 8/4/2012, 6:47 AM
There is more story to The Hobbit than what's in the one book. Anyone who has read 'Unfinished Tales" by JRR Tolkien will know of the stuff that happens during the Hobbit dealing with the Necromancer (Sauron) and the white councils first attempt to deal with him during the Hobbit which is why Gandalf leaves them only to return later. There is also lots of stuff in 'The Quest for Erebor' dealing with how Gandalf came to realise he had to bring everyone together in the first place and why. And there is also the Backstory to the Hobbit concerning Thorin Oakenshields Father and how the Dwarves came to lose Erebor to Smaug the Dragon in the first place.

The Hobbit is a tale told only from ONE perspective, Bilbo's! A film like this has to have more than that so trust me there's more than enough material to dramatise into at least two movies let alone three.
UltimateSpiderman - 8/4/2012, 7:05 AM
Three seconds of new footage.
Ranger14 - 8/4/2012, 7:20 AM
"I can't wait to see this I'm pretty sure this movie trilogy will be another that I can sit through emersed in the world and the characters in pure awe.


I couldn't' agree more! I don't get all the complaints about three films. I see having a third film as a bonus and it means that there is too much they saw in the two films they were producing to do it justice.

Potential Spoilers below as to story lines for the trilogy















"The Battle of Dol Guldur...

In his statement on Facebook confirming the trilogy Jackson singles out The Battle of Dol Guldur as something he couldn't capture without breaking the book into three parts. This is the battle where Galadriel kicks a lot of ass. They fight orcs who ride werewolves and giant spiders, so yeah, awesome. But Galadriel just rips down the walls. It's impressive, and helps explain why everyone is so petrified of her awesome power in LOTR"

I'll take that any day!!

Source with other information as well:

http://io9.com/5931001/everything-peter-jackson-added-to-the-hobbit-++-with-proof
M6 - 8/4/2012, 7:46 AM
To be honest, I wasn't too thrilled with the idea of 3 movies at first but when they focus on the The Battle of Dol Guldur then it could work.

Or it's just Peter Jackson being his usual self of not being able to cut scenes so instead of extended versions there will be three normal length movies. lol
JatevinM - 8/4/2012, 7:46 AM
I cant wait to see Cate Blanchett kick some ass then
Syringe - 8/4/2012, 8:10 AM
This will be magical. Not on the scale of LOTR, but an amazing fantasy film nonetheless.
marvel72 - 8/4/2012, 8:26 AM
film of the year & by the sound of it the next two as well.
Super12 - 8/4/2012, 8:27 AM
Well put ceejay. PJ and his writing team have proven to know and respect the source material so well that I don't think anyone can be worried about a trilogy. At first I was hesitant but knowing that what he's adding is coming from Unfinished Tales, the appendices, and other Tolkein works pits my mind at ease. And that description of the Battle of Dol Guldor is awesome! I'm gonna have to go back and read unfinished tales now. I have no doubt PJ and co. will do a phenomenal job
Linta - 8/4/2012, 8:32 AM
another epic trilogy just like LOTR
NeoBaggins - 8/4/2012, 8:44 AM
People must be forgetting there are quite a bit of epic events in the book that will be killer onscreen. The dark orchard, the spiders, the goblin king encounter, the trolls, the transforming beast man, the battle. And thats without mentioning Smaug.
FoxForce5 - 8/4/2012, 8:48 AM
Can't freaking wait!
jj2112 - 8/4/2012, 8:56 AM
Don't care if you people who don't like are not going to watch it. Jackson already proved that a trilogy that was considered unfilmable could be done with excellent results. Oh, but I'm sure that Nolan would have done it better and any Nolanite would be happy if he had split The Hobbit in ten parts.
ckal - 8/4/2012, 9:07 AM
Ranger14-

I'm so excited to see that. But can we see Gandalf kick some ass? I mean come on! He has stated his is the most powerful being in Middle Earth, second only to Sauron. Outside of his fight with the Balrog, PJ hasn't let Gandalf do anything that impressive, and I will never forgive him for what he did to Gandalf when he faced off with the Witch King.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 8/4/2012, 9:15 AM
Well that was a waste of time.
GeekOfKrypton - 8/4/2012, 9:31 AM
@SmellOfDuty ... "Why make it a trilogy Peter?" "Because [frick] you! That's why! I'm Peter maffuuuukin Jackson."


This is a great way of doing movies...I wish the comic book houses would adopt this way of making movies.

Just thing about it? Peter Jackson makes three movies all at once and then release them one every Christmas. If Marvel did the same thing with the avengers or Warner/DC with a Justice League movie or Superman movie for that matter we could be seeing a whole lot better movies (maybe?) and our favorite superheroes on screen more frequently.

Then... the stories between movies wouldn't become disjointed and lack direction. They would make more sense.
CrimsonReign - 8/4/2012, 9:38 AM
@SmellofDuty

LOL, true!

This trilogy will be great!!
Oxbow - 8/4/2012, 10:39 AM
Agree with geekofkrypton. Cbm directors need to stop just making their little one-shot movies every few years, man up and commit to some epic film-makIng! Most comic books are like soap operas anyway, so it only makes sense to shoot several movies worth of material at once and release it in a stepwise fashion. That way there is continuity on the creative teams instead of different war machines and hulks and whatnot.

Most importantly, we don't have to wait 4 years just to find out what happens next in the story!
ralfinader - 8/4/2012, 11:09 AM
I have been waiting a long long time for this movie. Never thought it would come to be and not look cheesy until Jackson broke out the LotR trilogy. And to have filmed enough to make 3 movies out of the book kicks all kinds of ass. I am onboard, just hope they release fairly quick since they are done shooting.
StoneHex104 - 8/4/2012, 11:22 AM
For the people who make negative comments about this movie, then don't watch it, it's simple, you can just leave this link and let US - Tolkien Fans or Peter Jackson Fans - discuss what the movie is going to be about.

I think that the Trilogy Idea is just plain epic, the first movie will be about the beginning of the Journey and yes, including Gollum, ending with the Barrel Sequence, the Second Movie will be about Smaug and the Lonely Mountain, and Bard too, the Third Movie will be about the Battle of the Five Armies and Flashbacks leading to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, such as:

- Bilbo finishing the Book in Rivendell while Frodo arrives.
- Gandalf tracking Gollum.
- Balin's Death in Moria, thus leading to the Fellowship of the Ring.
- The Battle of Dale.

This will be the Best Novel Adaptation the world could ever witness.
worldbreaker - 8/4/2012, 1:59 PM
if peter jackson takes a shit on your dvd tray then you close it and press play because it's worth watching
SmellofDuty - 8/4/2012, 2:55 PM
@GeekOfKrypton I'm not hating! I'm actually kinda excited for this.
Ranger14 - 8/4/2012, 3:18 PM
SotoJuice@ He is referring to filming the movies all at one time. ;-)

I am also curious, who says the best film adaptation needs to be in portrayed in only 1 film? I wouldn't agree with that at all. The more detail you can get by filming more than one movie would mean it could be a much better adaptation, in my opinion. I was probably reading the Hobbit for the third or fourth time before many on this site were born. So, I consider myself to be a big Tolkien fan. It does't mean I can't be a Jackson fan at the same time. :-P
PapaMidnight - 8/4/2012, 4:49 PM
I'm still curious about what Guillermo Del Toro could have done with Tolkien's material. Oh hell, never gonna happen...
Godzillafart - 8/4/2012, 8:26 PM
TLOTR was like 9 nights of romance from Jackson, and one ass rape.

I hope he does a 10% better job on Hobbit.
Pooh - 8/4/2012, 8:58 PM
I think Peter Jackson once called himself a hobbit. I hope the dwarves aren't too hobbit-y.
GrayMatter - 8/4/2012, 9:29 PM
Really? What's with all the "If you don't like that it's 3 movies, then FVCK YOU, don't watch it!" comments?

I don't think it's such a terrible thing to express concern over the fact that they're stretching this story out. The Hobbit is a tight, fast-paced story. And even with the adding of extra material, stretching it into 3 movies seems like a lot.

Jackson did earn a lot of trust with the LOTR trilogy, but he lost a bunch of it when he made the super-bloated King Kong. I'm a huge Tolkien fan, so I'll probably be seeing the movies anyway, but I'm just worried that Jackson has forgotten that sometimes you need to cut scenes to make the story/movie better.

Now, that being said, I'm super-stoked to see the Battle of Dol Guldur on screen.
Godzillafart - 8/4/2012, 9:38 PM
@GreyMatter: I agree with 73.5% of what you said...but time will tell, Three movies are a lot...and Jackson did some stupid shit with the first trilogy.
GrayMatter - 8/4/2012, 9:44 PM
On another note though, I'm curious as to what they're allowed to film regarding the material found in the appendices.
I know that they don't have the rights to anything found outside of the Hobbit/LOTR books. So anything from The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, etc. is out. But at the same time, parts of those books are just more detailed and in-depth versions of the notes found in the LOTR appendices.

So are they then allowed to use that information? How does that work when you have the rights notes regarding the basic outline, but not the detailed version?

Curiouser and curiouser...
GrayMatter - 8/4/2012, 9:48 PM
^^ Should say "have the rights to the notes regarding the basic outline." Not "rights notes".

@Godzillafart - I'm curious as to what you agree and don't agree with. 73.5% is quite a specific percentage, so you now have me intrigued...
goldenavenger77 - 8/5/2012, 2:40 AM
Only time will tell, hope theres not to much "made up" shit in them though.

Making The Hobbit a trilogy will certainly line a few more pockets, good move.
OdinsMissingEye - 8/5/2012, 5:28 AM
@stonehex104

I have a feeling the first movie will end a lot sooner than the barrels, it seems more logical to end the movie sometime after Bilbo escapes from Gollum, perhaps after the eagles have rescued them from the wargs and goblins and send them safely back on their journey, or just after they meet Bjorn and are about to enter the forest.

Though I doubt the first movie will even get up to Bjorn as there is so much to cover in between bilbo and the dwarves leaving the shire and meeting him, it could even end just as bilbo meets gollum as the fight with the goblin king could turn out to be the main epic fight/highlight in the movie, and they might want to spread gollum out over two parts being that he is a fan favourite.

The journey through the forest and the encounter with the spiders, then meeting the elves and escaping from them in the barrels will make up the entire second film.

And the third movie will begin in rivertown and then smaug and the battle of five armies.
MobileMac123 - 8/5/2012, 6:22 PM
People please realize that the story of the Hobbit was based on the histories Tolkien created for Middle Earth itself, these stories are vast and deep. The Silmarillion was referenced all throughout the book, in this way Tolkien enriched his tale by hinting at the epic history he created as a foundation for his story. If you 'get' what the Hobbit is really about, illuminating and building on the ancient and profound, then you realize we're in for a serious treat.

What could result is a 3 part masterpiece, if you know anything about Tolkien you can only come the the same conclusion as Peter Jackson did, the only way to do this material justice is to give it room to breath and grow in the telling. Hopefully to round out this 6 part extravaganza if you include LOTR will be a 3 part trilogy of the Silmarillion's greatest story, Of Beren and Luthien, that would be something to see if they could get the rights to do it?
StoneHex104 - 8/5/2012, 9:52 PM
@SotoJuiceMan
First of all, how can you eve be sure that the Trilogies will flaw? Have you even read 'The Hobbit'? If you have, then good, but THAT doesn't give you power of the flaw statement, you don't even KNOW whether the Trilogy will cover up 'Patches' left in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, for example, how did Gandalf get to know Gollum? The Trilogy may not be a great idea, I can agree with you on that, but why not give it a chance? Think about it, if the Fans argued about the MOVIES that EACH had a BOOK, they argued that they didn't cover up HALF the Books, then why not give it a try on a Trilogy to give to ONE Book, in my opinion, I believe that it's a wonderful idea to use on a Book.

On the other hand, it's true that it may not be the Best Novel Adaption into a Film, (Sorry, I got out of hand on that one)

I respect your opinion, but please, don't be aggressive. Give it a try.

@OdinsMissingEye Your statements are quite true, but I believe that Mirkwood will be over in Movie One, so they can give more Screen Time to Smaug on Film Two, and more Screen Time to The Battle of the Five Armies on Film Three.

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