Le Seigneur des Anneaux / The Hobbit #4

Peter Jackson to Receive Walk of Fame Star on December 8

Director Sir Peter Jackson will receive his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony in Los Angeles on December 8, 2014. Photo credit: Getty images, via the New Zealand Herald.
Sir Peter Jackson will receive his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony on December 8, 2014. As reported in the New Zealand Herald, the Kiwi director has “scored prime real estate on Hollywood, with his star sitting outside the Dolby Theatre, the home of the Academy Awards ceremonies.” Ana Martinez, producer of the Walk of Fame cermonies, said of Jackson’s work: “His groundbreaking and award-winning films are part of the legacy of larger-than-life, Hollywood-style entertainment that is beloved the world over.” The announcement that Jackson would receive a star was made in June 2014 (see the Middle-earth News story here).

Jackson’s guest speaker for the event will be Andy Serkis, known to fans of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as the iconic character Gollum. Serkis also served as Jackson’s second unit director for The Hobbit films. Other LOTR and Hobbit cast members expected to attend the ceremony include Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, and Elijah Wood.

Director Jackson and the cast will be in Los Angeles following a flurry of premiere events for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the last installment of the Middle-earth franchise. Confirmed premieres include the world premiere in London on December 1, a French premiere in Paris on December 4, the Canadian premiere in Toronto and a Mexican premiere in Mexico City on December 6, and a special screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies at Comic Con Experience, São Paulo, Brazil, on December 7. Warner Bros. has not yet officially announced details of premieres in the United States.

The article in the New Zealand Herald can be found here.

Ian McKellen sur le Hobbit : "ce n'est pas nécessairement la fin du voyage"

Ian McKellen, actuel interprète de Gandalf dans les adaptations cinématographiques de Tolkien a confié à la BBC que Le Hobbit ne signifiait pas forcément que la Terre du Milieu ne serait plus jamais vue au cinéma. Explications.

Davantage de Gandalf dans la Terre du Milieu au cinéma ? Alors que Le Hobbit : la Bataille des cinq armées vivait son avant-première mondiale lundi soir à Londres, Ian McKellen a donné une interview à la BBC. L'acteur, qui incarne le magicien gris depuis Le Seigneur des anneaux et Le Hobbit, a déclaré au média britannique :

Peter [Jackson, NdlR] m'avait dit en 2001 que c'était la fin, que tout était fini. Et voyez où nous en sommes 13 ans plus tard. Donc je ne pense pas nécessairement qu'il s'agisse de la fin du voyage".

Soit Sir Ian McKellen a des informations inédites sur l'avenir de la Terre du Milieu au cinéma, soit il ne ferme tout simplement pas la porte à de nouvelles aventures issues de la Comté, du Rohan et de Lacville. Plusieurs oeuvres de Tolkien n'ont pas encore été adaptées sur grand écran, notamment le Silmarilion, qui donne des informations sur l'histoire de ces territoires.

Ceci pourrait servir de bases à de nouvelles franchises, mais le problème est double : les droits cinématographiques du Silmarilion n'appartiennent pas à Warner, et Peter Jackson rêve de pouvoir enfin réaliser autre chose que les adaptations de Tolkien.

En revanche, quid d'aventures 100% inédites dans la Terre du Milieu ? La question reste entière. McKellen lui, est visiblement prêt à tout.

Peter Jackson Says THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Extended Cut Will Include Around 30 Minutes of Additional Footage

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies doesn’t even come out for another two weeks, but Peter Jackson is already making plans for his extended edition of the film.  Steve is currently at The Hobbit press conference in London where Jackson just revealed that there will be an extended cut of the film on the Blu-ray with around 30 minutes of additional footage.  The extended edition of An Unexpected Journey clocks in at 183 minutes long (13 minutes of additional footage) and the extended cut of The Desolation of Smaug is 186 minutes long (25 minutes of additional footage) so when the time comes to marathon the entire The Hobbit trilogy, we’ll be spending about 543 minutes in Middle Earth, which is actually significantly less than the Lord of the Rings extended trilogy’s 680-minute grand total.
Hit the jump for more on Jackson’s plans for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies extended cut.
Jackson may already know about how many minutes he’s adding to the theatrical cut of the film for the extended addition, but he does still need the time to actually put the thing together.  Jackson noted that this should take him around four or five months to get done after he returns home.  Assuming that happens at the end of the month, he should have The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies extended cut complete in the middle of 2015.