Too awesome to handle
We weren’t even expecting a third installment of The Hobbit not that long ago but now they’ve pushed back the release date for the, most likely, epic conclusion of the trilogy. The Hobbit: There and Back Again was originally due to be released in theaters July 18, 2014, but now it’s been moved to December 17, 2014. That means we’ll have to wait a full year after the premiere of the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, to see the final part. But it’ll be like old times again, waiting for the next Lord of the Rings film each December, even if the prequels haven’t gotten off to as great of a start. Why they’ve pushed it back I don’t know. Perhaps they felt that with X-Men: Days of Future Past opening on the same day we would be overwhelmed by Ian McKellen’s awesomeness and they just wanted to prevent any McKellen-related awesome-overdoses.
Disappointed about the date being pushed back? Don’t really mind? Just want to see Benedict Cumberbatch as a dragon? Let us know in the comments below!
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I knew they’d end up doing this, TBH. I was surprised when they set the July release date originally, this makes a lot more sense.
I’m with Valerie: I thought it was really strange that the third one was supposed to come out in the summer. Can’t say I’m surprised.
I honestly thought to myself during that party last weekend that there was no way they’d get any significant Oscar noms if the movie came out in the summer, so I was convinced they’d move it, since you know they expect to get them if it comes out closer to the noms themselves.