"The Hobbit" movie finally gets the greenlight

[Abby Normal]

Casting and preproduction can officially start and filming starts early next year. Great news for fans of LotR movies and JRR Tolkien.

Will be celebrating tonight with several pints of Green Dragon Ale and a wiff of the Ol' Toby!!

[mklhawley]

Casting and preproduction can officially start and filming starts early next year. Great news for fans of LotR movies and JRR Tolkien.

Will be celebrating tonight with several pints of Green Dragon Ale and a wiff of the Ol' Toby!!

Awesome! It's time to re-read it again.

Mike

[Garza]

Yay!!!!

[Scorpio]

Get your Hobbit-on

" Hooray, Mr Gandalf sir......hooray!".
Who is playing Bilbo?. The actor who plays him should be nerdy but sturdy, and funny but a little melancholy. Lets hope they dont shoot it in NZ again, as the Shire looks like Tubby-land when it should look like the Cotswolds. It is a shame Kenneth Williams is dead, because he would provide an audacious voice for smaug.

[The Good Michael]

I was at Bag-End and at the production studio in June. Despite being in limbo, I assure you that production has been going on year-round on the movie sets and costuming. I can only assume that the filming should be somewhat quicker because of this.

Mike