SF Universe » The-Hobbit http://www.sfuniverse.com SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:31:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 McKellen to Reprise Gandalf Role http://www.sfuniverse.com/2008/04/30/mckellen-to-reprise-gandalf-role/ http://www.sfuniverse.com/2008/04/30/mckellen-to-reprise-gandalf-role/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 02:48:32 +0000 brian http://www.sfuniverse.com/2008/04/30/mckellen-to-reprise-gandalf-role/ Post from: SF Universe

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Ian McKellen has confirmed he will don his wizard’s garb again to play the role of Gandalf in upcoming movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit. McKellen told Empire Magazine Gandalf is not the kind of part you turn down.

Guillermo del Toro will direct two prequels to The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Peter Jackson executive producing. Filming is expected to start in 2009 with the first movie coming sometime in 2010 and the sequel in 2011.

These movies are a veritable license to print money for the New Line Cinema/MGM Studios partnership. I know I’ll see them both 2-3 times. More than that if they’re as good as I expect them to be.

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]]> Another year is at an end, so I thought I’d take a look back at some of the Sci Fi stories that made the news this past year. We lost a couple of the greatest Science Fiction authors, several classic Sci Fi shows and movies were remade and JJ Abrams was the man of the year with both Star Trek and Cloverfield rating high on the buzz meter.

Let’s start at the very beginning. . .

JANUARY

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Pan’s Labyrinth earns six Oscar nominations making it the most nominated Scifi/Fantasy film

James Cameron set to direct Avatar

Lily Munster, Yvonne De Carlo, passes away

Smallville “Justice” pre-screened online

New Line in regard to the litigious Peter Jackson’s involvement with The Hobbit, “It will never happen during my watch.” (Wanna bet?)

Click to see the events of February and March.

 

FEBRUARY

 

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Fox confirms remake of the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still

J.J. Abrams will direct Star Trek XI

Kevin Smith helms CW’s Reaper

Whedon quits Wonder Woman

Fans lobby to save Carson Beckett

 

MARCH

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US Postal Service unveils Star Wars stamps

300 conquers the box office

George Lucas talks Clone Wars the animated series

Third Stargate series “Universe” said to be in the works

 

Come back tomorrow for Part Two of our look back at 2007

 

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