Titelwijziging voor The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Volgens de website TheOneRing.net gaat de derde en laatste The Hobbit-film een andere titel krijgen. Dat is nu ook officieel bevestigd. In plaats van The Hobbit: There and Back Again heeft New Line Cinema besloten de titel te veranderen in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Boeklezers zullen meteen weten waar de titel naar verwijst. In een reactie liet regisseur Peter Jackson weten:

“Our journey to make The Hobbit Trilogy has been in some ways like Bilbo’s own, with hidden paths revealing their secrets to us as we’ve gone along. “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”.

When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate.

And so: “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” it is.

As Professor Tolkien intended, “There and Back Again” encompasses Bilbo’s entire adventure, so don’t be surprised if you see it used on a future box-set of all three movies. Before then however, we have a film to finish, and much to share with you. It’s been a nice quiet time for us—Jabez and I happily editing away in a dark cave in Wellington—but those halcyon days are quickly coming to an end. It will soon be time to step into the light. Expect to see and hear much about The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in the coming months.

Vervolgens ging Jackson in op de Extended Cut van de vorige film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug:

And there’s also The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Cut, which we’re in the process of finishing, with over 25 mins of new scenes, all scored with original music composed by Howard Shore.

Oorspronkelijk zou Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit-trilogie een tweeluik worden. Uiteindelijk kozen Jackson en Warner Bros./New Line Cinema ervoor om er een trilogie van te maken en werd The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) de tweede film in de reeks. Wat waar is zal de tijd uitwijzen. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies draait vanaf 10 december in de bioscoop.