The Hobbit to be filmed in the UK?
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Martin Freeman has been cast as Bilbo Baggins, and apparently due to industrial action in New Zealand, they are looking at alternative filming locations, UK Included..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604...
thatone1967 said:
Martin Freeman has been cast as Bilbo Baggins, and apparently due to industrial action in New Zealand, they are looking at alternative filming locations, UK Included..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604...
I read that as Morgan Freeman and got confusedhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604...
ewenm said:
thatone1967 said:
Martin Freeman has been cast as Bilbo Baggins, and apparently due to industrial action in New Zealand, they are looking at alternative filming locations, UK Included..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604...
I read that as Morgan Freeman and got confusedhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604...
Was a bit like "Eh?!"
grumbledoak said:
davido140 said:
Weren't locations in middle earth based on places around the UK when Tolkein wrote the books?
The Hobbits were the English, the Shire the Home Counties. Mordor was Basingstoke.whirligig said:
Einion Yrth said:
They'd struggle to 'cast' the misty mountains in the UK. The pennines just won't do it.
I dunno - having driven through Glencoe the other day there are misty mountains aplenty.davido140 said:
Weren't locations in middle earth based on places around the UK when Tolkein wrote the books?
The English bits like the Shire were parts of where he grew up, and the goblins technology was the way industrialisation was moving through the Midlands. Doubt he lived near anything like the Lonely mountain or the Misty Mountains.edit, though I think the desolation of Smaug may also be connect to industrialisation.
Edited by Halb on Monday 25th October 09:58
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