YOU GUYS THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST MOVIE EVER

[bloodyrosemccoy]

EEEEE!

EEEEEEEEEE!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

... I was going to post something coherent, like "Damn, I hear that music and I just go all high fantasy LotR-y again and pull out my own hobbit characters!" or "Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis are like old friends!" or "I will miss all the old characters!", but all I can muster is pretty much EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

So, uh, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, I guess. Who's with me?


Thanks to cougarfang for the link!

Comments

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Martin Freeman! :D :D :D When I first heard that a guy from Sherlock was going to be Bilbo I misunderstood; I thought it meant Benedict Cumberbatch* was going to be a hobbit. Which would've been odd, even though I've no doubt he could've pulled it off (he's played Stephen frickin' Hawking, yo!). Then I realised it was Freeman, and was all "oh, well THAT makes sense!" XD

If I were to put Cumberbatch in the starring role of the film version of a classic book I'd pick The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Hmm. I must remember that for when I'm a famous film maker who gets to do whichever film I want with whomever I like.



*Is that the best name ever or what?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

He is such a hobbit that when I heard it was going to be Martin Freeman, my first thought was, "Well, duh." Mostly since Ian Holm is too old to play Bilbo now.

I will have to start watching Sherlock ...

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

I've never really paid any attention to him before, and now he's all over the place all of a sudden.

Yes you do. :D It was shown on Swedish telly a while back, and at first I just thought "well, that was a nice way to spend a few hours", but I kept thinking about it, and the other week I realised I'd slipped into a new fandom quite without noticing it. XD Now I'll have to find the original books somewhere*, 'cos I know enough to realise there were a crapload of references to book details in the tv show, but not enough to catch all of them.


*I know they're available through the Gutenberg Project, but I still prefer to read stories on paper. *is old school*

[acrossthelake.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, motherfucker. (I admit when I saw who might be up to play Thranduil I nearly died. Because I am a terrible, terrible fangirl.)

[allicapri.livejournal.com]

Who, who?? Shit, I totally forgot about that part of The Hobbit. I shall add moar EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

He is a bit typecast in my head, though ... I keep picturing an elven king with froofy hair and red Converse sneakers. WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME.

[beccastareyes]

EEEEEEEEEE!

[allicapri.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYAYAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

I have been going EEEEEEE like a demented dolphin ever since I saw that video. Bag End! Rivendell! Ian McKellan! MARTIN FREAKING FREEMAN oh I love it so so much. I am feeling that same crazy excited feeling that I did when the LotR movies came out, and now I wish I still had that squee-ing Dom Monaghan icon I once had. :D

Have a Glorfindel instead. I know I'm never going to get my Fall of Gondolin movie, but still...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT? And for someone who obsessively watched the Making Of stuff in the DVDs, I was almost as excited for the behind the scenes stuff to resume. I almost shrieked when they cut to Andy Serkis getting motion-capture makeup. THE BAND IS GETTING BACK TOGETHER!

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

Oh, I want to watch all the Making Of things on the extended DVDs again. Just to see Dom and Billy goofing around again... There is nothing more adorable than goofy hobbits.

[michellerz.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Also, holy crap, Peter Jackson lost a lot of weight!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was surprised, too. I hope this means he is healthier!

(I have a photo on my computer of Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee in full costume walking through the woods, with Peter Jackson in a pink shirt and shorts walking next to them. This gave rise to the "Wizard Bob The Pink" stories I still trot out around here from time to time ...)

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[booksnchocolate.livejournal.com]

I MAY HAVE JUST PEED A LITTLE. OH MY GOD, EXCITE EXCITE EXCITE! COMMENCE FANGIRL MODE~

;ASLDFJKA;LSKDJ;LASKDJ;LASDJ ♥ ♥ ♥ THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LINK

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

I wants it!

Pfff, Ian was all 'Is that a camera? But I don't have any lines? What'd you go and ask me a question for?'

Also, who dressed the second bloke who gave a speech?(From his looks, I'd say he plays Bilbo, and I think I've seen him in something before, just can't remember what.) That's just... wrong.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I know, he's like WE'RE DOING BUSINESS HERE.

Yeah, that's the dude playing Bilbo, wearing a silly outfit, but at least he's wearing clothes. I know Martin Freeman from the most recent Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie--he plays Arthur Dent, and does the whole movie in a bathrobe. That's better than the other thing I know him from, Love Actually, in which he plays The Naked Guy. (Everyone else knows him from Sherlock, which I have yet to watch to find out if he wears clothes in that.)

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've seen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Love Actually, but I've never really paid any attention to Freeman before. It's like with Christian Bale; I didn't realise I'd seen (and loved) him in a whole lot of films until Batman Begins came out and my brother told me that Bale was in Mio in the Land of Faraway, a film I'd loved as a kid.

[daiq.livejournal.com]

And he is adorable in Confetti!

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Martin Freeman? I haven't seen Sherlock, so I can only imagine Arthur Dent as a hobbit. Strange.

I'm still worried they're going to overdo this adaptation. Two films? There's not that much stuff going on in the book. Also, the guys playing Dwarfs are mostly topheavy action types. It looks like they're squeezing out the quirky charm of the book to go for the Darker and Edgier vibe.

[withoutawhy.livejournal.com]

You have my sword!

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[chairman-wow.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE is pretty much the only appropriate reaction, I think.

Though everyone I've shown this to so far has despaired about the casting of Martin Freeman, which I can't understand at all. He's awesome!