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It’s official: Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis (Gollum), Elijah Wood, and Cate Blanchett are all returning for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, scheduled to commence shooting next month in New Zealand, the festering pus fart of the south seas.

More actors are expected to sign on for the two-part [ugh] Peter Jackson film in the near future, including Christopher Lee as Saruman and Ian Holm as an older Bilbo Baggins. [ComingSoon]

Oh joy, six more hours of hobbitry.  That damned kiwi must’ve seen its shadow.  Anyway, Wood and Blanchett will reprise their roles as Frodo and Galadriel, respectively, this despite neither character appearing in the book.  I can only hope the Tolkienites have someone like Red Shirt Guy who can give Peter Jackson a DRESSING DOWN MOST THOROUGH at the next LARP convention.

Reprising her role as Frodo Saggins?  You guessed it, your mom.

Fear not, New Zealand, being the setting for Peter Jackson’s hobbit movies shall continue to be the only thing your adorable little backwater is known for.  Peter Jackson’s anger over The Hobbit laboUr issues always seemed like a classic middle-man freak out.  The biggest tantrums always come from someone who says they’re doing it on someone else’s behalf (always the celebrity’s assistant before the celebrity), probably because that way they can whine as much as they like, all the while claiming it’s actually someone else who’s the demanding one.  That seemed to be Peter Jackson’s role in all this, getting mad on behalf of the studios.  But WB’s people finally showed up to do their own negotiating, and surprise surprise, everything’s fine.

Prime Minister John Key announced [!!!] tonight that The Hobbit movies – a $670m project – will be made in New Zealand.
Government ministers  and Warner Bros executives have been locked in negotiations all day.
Tax rebates will be changed for Warner Bros, which will mean up to an extra US$7.5m per movie for Warner Bros, subject to the success of the movies. The Government will offset US$10 million of Warner Bros’ marketing costs as part of the strategic partnership. New Zealand will also host one of the world premieres of the Hobbit movies.
The govt. and WB agreed to work together in a “long-term strategic partnership” to promote New Zealand as both a film production and tourism destination,” said Mr Key.
“My Government is determined to use the opportunity that the Hobbit movies present to highlight New Zealand as a great place to visit, as well as a great place to do business,” he said. [NZHerald]

“Dude, did you see that log those two hobbits were buttf*cking on? That’s in New Zealand!”

“Oh my God, bro.  I wanna smell the hobbit buttf*ck log.  We should totally go there!”
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We’ve all marveled at MGM’s utter inability to get their sh*t together vis a vis The Hobbit (and by “all” I mean you, me, and three other nerds).  Just last week we heard they hadn’t even greenlit the project.  Now comes word that MGM’s delays have cost them their director, Guillermo Del Toro (Mexican Peter Jackson).  Del Toro will continue to co-write the screenplay while they look for a new director.  Del Toro and producer Peter Jackson broke the news themselves on the film’s official site, but the gist of it is that Del Toro hates New Zealand, and couldn’t suffer those harelipped, sheep-kissing bumpkins for another second, not that anyone blames him.

“In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming “The Hobbit,” I am faced with the hardest decision of my life”, says Guillermo. “After nearly two years of living, breathing and designing a world as rich as Tolkien’s Middle Earth, I must, with great regret, take leave from helming these wonderful pictures.”

“We feel very sad to see Guillermo leave the Hobbit, but he has kept us fully in the loop and we understand how the protracted development time on these two films, due to reasons beyond anyone’s control – has compromised his commitment to other long term projects”, says Executive Producer Peter Jackson. “The bottom line is that Guillermo just didn’t feel he could commit six years to living in New Zealand, exclusively making these films, when his original commitment was for three years.”

“New Line and Warner Bros will sit down with us this week, to ensure a smooth and uneventful transition, as we secure a new director for the Hobbit. We do not anticipate any delay or disruption to ongoing pre-production work”.

I look at living in New Zealand the same way I look at teaching special ed, or being a nurse for old people.  Lots of respect to the people who can do it, but no thanks.  Plus, Guillermo Del Toro is Mexican.  That has to be rough down there. I went to a Taco Bell in Sydney once and when I ordered a taco, and it came with mayonnaise.  MAYONNAISE. ON A TACO. And that was in Australia.  I can only imagine their oafish, lazy-eyed cousins in New Zealand trying to make one.  They’d probably put tree bark on it.

Oh, internet, why can’t I quit you?  So this is video of a young gentleman doing a dead-on impression of Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, reciting the theme song of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.  I can’t think of a time when I’ve typed a dorkier sentence than that, and I write about Tron. I swear, I didn’t want to like it.  But the more I resisted the more captivated I became.

Also, dude, the line is, “I got in one little FIGHT and my mom got scared,” not “fright.”  And it’s “yo, home to Bel Air,” not “your home’s in Bel Air.”

Unless… the misquoting was deliberate, because that’s how he thinks Sir Ian McKellen would’ve messed up the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air... Oh God, I’ve wasted my life.

[via OhHaveYouSeenThis]