We’ve had a pic of director Peter Jackson on The Hobbit sets, and there’s been an image of the cast together at a press conference, but now the first proper pictures from The Hobbit have arrived, with Martin Freeman in his costume as Bilbo Baggins, and Ian McKellen looking wizardy once more as Gandalf.
The images debuted on EW.com, and Peter Jackson has quotes to go with each one. Here’s what he had to say about the pic above, ‘He fits the ears, and he’s got some very nice feet. “I think he’s got the biggest hobbit feet we’ve had so far. They’re a little bit hard to walk in, but he’s managed to figure out the perfect hobbit gait.’ See what Jackson had to say about the other images under the pics below.
The Hobbit: An Expected Journey is release December 14th 2013, with the second movie, There And Back Again, coming a year later.
Peter Jackson On Ian McKellen: ‘He’s in fantastic form. In a way, his role in The Hobbit has more technical difficulties than Lord of the Rings did, because he has scenes with 14 smaller characters – obviously the dwarves and the hobbit are shorter… I remember saying to him [laughs], ‘Look, this isn’t Waiting for Godot or King Lear. The Hobbit. This is the real thing.’
Peter Jackson on the shoot: ‘There’s no way you can pace yourself for shoots like these, When we were going through the schedule for The Hobbit, I felt a terrible drop in my stomach when I saw that we’d be shooting for 254 days. We’re only 12 days short of The Lord of the Rings even though we’re only doing two movies. When I saw that, I had to sort of pick myself up off the floor and carry on.’