Director Peter Jackson made a last-minute title change while editing the final Hobbit film, which, until now, had been referred to by the studio as There and Back Again, to the un-Tolkien-like Battle of the Five Armies.Rico says it's another film he won't be seeing, and only delays Martin Freeman's return to the Sherlock franchise...
In choosing the new name, the director of the Lord of the Rings is completely eschewing author J.R.R. Tolkien’s original name for his fantasy book, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Jackson split Tolkien’s book into three films, with the first titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the second The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The studio has been referring to the third film as There and Back Again until now. Jackson explained the name change in his Facebook post:
“There and Back Again felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo’s arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But, with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced; after all, Bilbo has already arrived “there” in the Desolation of Smaug.
An Unexpected Journey grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide, but The Desolation of Smaug only brought in a little under a billion, according to Box Office Mojo. Though the returns were huge for both movies, the franchise still saw a decline this past holiday season. Perhaps Jackson and Warner Bros. (one of the studios behind the Bilbo Baggins trilogy) hope that the grander name The Battle of the Five Armies will do better at the box office.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is set to release in December of 2015.
24 April 2014
Movie review in advance
Eliana Dockterman has a review in Time of yet-another Hobbit movie:
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