Movie Updates

Two movie updates that were missed a few days ago on the summer movie list.    

1. Cowboys and Aliens - July 29


A movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford based on a 2006 comic book (now called a graphic novel) created by Scott Rosenberg. You would think that any alien smart enough to build a spaceship would be smart enough not to take on James Bond and Indiana Jones together. Can't wait for this one to come out.    

2. The Hobbit - December 19, 2012

So this is not a movie for this summer, but the first videos are coming out about the new Peter Jackson production of the Hobbit.  Starring Martin Freeman (of Love Actually and Hot Fuzz fame) as young Bilbo and many of the cast of Lord of the Rings (Ian Mckellen, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee), it started filming in New Zealand March 21.  Rumor has it that Leonard Nimoy will be the voice of Smaug the dragon.   


The video shown here reminds us what a journey watching the Lord of the Rings movie was and is an exciting beginning to the next year and a half of anticipation.   

In a related article, someone from Forbes magazine uses the information from the book The Hobbit and today's metal prices and decides that Smaug's treasure lair is worth about $8.6 billion, which puts him 7th on the Forbes Fictional 15 list of richest fictional people (creatures) below Jed Clampett and Scrooge McDuck, but higher than Bruce Wayne and C. Montgomery Burns.