http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/jul/21/the-hobbit-peter-jackson-clipIf you're looking at the early coverage of the Comic-Con convention right now and feeling a bit jealous of all those chaps and chapesses in Aquaman and Wonder Woman outfits, here's a crumb of solace in the shape of Peter Jackson's latest video blog from the set of The Hobbit. It's exactly the sort of sneak peak that might have gone down rather well with the fans in San Diego, but the Kiwi director reckons he doesn't yet have enough footage of the film to put on a preview proper, so Comic-Con attendees will have to make do with a Hobbit panel hosted by fan site theonering.net tomorrow morning instead.
I think I'm right in saying that this video gives us our first look at Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis together in Gollum's cave, with the latter in a motion-caption suit. It looks like Serkis has easily slipped back into the wretched creature's slimy skin, but Jackson stops short of giving us a proper look at Freeman in action as Bilbo Baggins. After that, it's all about the dwarves, who come in a colourful array of shapes and sizes. In Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was a then-unknown Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords who found himself the object of fan lust after a three-second, non-speaking part amusingly dubbed Figwit (Frodo is Great
Who Is That?). This time round, you wonder if Aidan Turner, whom the video blog reveals has been nicknamed Sexy Dwarf by his comrades, will end up filling the pin-up gap as Kili. It certainly won't be Stephen Hunter as Bombur, who looks like Obelix from the Asterix comics.
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