‘The Hobbit’ Trilogy Extended Edition Heading To Theaters This Fall
If you thought you were done withPeter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation ofThe Hobbit, think again.The Hobbittrilogy will be returning to theaters this fall, but in the longerextended editionformat that until now has only been available on home video.
Hit the jump to find out when you’re able to catchThe Hobbittrilogy extended edition theatrical release!
Far Away Entertainment(viaTheOneRing.net) revealed plans forThe Hobbittrilogy extended edition coming to theaters, which will be happening on a few different nights, beginning onOctober 5th, one month before theThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Extended Editionis slated to hit home video on November 3rd. Here’s the event information:
For fans who don’t want to spend half a day in a movie theater, showing each movie on a different night is probably a smart move to get the maximum number of people in theaters for these event screenings. However, it’s not clear if the showings will be on consecutive nights or spread out over the month of October.
The website where this information comes from lists anOctober 13thdate underThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Extended Editiontitle as well, as does AMC Theatres. So this event could easily be spread out over three days between October 5th and October 13th, but we’ll have to wait and see how it goes. We also don’t know which theater chains will be showingThe Hobbittrilogy extended edition just yet.
Since one of the most consistent complaints withThe Hobbittrilogy was that the movies were too long for a book that doesn’t have enough meat to fill three of them, seeing the extended editions of each movie isn’t exactly high on my to-do list. And this is coming from someone who saw all three extended cuts ofLord of the Ringsin theaters in one day.
For those curious, here’s the extended edition running times for each movie:
So each extended edition ofThe Hobbittrilogy adds anywhere between 13 minutes and 30 minutes to the movies, which isn’t quite as epic of an event asThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy extended edition. Still, for hardcore fans of Peter Jackson’s second journey into Middle-Earth, this will likely be something fun to do this fall.
Will you go seeThe Hobbittrilogy extended edition in theaters this fall?
