New Zealanders rally, not wanting to let go of the "hobbit" into another country

On Monday, October 25, a mass action was held in Queenstay, the participants of which set a goal - to convince Peter Jackson producer to shoot the film "Hobbit" in New Zealand, reports Newsru Israel .

Participants in the action held in Quinstown showed commitment to “hobbits ideas”: dressing up in costumes like Bilbo Baggins clothes, they kept posters with inscriptions: “New Zealand is Middle -earth”, “Ae, Warner, we are all brothers” and “We love the hobbits”.

It should be noted that the beginning of the filming of this fairy -tale film, in fact, is the prequel of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, is by no means a “fairy -tale” conflict. The New Zealand Actors Equity union demanded special privileges from Peter Jackson and Warner Brothers. After the producer refused compatriots, the trade union leaders declared the Boycot Hobbit. This boycott became the reason that Warner Brothers thought about transferring the filming of the picture to another country. “Next week, preparations for changing the shooting site will begin,” Jackson announced last Thursday.

Now the shooting options in England, Scotland, Ireland, Czech Republic, Canada and Australia are considered, but New Zealand does not live to part with a profitable franchise, the loss of which will entail, according to expert estimates, a loss of $ 2.3 billion. The Hobbit turned into a key topic for local media, members of the government pulled up to negotiations with Hollywood studios, and the Prime Minister personally gathered to meet Peter Jackson, who flew to New Zealand on Monday.

Last week, it became known that British actor Martin Freeman , who recently caused general admiration for Dr. Watson from the Sherlock series on BBC, will play the protagonist of Bilbo Baggins. The main of the gnomes, Thorin, will play Richard Ermitaj, the roles of Kili's gnomes and Fili will go to Aidan Terner and Rob Kazinski. Earlier it was reported that Ian McCellen will remain Gandalf, and Gollum - Andy Serkis, who also played in the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings.

Work on the “hobbit” began back in 2007, but due to endless trials around the rights to film adaptation, rental and revenue from the sale of related goods, which several film studios were drawn, the heirs of John Ronald Ruela Tolkin himself and Jackson himself, the preparation for filming was greatly delayed, and the requirements of acting guilds, with which the studios managed only to figure out only to sort Last week, and then not finally, additionally complicated the situation. The budget of the project, burdened with penalties and a payment for downtime, increased to $ 500 million, almost twice the cost of all three parts of the Lord of the Rings, which cost a total of $ 281 million, and helped out almost 3 billion. The hobbit can become the most expensive film in history, pushing the third part of the Pirates of the Caribbean, which costs the Pirates of the Caribbean. 200 million dollars.

In 2008, Hobbit was invited to shoot Guillermo del Toro, who worked on the script for a day and actually completed the preparatory stage. It was he who decided to divide the "hobbit" into two parts and remove it in 3D format. However, in May 2010, due to endless delays, the Spanish director decided to leave the project, and Jackson was left alone with the “hobbit” and financial problems of MGM ruining studio, which owns rolling rights.

The release of the first part of the "hobbit" is scheduled for December 2012. The second film, plotly associated with the events of the trilogy, according to the plot, which occurred several decades later, will appear a year later.

In the "Hobbit", written before the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings", Tolkien sets out the history of the appearance of the Ring of the Voinity among the hobbits. "Lord" is an epic about the destruction of the ring.