The Hobbit to be filmed in the UK?

[grumbledoak]

Matt.. said:

I think they should keep it in NZ

And they can save on make-up for the Orcs, once the rugby season is over.

[Halb]

ViperPict said:

Halb said:

ViperPict said:

Halb said:

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

No, Aberdeenshire!

No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_%28Middle-earth...

Absolute speculative Wikipedia nonsense. Tolkein never spoke of his inspirations for the locations. But he spent a lot of time in Aberdeenshire which has the rolling hills of the Middle Earth shire that home counties and the west Midlands don't. Word.

I think it is speculative to say it is Aberdeenshire, when everyone agrees it is the Midlands with a combo of Southern counties, especially the industrialised part.
"“The ‘Shire’ is based on rural England, and not any other country in the world.”"
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21172

Edited by Halb on Tuesday 26th October 17:56

Edited by Halb on Tuesday 26th October 18:07

[FourWheelDrift]

The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand after the government changed the law and gave MGM a cash incentive to film there.

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/655065/the_hobbit_...

[Halb]

FourWheelDrift said:

The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand after the government changed the law and gave MGM a cash incentive to film there.

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/655065/the_hobbit_...

Bugger. A mate of mine auditioned for this and didn't get the part, they wanted names, even for all the dwarves.

[ViperPict]

Look on IMDb - quite am impressive cast list, even for the more minot roles!

[Halb]

I know. I suppose they could do that with the success of LOTR, sad for bit parters!
There is no Beorn though, wonder who that i?

[Yertis]

Halb said:

I know. I suppose they could do that with the success of LOTR, sad for bit parters!
There is no Beorn though, wonder who that i?

Brian Blessed.

[Halb]

Yertis said:

Halb said:

I know. I suppose they could do that with the success of LOTR, sad for bit parters!
There is no Beorn though, wonder who that i?

Brian Blessed.

Must be a joke.

[ajprice]

James Nesbitt to play Bofur the dwarf, "a disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave dwarf".

I wonder if he'll have an Irish accent...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11674...

[FourWheelDrift]

ajprice said:

James Nesbitt to play Bofur the dwarf, "a disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave dwarf".

I wonder if he'll have an Irish accent...

....and be angry all the time.