Andy Serkis Expects A Trailer For ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ “Around Christmas Time”

In a recent interview with IGN, Andy Serkis revealed when we can expect a trailer for the first part of Peter Jackson’s two-part movie adaptation of ‘The Hobbit’:“There will be a trailer fairly soon, actually. Around Christmas time, I believe.” If that’s the case, there are two likely candidates for where that teaser might run– Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, opening December 16th, almost one year to the day from The Hobbit’s first release. Or — the more likely scenario — it will appear in front of Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin, a film produced by Peter Jackson that co-stars Andy Serkis and opens December 21st. While the decorated actor, who’s hoping to nab an Oscar nod for his work on this year’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was not sure of which film it would be attached to, he was confident we’d see one very, very soon. “It’s just around the corner,” he gleefully noted with a laugh.

Both Hobbit films are set in Middle-earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his film-making team brought to the big screen in the fantastic blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar-winning ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.’ ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ has been pencilled in for a December 14th, 2012 release date. ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’ will hit cinemas December 13th, 2013.

Reprising their roles from “The Lord of the Rings” movies are Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey, Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, Ian Holm as the elder Bilbo, Christopher Lee as Saruman, Hugo Weaving as Elrond, and Andy Serkis as Gollum.  The ensemble cast includes the likes of Martin Freeman, who’s taking on the central role of Bilbo Baggins, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Sylvester McCoy, Bret McKenzie, Graham McTavish, Mike Mizrahi, James Nesbitt, Dean O’Gorman, Lee Pace, Mikael Persbrandt, Conan Stevens, Ken Stott, Jeffrey Thomas, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch and Aidan Turner.