Fri Dec 14^th

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Peter Jackson

Writer:  Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, J.R.R Tolkien (novel “The Hobbit”)

Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, James Nesbitt

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before The Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. The second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is to be released December 13, 2013, and the third film, The Hobbit: There and Back Again slated for July 18, 2014.