The Hobbit sequels get official titles

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema put much speculation to rest today by officially naming and dating each installment of Peter Jackson's upcoming big screen adaptation of The Hobbit.

The first installment has been christened The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and will hit theaters on Dec. 14, 2012. The second film shall be known as The Hobbit: There and Back Again and will debut on Dec. 13, 2013.


(Via IMdB)

On a related note: Peter Jackson, risking the wrath of the literary-adaptation gods, has announced that he has added his Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom to the cast of his Hobbit movies. Mr. Bloom’s character, the elf Legolas, doesn’t appear in J. R. R. Tolkien’s original Hobbit novel.

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